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Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pricepoint-better-be-right dept.

Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."

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  1. Re:Sounds about right, but what about the network? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    It won't be a phone. So... what network can handle a jump of 10 million nodes? THE INTERNET. And that's all that really matters.

  2. Re:How many times do I need to say this by nine-times · · Score: 5, Informative

    Obligatory: http://www.misterbg.org/AppleProductCycle/

    It explains everything you need to know about the Apple rumor mill.

  3. They have sold many more than that by MikeMo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dude, they sold 10 million iPhones in the first full year of sales. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_simple.svg As for iPods, the total number sold is over a quarter billion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_quarter.svg

  4. There's a map for that, and it doesn't say CSIM by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    Simple, a cellular network card slot so that you can choose your carrier.

    In Apple's home country, the carriers with decent coverage (Verizon and Sprint) use the CDMA2000 stack instead of GSM. Like GSM/UMTS, CDMA2000 allows carriers to put the account info on a removable card. But unlike GSM/UMTS, CDMA2000 doesn't require a removable CSIM, so the carriers just tie the account to the internal memory of the handset.

  5. Re:Ten million? by Zey · · Score: 2, Informative
    Swift2001 (874553) wrote:

    Do the British say, "One April 2010?"

    Essentially, yes, they do: "First of April, 2010. Twentythird of July, 2009." As do Australians and AFAIK all the English speaking nations apart from the US. The US really is out on its own when it comes to a lot of this stuff. (Anyone with any sense uses ISO format though because the numbers sort better in a list.)