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Originally Posted by boswd
so if more coffee makers sell this year than iPads should we all bow down to the All Mighty Mr. Coffee?
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No one need bow down to anybody. You don't have to like or hate a piece of technology to understand it's place in the market. Doesn't matter if someone likes their kindle just because the iPad exists. They are going to be affected by the iPad regardless. Agency pricing -- wasn't brought on by Apple, but without the iPad - Amazon would have never given in. And now we are seeing the price drops on the devices themselves.
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can you guys honestly tell me that the large majority of people who are buying the iPad is for the E-Reader?
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We are discussing this survey, and it said 38%. That's not a majority. But with 3 million sold in 80 days, that's 1 million folks who have an ipad primarily for reading -- and there will be 3 million such folks by the end of the year by that same number. And 7 or 8 million by the end of next year.
This notion that the iPad won't matter to ebooks because it's customers don't read the way kindle customers do....is somewhat true. Device for device, who'd doubt that the average kindle reader is going to read more books? But there's going to be FAR more iPad's sold -- and soon Android tablets.
eInk devices were already half the price of the cheapest iPad's --- and they STILL felt the need to drop their prices.
Shoot, if I preferred eink readers, I'd be quite happy about the iPad.
Lee