Estimate: Apple Will Sell 48 Million iPads in 2012 - John Paczkowski. Whether it debuts in February or in March, Apple’s hotly anticipated iPad 3 will likely raise the bar for its rivals, and perhaps further buttress a postulate we’ve discussed here before: Consumers don’t want tablets, they want iPads.
The only question is one of degree. Recent reports have added 4G LTE connectivity and a quad-core processor to a rumored spec list that already includes Siri voice recognition, better cameras, a higher-capacity battery and a much-improved display with double the pixel density of the iPad 2. All of which sounds entirely reasonable, and certainly like the makings of a formidable successor to the iPad 2. Enough of one that analysts are already tweaking their sales estimates upward.
“We believe this significant refresh will likely help drive higher iPad sales and help further differentiate from arguably the only real competitor in the market, Amazon’s Kindle Fire, and not to mention the myriad of Android offerings out there,” says Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu. In The Race To 10 Billion Downloads, Apple Uncovers The Top All-Time Apps. If you had to guess what the top downloaded iOS app of all time was, what would you say?
You’ll probably get it. It’s an obvious one. It’s Facebook. Number two is fairly easy too: Pandora. But did you know that number three is the Google Mobile App? Steve Jobs' Apple Keynote By The Numbers.