Kinect is Selling 2X as Fast as the iPad

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18 points·pathik··11 comments

A big part of this is the timing of the release; video game systems are always big sellers before the holidays. Anyways, the difference in price as well as function makes this a pointless comparison.

Plain old grocery store eggs outsold the iPad 20,000 to 1! Meaningless.

It's literally Apple-s to oranges.

I think the point is that it's a catchy headline pointing to a page that has 27 banner ads.

The more ads people install, the more people install AdBlock, and then to keep up revenues they roll in more ads.

I expect in the near future that it will be 99% ads, 1% content, and that only 1% of the visitors will come in without adblocking of some sort.

I think it is a fair comparison based on this statement:

"The iPad was crowned the fastest-adopted consumer electronic device ever last month, stealing the title from the once-coveted DVD player."

Irrelevant. They aren't even similar products, similarly priced, or in similar markets.

For something 30% the price of the very cheapest iPad, I'm not surprised.

Why should this be surprising, given most of the Kinect users are owners of X-box ? iPad on the other hand is a stand-alone device. Why does everyone keep comparing Kinect to iPad/iPhone etc ?

If Microsoft opens the drivers and people (hackers?) find many other ways to use it, it will sale even faster.

There are 44 million 360s in the field. The hacker-to-player ratio on Xbox is never going to be significant.

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