News - Apple reports intimidatingly strong earnings – iPad now bigger than Mac

[HEXUS]

The gadget giant easily beat expectations with record sales of iPhones and iPads.

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[hermano pequeño]

Ouch! Makes you wonder if the is any benefit to Apple in keeping a "lower cost" iPhone on the market. I went to the UK recently and saw even students going around with iPhone 4s.

iPad sales: I just can't make sense of it... well done to whomever saw the demand because I still can't see how I could fit one into my life, even if I had £500 that I wanted to get rid of.

[Scott B]

Ouch! Makes you wonder if the is any benefit to Apple in keeping a "lower cost" iPhone on the market. I went to the UK recently and saw even students going around with iPhone 4s.

iPad sales: I just can't make sense of it... well done to whomever saw the demand because I still can't see how I could fit one into my life, even if I had £500 that I wanted to get rid of.

I think the iPad - even more than other Apple products - is benefiting from the great developer ecosystem Apple has built. You could argue that a tablet is only as good as the apps developed for it and the iPad seems to have got off to a flyer (no pun intended HTC) on that one - just check out this story: http://mobile-device.biz/content/item.php?item=31050.

The consumer model seems to be primarily for casual surfing, gaming, and social networking around the house, but it looks like businesses like it as a presentation and collaboration tool.

Through its ecosystem and, presumably, good developer tools, Apple has made the touch interface mainstream, and that's what I think underpins the success of the iPad. That, and "must have shiny-shiny" of course.

[usxhe190]

Apple is good at building ecosystems and getting people to participate in this ecosystems.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Shouldn't it be iPhone bigger than all other Apple products and services combined??

It does seem to generate more revenue than all their desktop,laptops,tablets and iPods combined.

[aidanjt]

I think the iPad - even more than other Apple products - is benefiting from the great developer ecosystem Apple has built. You could argue that a tablet is only as good as the apps developed for it and the iPad seems to have got off to a flyer (no pun intended HTC) on that one - just check out this story: http://mobile-device.biz/content/item.php?item=31050.

The consumer model seems to be primarily for casual surfing, gaming, and social networking around the house, but it looks like businesses like it as a presentation and collaboration tool.

Through its ecosystem and, presumably, good developer tools, Apple has made the touch interface mainstream, and that's what I think underpins the success of the iPad. That, and "must have shiny-shiny" of course.

Indeed. The iPad pretty much inherited the iPhone's 'ecosystem' by adopting the same architecture and environment. Little is needed to be done to 'port' iPhone apps to the iPad beyond GUI tinkering.

[Scott B]

Shouldn't it be iPhone bigger than all other Apple products and services combined??

It does seem to generate more revenue than all their desktop,laptops,tablets and iPods combined.

That's been the case for a while