More ipads sold per week than all mac models put together

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disolitude said:
How long do you think they can sustain these kinds of sales?

I mean the product is new, its hot...and the Apple user base will buy anything Apple. But once the stylish, artists and unemployed students get their Ipad fill...how will this thing sell?

Anybody?

I'm sure it'll slow down, just like the iPhone and iPod have, amirite? (did you know that 2008 and 2009, were the best years in the iPod's history? In both years, Apple sold ~54 Million iPods)

Aaaaaaaany second now. Also the Wii will stop selling as soon as the Gamecube owners have bought it. Remember that argument? I do.

I know you're not being this absurd, disolitude. I'm just pointing out a logical error that I think hugely inhibits people's ability to reasonably prognosticate the future: because they don't personally see what's so great about something, they assume its sales are a consequence of hype or marketing, and that it must surely die off.

Well, I don't really care about Apple products either. I'm typing (and playing) on a PC as  I speak, and my Phone + MP3 player are a Motorola/Google Droid. If anything, I'm slightly anti-Apple, because I'm afraid they'll encroach on Nintendo's space, a company's whose products I genuinely like. And I really, really like Google. I try not to be a fanboy of faceless corporations, but I'm close with them.

But that doesn't stop me from recognizing Apple's  popularity, and coming to the logical conclusion that the iPad, like the iPhone and iPod before it, probably aren't a flash in the pan. Just because I don't personally care very much about the products doesn't change reality.