But because he made details, people and stories out of thin air – particularly the ones that plucked the hardest on our hearts – he has ultimately trivialised the real human suffering that does exist in the factories of a developing country. His play was meant to be a serious, considered, sobering look at the ugly, hidden side of how our Apple devices are made. I have no doubt that a significant part of Daisey’s intentions were noble in creating the show, particularly when he was starting - but all that was wasted, when, in the pursuit of a perfectly dramatic story, he started to make things up. That’s what I think Mike Daisey has done with his spinning of the truth and lying in creating his monologue ‘The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs’. Taking a noble cause one step forward, and then two steps back. The new iPad launched to very positive reviews from the press (which mentioned the device’s Retina display, LTE, and battery life as great selling points) and long lines around the world. If these initial are of any indication, it seems like Apple’s strategy with multiple, international rollouts a week from each other may lead to the biggest iPad launch to date.Įarlier today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company saw “record” sales for the new iPad in its opening weekend. The iPhone 4S has been the Apple’s biggest success with the iPhone line so far, reporting over 37 million units sold in the last quarter. This Friday (March 23), the device will go on sale in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.įor comparison, the new iPad has sold 3 million units in 4 days, while the iPhone 4S sold 4 million units in 3 days last October (the 4S went on sale in 7 countries on October 14, 2011). It is worth noting, however, that the original iPad and iPad 2 went on sale exclusively in the United States on Day One, whilst today’s iPad numbers include sales and pre-orders for the United States and 9 more launch countries from March 16, 2012. And now, 3 million iPads sold in four days – from March 16 to March 19.Īnd then, of course, the company kept pushing the iPad quarter after quarter with new software, new apps, and a new version in March 2011, achieving these results:.2 million iPads were sold in less than 60 days.Apple sold 1 million iPads in 28 days after the device went on sale in April 2010. To put these numbers in perspective, let’s take a trip down Apple’s iPad memory lane again and remember how iPad sales evolved over time. “Customers are loving the incredible new features of iPad, including the stunning Retina display, and we can’t wait to get it into the hands of even more customers around the world this Friday. The new iPad is a blockbuster with three million sold―the strongest iPad launch yet,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. Read moreĪpple just confirmed with a press release they have sold over 3 million iPads since the device’s debut on March 16. Basil does this by leveraging the inner strengths of iOS, and it adds its own implementation of bookmarklet/parser to make the process of saving recipes from the web effortless and intuitive. Available today on the App Store, Basil is a fresh take on “smart recipe books” that lets you to keep your recipes neatly organized in a clean interface that gets out of the way, but it’s also smart enough to facilitate the process of cooking better.Ī recipe app should have a clean interface with text on a white background, large buttons you can easily tap, search features, and timers. It was with particular interest that I tested Kyle Baxter’s new iPad app, Basil. Whether it’s for browsing recipes or keeping an eye on what the final results should look like, the iPad’s form factor and wide array of apps, coupled with the excellent Safari and Facebook apps, allow for a fantastic experience when browsing recipes, checking out friends’ recommendations, and saving instructions and photos for future usage. In there’s one thing (among others) that I have noticed while using the iPad extensively over the past five months, is that it makes for an excellent “kitchen screen” while cooking.
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