At its event in California, Apple has just announced that it has sold 100 million iPads — a milestone the company reached just two and a half years after launching the original iPad. The company may have been saving up to drop the big number, since it has stayed quiet on actual “record” sales numbers in the past, but there’s still no indication of how the sales are distributed across the several iPad models. Tim Cook says that the company’s tablet “has attracted a lot of attention,” and that “the iPad accounts for 91 percent of web traffic.” He’s also sharing good news across the board today: Cook says that Apple “sold more products in the June quarter than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire PC line.”
Apple has sold 100 million iPads
is a senior editor who has obsessed over headlines and internet speeds since 2011. He previously worked as an advocate for the National Park System.
Check out the replay of our live coverage right here:
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Most Popular
Most Popular
- Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
- Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
- Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits
- This Ghost in the Shell keyboard makes me want to activate the hundred spidery robot fingers inside my regular fingers
- Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices
