iPad Goes Platinum

Earlier today, Apple announced that it had sold a million iPads in the month since the original model’s release. But skepticism abounds! Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired punctures a hole in Apple’s press-release balloon by noting that “This 28-day figure doesn’t seem quite as impressive if you correlate the 3G iPad to the iPhone, and the WiFi-only iPad to the WiFi-only iPod Touch, because the iPhone and iPod Touch reached the combined one million mark about as fast as the iPads did. In addition, Apple said it shipped 500,000 units of the WiFi-only iPad within the first week, so sales have slowed since then, relatively speaking, even with Friday’s introduction of the 3G model.” And Awl pal Lizzie Skurnick is still curious about its utility to publishing, not to mention its bathroom-bound portability. [Pic via]