iPad sold 500,000 units after one week. That's a little more than 70,000 units a day. And if you consider that in the five days after the weekend, Apple sold 200,000 units. That's 40,000 a day. Not quite so impressive. I'd bet that all the Netbooks combined sell at least 40,000 units per day.

Doing some quick googling, I get guesstimates of yearly total netbook sales between 22M and 30M. And since 40k units a day is around 15M a year, iPad is selling within a 2x factor of ALL netbooks sales. Still think it's a flop? ref

Of if that measure doesn't work, how about total monetary sales values? 40k per day at $600 per unit is around $9B, which is around 9% of all portable PC sales in 2009, and around half of all mini-note and ultraportable pc sales ($18B). Still think the iPad's a flop? ref

BTW, the Motorola Droid (considered a pretty good success for Motorola during the first few months of sales sold around 1M units the first 74 days it was out (which went for $200, less than half the price of an iPad). That's around 14k a day since you seem to be a bit math deficient.

Name one cell phone, computer, or similar device that sold 300,000 times over on the first day that was considered a failure.

The interesting thing is that Apple sold 300,000 units in it's first weekend--this is after the device had been available for pre-order for one month. So it took Apple one month to sell 300,000 units--about 1,000 units a day.

So name one cell phone, computer, or similar device that sold 300,000 units in one month that was considered a success.

Strawman alert! So which is it- 40k a day or 1k a day? Up above, you deride the drop from 70k/day to 40k/day. Now it's suddenly 1k/day (before people could even try it out, mind you). I fail to see how you convert pre-sales volume into foward sales volume. Especially when the full 3G version isn't out for sale AND sales are US only.

But that's okay. Just sit in your corner, hug your iPad, and keep repeating: "The iPad is successful! The iPad is successful!" It'll make you feel better.

I'm sure you're feeling better too. It's all good.

Good points and I totally agree with your points on the validity of the First Sale law and it's necessity. However, you're missing a crucial point. Pystar not only modified OSX, (as is allowed for personal use), but it sold this modified derivative product, which is not protected by the First Sale law. You can use a modified product, but you can't sell. That's why Pystar lost, and lost big. I personally think that these and other copyright restrictions are too strict, but it is pretty clear in this case (summary judgement and all that) that Pystar broke it.

By that same logic, the iTunes store should have been crushed by rivals (amazon, walmart, emusic et al) in 2007. Guess what? Didn't happen that way. I think that android will gain marketshare, but most of it will be from Symbian and WinCE Mobile (or whatever they're calling it this year). Apple will also gain market share at an equal or greater pace, fueled by the advantage of the app store. Focused competition will beat apple (remember Palm vs Newton?), but unfocused, dispersed competition is going to have a hard time beating Apple at their own game.

2) The reason you didn't get it right is because you're a crappy engineer, not because it "doesn't fit together that well".

3) Wiring without the tape-stabilizers can easily come loose due to jarring due to use and expansion/contraction due to temperature changes. It looks cheap to morons but costs a shitload more to tape all that stuff down.

4) "clearly built for cost" and "not well engineered"? Anything more substantial than your say so?

5) The "wiring overall inside is cheaply done". Again, you know this because?

6) Wow. Your point being?

The HP is engineered to be as cheap to manufacture as possible. The MacBook Pro was engineered for many parameters, but it obviously was not engineered for the lowest cost.