Apple iPad
The much awaited Apple’s iPad was released in the U.S. market earlier this month and sold more than 450,000 pieces in less than a week. Apple is claiming iPad as something more than a smartphone, positioning it between a mobile phone and a PC. Whether the users also feel the same about it is a million dollar question. According to an online poll by Mashable, more than half the respondents preferred iPad over a netbook.
iPad is also expected to pose a stiff challenge to existing E-readers like Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader etc. According to a prelaunch survey, 40% of would be buyers of an E-reader prefer iPad over Kindle (28%) and Nook (6%). Apart from being a mobile phone, iPad is also a potent device for surfing the internet.
Portable gaming is another possible popular application of iPad giving Nintendo and Sony a challenge in their domain. According to Apple’s Steve Jobs there are 3500 iPad specific apps available out of the total of 185,000 apps available across all devices for download. A total of 3.5 million apps and 600,000 iBooks have already been downloaded to iPads since launch. Overall iPad is expected to stir the mass market for tablet computing capable of handling a no. of apps catering to a wide audience.
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