Forrester Research Is Wrong About iPad Sales

Fortune wrote a commentary about a recent Forrester Research that seemed to indicate that iPad sales will plummet. Forrester Research predicted that only 3.5 million tablet computers like the iPad will be sold in 2010.

On June 22, published a press release on its website - Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days. If you believe the Forrester Research report, then Apple will probably sell another 500,000 iPads in the next 6 months. This doesn’t even take into account the other tablet computers that are on the market.

If anything, iPad sales are speeding up. As more people get a chance to use the iPad they tend to want one. I haven’t come across anyone that didn’t want an iPad. A lot of these same people aren’t sure what they would use the iPad for but they still want one.

I’m beginning to wonder if Sarah Rotman Epps actually used an iPad before she wrote her report. Her forecast for tablet computers is way off. Epps just doesn’t get it.

Use the iPad for a couple of hours. Read a magazine, surf the web, play a game and check the latest weather forecast, and then you’ll begin to understand why iPads are flying off the shelves.

Until you actually use the iPad, I don’t think you can really have an opinion about it that matters.

Posted in iPad at 8:46 PM