NumBytes 45: Apple iPad Rules

Apple sold 28.7 million iPads and iPad2s since debuting the tablets. The rest of the industry supplied a blizzard of me-too tablets with a wide variety of price points and features, but the response has been lackluster at best. As the Wall Street Journal found out, rivals don't even mention sales, just shipments. On that basis, Apple shipped 9.3 million iPads in the second quarter 2011. Motorola shipped 690,000 tablets since February 2011 and Research In Motion shipped 500,000 since April 2011.