The whole web seemed desperate for Apple’s iPad to be announced and when it finally was they couldn’t wait to get their hands on one. Personally, I’m not too pushed and you won’t find me rushing out to buy one when they come to stores near me.
But it seems there has certainly been some demand from consumers in the US anyway. The iPad went up for pre order on Friday. It was estimated that Apple took 50,000 orders in the first 2 hours of the iPad being on sale. Two orders were placed 30 minutes apart and the Order ID numbers were approximately 10,000 apart, suggesting a rate somewhere near 20,000 orders per hour if order numbers are issued sequentially as they appear to be.
More calculations suggest that nearly 120,000 iPads were sold during the first day on the whole.
And how did they come to that conclusion? Well the Apple Store saw 124,596 orders on Friday, compared to the average of 16,500 orders on a normal day. Deducted that from the total, and then multiply the figure by 1.1 (the average number of iPads ordered per customer), and you’ve got 119,987 iPads. It’s simple!
But it appears demand died off fairly quick after Friday and total iPad sales for the weekend were estimated at roughly 150,00 units. Dedicated analyst Daniel Tello, has been following order numbers and reckons that the order rate slowed to just 1,000 an hour on Sunday.
Based on his analysis as the initial surge from launch day wears off, Tello predicts that Apple may see about 500,000 pre-orders and reservations by the time the iPad officially becomes available on April 3rd.
“My best guess, although very tentative given the early stage and few data we have so far, would be that they hit the 1 million unit milestone by the second week after it ships,” he told Fortune. “But this is a very speculative guesstimate based on just a weekend of pre-orders.”
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Congratulations for the good results! No wonder that they could catch up with smartphones. Apple have a smart inventions.
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