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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Apple pre-sold around 50k units when they went on sale on the web yesterday. Their average hardware sales on their website is around 15k a day, to give you a sense of the scale of this thing.
Pundits expecting iPad to flop are going to be disappointed.
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More speculation, buzz, and expectation:
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'Hundreds Of Thousands' Of iPads Ordered So Far
Posted by Eric Zeman, Mar 18, 2010 03:45 PM
Apple has yet to share official numbers for iPad pre-orders, but the Wall Street Journal says that in one week "hundreds of thousands" of them have been pre-ordered. Additionally, Apple hasn't finalized all the content deals it was hoping to by launch.
The Journal cites people "familiar with the matter" as the source for its numbers. By their word, Apple has pre-sold "hundreds of thousands" of iPads.
The Journal reports, "Apple could sell more iPads in its first three months than it sold iPhones in the three months after the smart phone's debut." The iPhone sold 1 million units in the first 74 days it was available for sale. Can the iPad sell as many? Well, it's certainly possible.
What's perhaps more interesting is that the same sources indicated that Apple is still furiously trying to lock down content deals for the iPad. Some of the content deals Apple originally hoped to lock down include $1 television shows, as well as newspaper subscriptions, magazine subscriptions and textbooks. These have been shelved for the moment and Apple is instead focusing on finalizing other content deals in the works.
Apple hopes to have the deals pinned down before the April 3 launch of the device. Will Apple delay the device if the content deals aren't inked in time?
In order to provide some perspective, other's aren't so rosy on the iPad pre-sales figures. The same blogger who over the weekend said that 50,000 were pre-ordered in the first two hours, and 152,000 by Sunday night, says that he believes there are about 10,000 iPad's being pre-ordered each day. According to him, that would put the total number of pre-orders just over 200,000 by Friday.
Either way, I can't think of any netbooks that have received this much attention ahead of launch. Has this much demand for a tablet computing device always been present, or are we still in the "pure fanboy" phase of things?
These and other questions won't be answered until the device has been in the market for several months.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/...OSKH4ATMY32JVN
It would be incredible if iPad sales outstrip that of iPhone three months after release. I remember the hype surrounding that. And we know how many of those have been sold, especially with subsequent releases of new models.
What's more talk of the town is the wheeling and dealing between Apple and content providers such as television producers and book and magazine publishers. Content providers are putting a lot of stake into this device, and as with both the iPod and the iPhone, what truly matters is the marriage of device and content.