Less than two years after the iPad went on sale, 11% of American adults now own a tablet and more than half of this group read news on it each day.
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Around 8 million units of the Microsoft Kinect were sold within 60 days of its launch in November 2010. No consumer-electronics device has ever sold so fast, according to Guinness World Records.
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A gigabyte (GB) of storage cost around $200,000 in 1980; today a disk drive holding a terabyte, or 1,024GB, costs around $100.
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According to estimates, 468 million smartphones will be sold this year.
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It’s been estimated that almost 18 billion apps have been downloaded since the first app store was opened by Apple in 2008.
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