Thread: Impact on iPad?
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Old 06-24-2010, 11:01 AM   #61
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
If 38% of folks bought an iPad with the intention of reading -- does it take away that that's not the ONLY thing they intend to do with it?
Only when you try to use that for basing your future prognostications upon:

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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
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.
- emphasis mine

7 or 8 million people using iPads primarily for reading? by the end of next year?

You seem to have some reason to believe that this initial sales spike is going to continue unabated at current levels for the foreseeable future - at least for the next 18 months or so - care to share?


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