iPad pre-orders start Friday
It's tough to predict how well Apple's iPad will sell -- and whether it will overtake Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's nook and other e-readers. But there certainly is a lot of curiosity on-line, judging by this week's Yahoo! searches. With Apple starting to take pre-orders on Friday, iPad searches have been running six times higher than those for Kindle and 14 times higher for the nook. Here's some info from Yahoo! on the searches:
-- Men made 60 percent of iPad searches (while women made 68 pecent of Kindle searches).
-- The top regions searching for the iPad are San Diego, Albany, and Los Angeles. (Top regions searching for the Kindle are New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.)
-- Searches for iPhone and “new iphone 2010 4g” are nearly 2.5 times higher than iPad searches.
-- In the Baltimore/Washington area, iPad searches are up 38 percent, and searches are 13 times higher than for the Kindle.
Comments
Don't assume those demographic stats are in any way accurate without knowing the full picture. Ever heard of Hotspot shield and other surfing privacy programs? Puts up a spoof address to avoid being subject to these privacy invasions. I could search for the Ipad and look like I am from the Chicago area.
Posted by: SXS | March 12, 2010 5:56 AM