April 6, 2010 by Andre
After months of speculations last year it was finally announced, now after weeks of excitement and debate the iPad has arrived. Technology sites, blogs and forums are all overflowing with information about Apple’s revolutionary tablet computer but perhaps the most important information is that regarding the sales figures.
Apple have said that they sold over 300,000 iPad’s in the US (the only place it is available) on the first weekend of its release. It is, however, difficult to work out exactly whether this figure is good or bad. Some analysts claim that it is spot on and as they predicted where as others predicted double the amount of sales considering the huge hype that has surrounded the product and the massive supply of them from Apple.
Although it may be lower than some expected 300,000 is not a figure to be sniffed at, it is a fair amount more than the total first day sales of the original iPhone in 2007 which has now gone on to hit massive sales which are expected to reach $20 billion worldwide this year.
The term ‘worldwide’ is obviously a key factor in the sales totals too as they will of course rise significantly once it has been made available to the European and Asian markets.
The iPad is not expected to do this well but they are forecasting sales of 1.3million units of the device within the first quarter.
The download market had a good weekend too as an Apple spokesperson pointed out, iPad owners downloaded more than 1 million apps and over 250,000 e-books on Saturday alone.
So all in all a good opening weekend for the iPad and it will surely get better, Apple’s main challenge will come after all the die hard fans have purchased their iPad how do they convince the rest of us to buy one?
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