I can't believe how cowardly Jobs is acting about the antenna issue, he is now claiming that all smartphones have this problem, draging HTC, Samsung and Blackberries into this mess. Design >>>>>>>>> Quality it seems. At least be a man and admit that there is an issue and that it should have been fixed in the testing stages.

I know its off topic, I just can't stand the way they operate right now.

I just searched, and I did not see "profit," or "Income," on there. High sales are good and all, but they don't mean jack if those sales don't turn profits. Gross Margin was also down (given, not my much). It's all about Net Income.

i don't mind apple, but i hate their fanboys

Read this.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/07/distimo-ipad-stats/

iPad is used for gaming, but it is just a price comparison with something which was criticised for being overpriced at launch

Income was posted in the thread at $3.25 billion. Sorry that I missed it in my highlights. It's also worth noting that Apple has deferred the cost of providing cases to all iPhone 4 buyers until next quarter, so you can wipe off $175 million of that income.

Gross margins are down because Apple is taking a slimmer margin than normal on the iPad to ensure that they seize the tablet market. The iPad's MSRP is only twice as high as iSuppli's estimated cost to manufacture, as compared to the iPhone which sells for over three times iSuppli's estimate.

One final point of interest. Apple's greatest growth these past few quarters has come in Asia. For a long time, Apple's strength was focused in North America, but now the majority of Apple's revenue is coming from overseas.

It's all a matter of what people value. Turns out that they value a portable media center with a large screen, excellent internet functionality, and an intuitive interface more than they value a stationary media center with incredible processing power, expensive and immersive games, and an interface optimised for gaming but poorly suited for anything else.

Probably the biggest value difference is that it is much easier to extend the iPad's use cases with software than it is to extend the PS3. Consoles need to get a few killer apps that appeal to millions of people to drive the platform. Ease of development and distribution on iOS devices allows for hundreds of killer apps that appeal to thousands of people.

A stationary PC and a laptop are much better suited for internet use and media than an iPad as well, better sound and picture output, much larger screens, much faster internal components and internet connections, a lot more stable, a whole lot more storage room and all that for roughly the same price.

Personally, I cannot fathom what possible use anyone can find of an iPad if they own a smartphone, an MP3 player and a laptop already (and those who buy the iPad generally do own these things), it just seems redundant.

Its just it does so little that cant be done on another device. I suspect the vast majority of iPad owners also have iPhones, so they are paying this money to replicate the experience on a slightly larger screen

I have a Windows 7 laptop, a Macbook Pro, an iMac 27 inch, an iPhone 3gs, a Samsung Galaxy and a ipod classic.. so I didn't really need an iPad.. but sitting on the couch or lying in bed just reading some websites, reading some mails between watching TV, update my facebook stuff, looking stuff up quickly without booting up one of my computers after having dinner which my girlfriend cooked with the help of my ipad.. it's.. yeah.. it's for lazy people, who likes convience... sure it's a bit overpriced but it's just f*cking handy.. I love it.. I don't think I have ever shut it off while I had one..