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Tello Predicts 200,000 iPads Pre-Ordered by Friday
Selling at a 10,000 per day clip, Daniel Tello estimates that the iPad should cross the 200,000 unit border by the end of day Friday, March 26th. Tello, who has tracked the iPad frenzy closely, claims that the orders announced are primarily for shipping and not store pre-order sales which will increase Apple’s numbers as well. The iPad sales for pre-order may eclipse the numbers from the iPhone, which sold 270,000 units before release from Apple. “I think sometime during Friday, perhaps before noon, the counter should roll to 200,000 units pre-ordered,” Tello told Fortune. … Read entire article »
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152000 iPad Orders Can’t Be Wrong
In their first weekend of sale, the iPad apparently sold over 150,000 units sight-unseen. It’s an amazing event, even for the great marketing machine at Apple. Once these babies hit the street, you now have 150,000 salespeople on the street. Daniel Tello, a market expert, told Fortune magazine that he didn’t expect the units to hit more than 500,000 in pre-orders and wouldn’t see 1 million iPads shipped until 2 weeks after general release. The first 3 hours saw 50,000 iPads sell through pre-order, with the remainder coming over the next 2+ days. The numbers show the first real acceptance of a tablet PC on the market. At a $829 price tag for the top-of-the-line model (64GB + WiFi + 3G) they are only slightly more expensive than high-end netbooks. However, if … Read entire article »
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