 The device received primarily positive reviews from various technology blogs and publications . Reviewers praised the device for its wide range of capabilities and labelled it as a competitor to laptops and netbooks . Some aspects were criticized , including the closed nature of the operating system and the lack of support for the Adobe Flash multimedia format . During the first 80 days , three million iPads were sold . By the launch of the iPad 2 , Apple sold more than 15 million iPads . 
