Will iPad Sales Beat the iPhone? Who Cares?

19.03.2010
Conflicting reports have surfaced for the last week about how well is selling, how well it will sell, and whether it'll make more of a dent in the market than the iPhone's debut.

Most recently, unnamed sources that "hundreds of thousands" of iPads have sold since pre-orders began , and one source thinks the iPad's three-month sales will . But hold on: A bookie (no, seriously) gives of the iPad beating the iPhone to one million units sold.

I don't really care for those predictions. Here are a few reasons why:

Yes, the apples and oranges argument. An iPhone requires a two-year service agreement with AT&T and fits in your pocket. An iPad doesn't require any monthly service and doesn't need to leave the house if you don't want it to. These are totally different products.

By all means, compare the , or the , but measuring the iPhone against the iPad is like comparing sales of Sony laptops and Playstation 3s.