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How Apple put the user first to make a billion dollars fast

When it came to its design, Apple’s iPad broke the rules. The company put the user first. That’s why its sold a million of them in under a month and made a billion dollars — the fastest product launch in history, some say.

“The future of the tablet market may eventually be decided by battery life. In using a low power processor, Apple has taken a major advantage. This advantage will be all the more apparent when competing products running Adobe Flash reach the market.”

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