Yes that's the headline. The Ipad will become the fastest consumer product to reach 1 billion dollars in sales. This thing is selling like hotcakes. This type of devices has been available for years even decades but was never a hit. Only at this time and only after the magic touch of Steve Jobs did the slate type computers are flying of the shelves.
The Ipad is hitting the market at the right time. Let me explain why.
1) Faster internet connection available to many people. With this consuming content like movies, games, videos is just a zinch. Five or ten years ago this bandwidth speed was not widely available.
2) Faster chips, better hardware, cheaper devices. Five years ago this kind of devices would have cost much more that a full size laptop. Now they can be available much less.
3) Mobility. People want to have resources and content available anytime anywhere. With the Iphone introduced in 2007, people now realized that they need something that can easily and quickly access and connect to their content in the cloud. Yes laptops would do it but not as quickly and not as easily as the Ipad. Yes smartphones would do it but not gorgeously and beautifully on a bigger screen.
4) Apple magic. And yes only Apple could make and deliver this kind of magic. And you know what this started when the first Ipod was introduced in 2001.
So there you have it. The Ipad will not only be the fastest to a billion bucks but it will kill the netbook but not the notebook, except if that notebook cost the same as the Ipad.
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