It was a historic landmark that Apple has reached last Friday, 28 days after the company started selling the iPad. It seems they’ve managed to sell 1 million iPad units in under a month, a feat that even surpasses the iPhone sales (first 1 million units sold in 74 days).

People are going nuts over this 1.5 pound, 0.5 inch thick device with 10 hours of battery life, so at this point demand exceeds supply. Developers have created over 5,000 new apps for the tablet, that’s also known for running most of the 200,000 iPhone apps on the App Store.
It’s true that this device is thinner and lighter than any other laptop or netbook out there, but it does have its flaws: lack of Flash support, lack of multitasking (for now), battery life is not exactly what you hoped for, plus OS limitations, lack of a camera and the product’s fragile nature. What pushes people to buy so many iPads?!
[via apple]

 

Apple is breaking record after record, so after quarters of successful iPhone sales, we’ve now learned that the company is America’s number 1 phone maker, surpassing Motorola. This was done by shipping 8.75 million iPhones this winter, compared to Moto’s 8.5 million units.

Palm comes in third, in the distance, with 408.000 webOS handsets sold in the last quarter. In case you’re wondering what happened to RIM, the BlackBerry maker is a Canadian company, so it’s considered a foreign firm, in spite of selling more units in the US than Apple.
What we should mention is that it took Apple only 3 years to become the largest US handset maker, which is very impressive feat, one that can only be threatened by Android and the likes of Motorola and Dell. We don’t see Palm rising from the ground too soon, specially since they’ve just been bought by HP, but the resulting company could conquer the market with a revolutionary product, still.
[via Electronista]