That Was Fast: iPad Outselling Apple Desktops, iPod « Velocity – Forbes.com
HED: that was Fast: iPad Outselling Apple Desktops, iPodDEK: Apple’s newly-launched tablet computer is tearing up the sales charts.What’s the biggest difference between Apple and Microsoft’s businesses? Maybe this. While it took a decade for Microsoft to build up a business around its X-Box big enough to make a serious impact, Apple has done the same, with the iPad, in just three months.Apple’s iPad tablet computer is now officially one of the Cupertino, California-based company’s biggest businesses. Apple sold 3.2 million iPads over the course of the quarter to take in $2.1 billion in iPad and iPad related products and services. the iPad is already 13.8% of Apple’s quarterly revenues. That’s a bigger chunk of Apple’s business than desktop computers and iPods, two businesses that once defined Apple.www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq310/
What’s the biggest difference between Apple and Microsoft’s businesses?
Maybe this: while it took a decade for Microsoft to build up a franchise around its X-Box big enough to make a serious impact, Apple has done the same, with the iPad, in just three months.
Apple’s iPad tablet computer is now officially one of the Cupertino, California-based company’s biggest businesses.
Apple sold 3.27 million iPads over the course of the quarter to take in $2.1 billion in iPad and iPad related products and services, the company said as it announced earnings for the quarter ending June 27 Tuesday.
That makes iPad is already 13.8% of Apple’s quarterly revenues.
That’s a bigger chunk of Apple’s business than desktop computers and iPods, two businesses that once defined Apple.
That Was Fast: iPad Outselling Apple Desktops, iPod « Velocity – Forbes.com
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