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Barefootsies · 05-03-2010, 08:57 AM

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Apple announced on Monday that it has sold over one million iPad devices over the internet and in its retail outlets, following the Friday release of the 3G version of the device, which can connect to the internet via cellular data networks in addition to WiFi.

Naysayers who jokingly derided the device as a large iPhone with no phone function have been proven wrong about people not wanting exactly that ? a testament to the powerful allure of these devices, which sit in a new category of computing somewhere between the smartphone and the netbook.

?One million iPads in 28 days ? that?s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,? said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. ?Demand continues to exceed supply,? he claimed, ?and we?re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.?

This 28-day figure doesn?t seem quite as impressive if you correlate the 3G iPad to the iPhone, and the WiFi-only iPad to the WiFi-only iPod Touch, because the iPhone and iPod Touch reached the combined one million mark about as fast as the iPads did. In addition, Apple said it shipped 500,000 units of the WiFi-only iPad within the first week, so sales have slowed since then, relatively speaking, even with Friday?s introduction of the 3G model.

Regardless, this announcement marks a big vote of confidence by consumers. Nearly one out of every 300 Americans already owns one of these devices.

That isn?t just good news for Apple, but also for myriad companies hoping to capitalize on the iPad?s potential for e-books, interactive music, magazines, (non-Flash) video, games, and so on. Its fast arrival at this milestone is an early sign that iPad adoption will reach levels where designing custom apps for the platform ? and gambling on whether Apple will approve or reject them ? makes sense on a business as well as an aesthetic level.

The iPad might just be a giant iPhone, but size matters when it comes to many potential applications. For instance, who wants to read War and Peace on an iPhone?

So far, Apple says, iPad users have downloaded over 12 million apps from its App Store and over 1.5 million e-books from the iBookstore, via WiFi or wireless data connection. In the U.S., the latter means using either AT&T?s high-speed 3G network or T-Mobile?s slower 2G network with a trimmed-down SIM card.

After demand for the iPad apparently outstripped supply, Apple delayed the device?s European rollout until the end of May.

So far, Apple has sold nearly 90 million iPhone OS devices worldwide, and recently announced its iAd platform, which will allow developers to monetize free applications.

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