Apple says over 300,000 iPads sold first day, how many for the first week?!

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 06 April 2010 01:45

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There hasn't yet been a week's worth of sales to count since the iPad launched on Saturday April 3rd, with Easter holidays closing some stores, but it's clear to see that 300,000 iPad sales a day keeps the iTablet competitors at bay!

Apple's iPad, claimed by analyst Gene Munster from Piper Jarrfay to have already sold over 700,000 units, has now been confirmed as having sold 300,000 units in its first day.

That's presumably means that fewer iPads were sold over the first weekend than the 1 million iPhone 3G units sold in the first weekend of its launch, but it's going to be far faster than the 74 days the original iPhone 2G took to hit the million unit mark, with iPad and tablet mania only set to continue.

It's also fewer than Gene Munster predicted, who has now come out to say "we were wrong" on predicting that many iPads for launch day sales, but who knows if that Easter and the holidays it comes with had any effect on iPad sales that will be purchased later in the week - or delayed until the 3G version is available later in the month?

Either way, with masses of positive press and now positive feedback from actual consumers who now own the device, the iPad has been a massive success, clearly set to ignite the tablet revolution at last.

Bill Gates tried to popularise the tablet PC, and while plenty of Windows-based Tablet PCs have been sold, the iPad now leads the space, with everyone else rushing to bring their own iPad 'iTablet' clones to market.

So how was that 300,000 figure calculated? According to Apple's press release, the figure has been calculated 'in the US as of midnight Saturday, April 3', with the sales including 'deliveries of pre-ordered iPads to customers, deliveries to channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores.'

As for content downloaded on that first day, made up of free and paid content, Apple sayd that 'iPad users downloaded over one million apps from Apple's App Store and over 250,000 ebooks from its iBookstore during the first day.'

No doubt relishing in his role as the 'Real' Steve Jobs, award recipient as the 'most valuable CEO in the world', iPhone inventor and inspiration giver to millions of actual iCustomers, iFans, iFanbois, iHaters, the Fake Steve Jobs and those in Redmond and Mountain View, Steve Jobs proudly announced that: 'It feels great to have the iPad launched into the world'”it's going to be a game changer. iPad users, on average, downloaded more than three apps and close to one book within hours of unpacking their new iPad.'

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