According to Net Application’s May 1 report, the five U.S. market areas with the largest concentration of iPads — measured by its clients’ browser data — are: San Francisco, California (0.25% Internet share); Grand Junction, Colorado (0.23%); Santa Barbara, California (0.19%);
Honolulu, Hawaii (0.19%); and Bend, Oregon (0.19%).
“Fortune” (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/01/the-ipads-of-bend-oregon/) notes that it’s a city of 82,000 nearly 200 miles from the nearest Apple Store “that seems to give lie to the notion that iPad fever is a condition that affects only Apple diehards in large metropolitan areas.” Bend is the largest town in sparsely populated central Oregon.
