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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Apple sold over 9 million iPads last quarter. How many tech-savvy people are there? Perhaps the situation in Germany does not mirror that in the US and UK.
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Good point.
I know that iMacs are a lot more common in the US than in Germany. A lot more people use Linux on their machines than Macs. The iPhone does a lot better, however other smartphone-manufacturers like HTC are more widespread.
I work in IT, so I am around a lot of tech-savvy people, but I know exactly two who own an iPad. Smartphones are very widespread in comparison (usually HTC) and - funny fact on the side - the iPhone-owners have Linux-computers at home, not Macs.
It's very possible that Germany is not a good iPad-market.
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Actually, I just tried to find any sales numbers for the iPad in Germany, without success. The only number I found was this:
http://tabletcommunity.de/6671/ipad-...er-konkurrenz/
According to that, Apple sold 160.000 iPads during the first month of its release in all of Europe (!). That's not that much considering that Europe is a market with about 500 million people. Apple probably has a lot more market standing in the US.