Advertising firm Chitika earlier this week rolled out a running tally calculating the number of iPads accessing the Internet via the device’s Safari browser based on unique hits to its network of advertisements. According to current tallies, over 500,000 iPads have now been sold.
In a blog post, Chitika research Dan Ruby notes that the company’s numbers have been registering significantly lower than official and estimated sales numbers, a phenomenon Ruby has attributed to some users not accessing the Internet. For example, by midday Monday, Chitika had registered nearly 270,000 iPads on its network, while Apple had already announced "over 300,000" iPads sold on Saturday with more sales obviously rolling in Sunday and early Monday. We’ve even heard that Apple may have sold over 750,000 iPads already.
We’ve also learned that the WiFi iPad may not be seen as primarily an Internet surfing device. With estimates of over 300,000 iPads sold on release day and perhaps as many as 700,000 sold over the weekend, that only around 40% are showing up on the Internet may imply that people are buying the iPad for the apps, and spending most of their browsing time in the App Store.
Read more: MacRumors.com
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wow, good news for apple, there are so many ipad fans all over the world!
Well, got the ipad, we can we can watch movies, enjoy favourite videos, read ebooks, play games, read news and so on. well, I think enjoy yourself with iPad will need many apps and tools, Here share a list of iPad apps and games to all, go to this iPad column: http://www.ifunia.com/ipad-column/index.html
and iPad video tools: http://www.ifunia.com/video-to-ipad-converter-mac.html