Apple sells over 300,000 iPad tablets on US launch day

[Recursion]

Flash may not be the future, but the iPad is not the future, the iPad is now.

[Firehorse]

Steve says flash isn't in the future, wonder if he's right.

maybe he is, but it is certainly in the present and catering to the future but not the present day is not a clever idea. Thats like producing a game for the playstation4 before its been created and before the ps3 has become obsolete. Or creating a game that can only be run on the very newest graphics card, without a way of playing it on older ones - it loses you money and sales and annoys consumers.

[HotelUser]

Flash isn't the best language for complex web based games. That would be JAVA.

[Firehorse]

Flash isn't the best language for complex web based games. That would be JAVA.

I was using games as an example of a product, not to do with how they actually work.

[Jonster]

Not sure if this has been said already, as there are 4 pages and frankly just reading the first page provoked this response, but the iPad is targetted towards business (wo)men and those on the go that need to attend to documents, calendars - just general computer/work stuff... not your average teen on a Habbo forum. So I think you will find that 300,000 is indeed a very likely figure.

[AgnesIO]

I'm sue Windows 7 sold more than 300,000 copies on it's first day.

And 'Flash isn't the future' - Windows 7 isn't the future, PS3 is not the future - peope still use it as whether it is the future or not its things that are around now that MAKE the future. Another prime of example of some of the idiotic things Mr Steve Jobs says.

[Recursion]

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/05...u-their-slate/

Screw the iPad. HP's Slate runs Windows 7, is ~$600 (a bit more expensive than the iPad, but when you think about it... HP actually believe in a thing called exchange rates for us british! )

[HotelUser]

I'm sue Windows 7 sold more than 300,000 copies on it's first day.

And 'Flash isn't the future' - Windows 7 isn't the future, PS3 is not the future - peope still use it as whether it is the future or not its things that are around now that MAKE the future. Another prime of example of some of the idiotic things Mr Steve Jobs says.

Why is it always you that turns threads into Microsoft vs Apple arguments? :rolleyes:

taken from another thread where I was told not to do what you're doing.

[xxMATTGxx]

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/05...u-their-slate/

Screw the iPad. HP's Slate runs Windows 7, is ~$600 (a bit more expensive than the iPad, but when you think about it... HP actually believe in a thing called exchange rates for us british! )

That Slate sure does look sexy. Can't wait for that to be released!

[AgnesIO]

taken from another thread where I was told not to do what you're doing.

Ok sorry..

I am sure people went to watch Harry Potter on the first day than bought an iPad.

Since there is a new rule meaning microsoft and apple are not allowed to be used as examples (even though they are the two biggest tech sellers in the world..)