1 Million iPads sold in 28 Days – Streaming World of Warcraft

May 3, 2010 by Dan Taylor    5 Comments    Posted under: Games, News

The number itself isn’t surprising, but it’s always nice to have an official word from the producer. Apple confirmed today that their millionth iPad was sold last Friday.

In a press release, Apple CEO Steve Jobs says, “One million iPads in 28 days–that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone. Demand continues to exceed supply and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.”

To date, iPad users have downloaded 12 million apps and 1.5 million ebooks.

Early estimates from industry analysts placed 1.3 million iPads sold by the end of June. As per usual, Apple is blowing predictions out of the water.

And in related news…

Games Developer legend David Perry has been working on some exciting stuff over the past few years, least of which is his Gaikai project. At it’s root, Gaikai is a browser based game streaming technology that uses server side streaming.

Great. Browser based games are nothing new, and at first glance, Gaikai might just be another run of the mill, games in browser technology. However,

When’s the last time you played WoW on anything other than your desktop?

Perry recently posted this image to his personal blog, showing a live copy of World of Warcraft running on an iPad (or a really good photoshop job). What’s interesting about this is that Gaikai is designed to work with a Flash Player, which obviously isn’t going to happen on an iPad. So has Perry cracked the code, or is this a prototype version of the game specifically designed for Perry and co. to test with? Either or … expect to see WoW on the go in one form or another in the near future.