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Costa Rica Based Bookie
Betting Against iPad Success To That Of The
iPhone
Costa Rica based Youwager.com doesn't
believe that the iPad won't be as big as the
iPhone when Apple's new gadget makes its
debut. The online bookmaker says the odds
stacked against Apple's iPad reaching 1
million sales as quickly as the iPhone.
The iPhone went on sale in June 2007. It
took only 74 days to get to 1 million sales.
The iPad, which is basically a larger
version of the iPhone, without the "phone",
is set to debut on April 3, 2010 and the
bookmaker says it has only a 72% probability
that it will reach the same sales level as
the iPhone.
Youwager.com is taking bets on that.
“No matter what they put out on the market,
there’s going to be large sales, but with
this particular product, we don’t think it’s
as practical as the iPhone,” Brian Sanz, who
works on YouWager.com's wagering, auditing
and research development in San José, told
Blooomberg.
Apple has received thousands of iPad
preorders according to the Wall Street
Journal, citing that people's familiarity
with the matter as a marker.
Apple is betting on the fact that tablets
like the iPad are "emerging devices". Apple
expected more than 4 million iPads sold in
the first year.
However, that will all be up to the consumer
and how they take to the iPad, a product
that is not cheap compared to netbooks -
small notebook computers that easy to carry
on the go, with limited features like slow
clock speeds, snall hard disk, low ram
memory, etc. - that sell for under us$300.
The iPad starts at us$499, but can reach
$800 with the bells and whistles.
To date Apple has sold more than 42 million
iPhones.
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