Regarding the demographics, it is true that the «Baby Boom» generation drove a burst of mutli - household construction in 1970s and 80s, and single family in the nineties, but in absolute numbers, since the U.S. Population has grown from 200 million to 315 million, there should be, all things being equal,
a demand at least equal the that which existed in 1970s and 80s for housing.
The takeaway from the survey, Carton continued, isn't that the iPad's numbers were larger by a point or two, but that
demand for it is
at least equal to, if not greater than, the pre-sales
demand for the iPhone.