Adopted

There was an interesting piece of news earlier this week, when an analyst from the firm Bernstein Research made the claim that the iPad had become "one of the most successful consumer electronic device launches ever," surpassing even the (likely estimated) 350,000 DVD players sold during that product's first year.

Once you start paying attention, you learn not to pay too much attention to what an analyst says (some of them predicted the iPad would be a dismal failure), but as anecdotal evidence goes, this is interesting:

Target started carrying the iPad just this week, and I was in one of the stores this morning (this was early this morning, before 9:00 AM), and during the five, maybe ten minutes I was there, one person bought an iPad, and another was just about to.