{"id":12747,"date":"2010-05-31T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-31T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T14:05:00","slug":"apple-sells-two-million-ipads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/12747-apple-sells-two-million-ipads.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple sells two million iPads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple said it had sold 1.4 million iPads since it went on sale exclusively in the United States on April 3.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the iPad &#8212; a flat, 10-inch (25-centimetre) black tablet computer that Apple claims will revolutionise the industry &#8212; went on sale in Australia, Japan, Canada alongside Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Demand in the United States was so strong that the company pushed back the global roll-out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/forumdisplay.php?143-Apple-Mac-amp-iPhone\">Apple<\/a> head Steve Jobs said in a statement that clients all over the world were now able to experience the iPad and seemed to like it as much as the company itself.<\/p>\n<p>Apple was very grateful for their patience and was now doing everything in its power to make sure there were enough iPads for everyone, Jobs added.<\/p>\n<p>The iPad goes on sale in nine additional countries in July, including Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Apple dethroned software giant Microsoft as the largest US technology company in terms of market value.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?236889-Apple-sells-two-million-iPad-tablet-computers\"><strong>Apple iPad sales<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple, now the largest US technology company by value, said Monday it had sold two million of its iPad tablet computers, outdoing even the iconic iPhone on its launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}