The Warm Welcome For iPad2

Published:2011/3/15 3:07:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan From:SeekIC

As the iPad2 went on sale last Friday, the Apple speciality stores on both U.S. Coasts were crowded with people, which indicated that ipad2 has dominated the brand-new market it had created. There were more than 800 fans queued outside the Apple store on the Fifth Avenue of Manhattan before the launch, all hoping to be the first one to get this thinner, lighter and faster iPad2. A lot of onlookers gathered to watch the activity, and the long lines were a spectacle in themselves.The queue started to erupt as a staff threw open the doors at 5 p.m. and gave high fives to the first iPad shoppers in coast cities like Manhattan and San Francisco.

Apple created the tablet market single-handedly and proved it to be a huge success, which inspiring a wave of imitation. What we saw above just showed how the demand for Apple Tablet remains strong.

Wall Street predicts a strong start to the iPad2, similar to the iPad1, some analysts were even more optimistic.According to Brian White from Ticonderoga Securities, Apple could sell one million iPads over the weekend--almost reaching sales in their first month on the market last year. He also think this is will be a very strong launch.

The largest retailer of the world Wal-Mart announced it’s expectation to sell Apple iPad at about 2,300 stores all over the country. The Best Buy said in some of its outlets, the ran out of the tablet and its accessories just take less than 10 minutes. If the iPad2 will be available in more stores than the original model, no doubt that the device will outpace its predecessor at the very beginning. In addition to being sold at its own outlets in the United States, Apple decided to put the iPad2 on more shop windows even on the internet.

Compared with the first generation, the iPad2 is thinner, faster and with two additional cameras for video chat. The main chip of iPad2 is designed by Apple, other chips are from Broadcom and Texas Instruments, flash memory from Toshiba Corp.

This year, the sales of tablets are supposed to more than 50 million units this year, with Apple occupying 70 percent of the market. The iPad2 will hits store shelves in more than twelve foreign countries at the end of March. Apple is releasing the second version of the iPad before many of its counterparts have brought their first tablets to the market. Last year, Apple sold 15 million iPads and generated 9.5 billion dollars as well as had the tablet market largely to itself. The related integrated circuit is KTS181.

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