Just six months after the original iPad debuted (January 27, 2010), Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple tablets are already selling Mighty Macintosh computers . During the company’s fourth quarter revenue call, Jobs said Apple sold 4.19 million iPads over the past three months compared to 3.89 million MAC. The figures showed an improvement in the 3.3 million iPads sold in the 3.3 million iPads market that Apple sold in the first quarter of the iPad. By October 2010, the iPad became the fastest selling electronics device ever, breaking its previous record holder (DVD player) with a large margin.
The iPad continues to succeed. Without the Apple iPad, you can’t think about the tablet market. Apple is still a bestselling brand when it comes to tablets. The Cupertino giants are far outstriking the competition. As the latest Canalys reports, Apple iPad dominates the global tablet market with a 42% share
When Bill Gates said: There’s nothing on the iPad…
The iPad is also the “famous” wrong Apple gadget of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Bill Gates misjudged the possibility of an Apple iPad. A few weeks after the iPad’s 2010 launch, Gates rejected the device, claiming there was nothing Microsoft should pursue.
“You know, I have a great belief in touch and digital reading, but I think a mix of voice, pen and real keyboards – netbooks will become mainstream about it,” Gates said. “So I’m not sitting there and feeling the same way I did it on my iPhone. It’s a great reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I’m looking at.
Gates’ comments remind us of Steve Ballmer’s boring laughter in predicting iPhone and Gates’ own iPod failures, but proved to be inaccurate.
