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Steve told us it’d be revolutionary, and if sales are the measure of a device’s success, then the iPad seems to be well on track to validating its creator’s bold claims. This past Friday, “just 28 days after its introduction,” Apple sold its millionth iPad. 1.5 million ebooks have already been downloaded to the device, along with 12 million apps. Steve Jobs has also taken time from his busy essay-writing schedule to remind us that that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve the milestone with the original iPhone, and demand for the “magical” slate continues to outstrip supply. Full PR after the break.

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Apple sells 1,000,000 iPads in revolution’s first month originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 May 2010 08:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Perfect last-minute gift for Mother’s Day–or ordered-well-in-advance gift for dads and grads. It’s new, not a refurbished, and it’s normally $200. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-20003956-58.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Cheapskate/a/p

An Android app from personal finance service Mint.com joins its iPhone counterpart, though neither lives up to the full-fledged site. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20003889-251.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Android Atlas/a/p

Nokia’s Ovi Store may still be seriously losing in the app war to Apple and Google, but something tells us Espoo’s betting on its new Ovi App Wizard to help it gain some ground. Putting mobile software creation in the hands of the code-illiterate, the auto-generated application wizard lets anyone — and we mean anyone — turn any RSS or Atom feed out there into an app, and publish it to the Ovi Store. Surprisingly, it really is that simple. While we could have made a personal app with our Twitter and Facebook feed, we went ahead and finally made an Ovi Engadget app by simply going to oviappwizard.com and going through the four step process — we put in all three RSS feeds, uploaded our logos, tweaked the colors and hit publish. According to Nokia it should only take 24 hours for the app to be approved — yes, there’s some sort of approval process — but we’re still waiting for our app to show up in the storefront so we can download it on our N97. There’s the ability to serve up third party ads, but you’ll have to prove that you own the content you’ve placed in your app. Again, super simple, but we’re a bit wary of the sorts of apps that will start to pop up, and not sure we need everyone’s own personal feeds/sites overtaking the store. But we’ll let you be the judge of that — go on, hit the read link, create an app, and Ovi-populate.

Nokia launches Ovi App Wizard, will probably lead to Ovi-population problems originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 May 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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