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Originally Posted by FanIn80
It's common knowledge that the DVD player was the fastest adopted new technology. This guy isn't making it up. As for the Wii or NES thing, neither of them were the first ever home video game system.
The iPad is the first of its category, and it's been adopted faster than the first product in any other home electronic category ever produced. 18 million units in its first year (4.5 million per quarter).
CNBC, PC Mag, Cnet... These aren't just random blogs.
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If the qualification is that it is the first tablet device that doesn't suck to the point of being unusable, then yes it is the first. I think there are enough tablet PCs and large PDA type devices that exist that comparing this to a DVD player is a bit of a stretch.
Actually, with further thought, a DVD player is really just a combination of a CD player and a VCR. I guess the bar when defining a 'new' type of device is set rather low.
Doesn't mean the iPads numbers are not crazy good, you would have to be a fool to deny that.