Apple Sells 51k iPads In Just 2 Hours? [Report]
The pre-order for the iPad is on and its selling like hot cakes. Leave aside all the iPad Launch disappointments – no multi tasking, no flash, no USB Drive… blah blah. Apple fans were tracking the iPad sales right form the starting. This is what Phanfare has to say -
We just bought two iPads, about 30 minutes apart. Our order IDs are 10,000 apart. Assuming those order IDs are sequential, and they appear to be, then Apple is selling 20,000 iPads per hour.
Simply awesome!
Fortune also reports some what similar numbers which have come from AAPL Sanity Board. Almost matching with the Phanfare numbers Fortune says
“51,000 orders in two hours,” announced Victor Castroll shortly after noon. He’s an analyst with Valcent Financial Group and an AAPL Sanity member who, with the blogger-analyst who calls himself deagol, has been monitoring the spreadsheet.
Spreadsheet? Yup these guys are actually monitoring iPad sales by populating and monitoring order IDs of as many buyers as possible!
These numbers are fucking big and I can see long queues infront of Apple Store. Few more numbers -
Per hours sale in – $12.5 million + (considering every one ordered for $499 iPad)
Steve sure knows how to sell and believe me there are way too many Apple fan boys to live up to his expectations. Apple is heading toward yet another “best quarter ever” in its history .
Still I would stay wait for the 2nd generation of iPad. It has got to be much much better and cheaper. There will be some cool hardware upgrades and Apple will convince you to buy another iPad, so better wait, see how exactly iPad is turning out and then go for it. For all those who can not wait here is the place you need to go.
Have a look at the 1st iPad Commercial which was screened at Oscars.
What say guys will iPad be as revolutionary as the iPhone?
I know I ordered mine, as well as the keyboard dock and case.
(Twitter: @ mayank25may )
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cool man!
which one did you order? and wat was ur Order ID? We have a spreadsheet here at TechDusts and we are religiously populating that with all the data we are getting 
nice one Mayank, good to see people spending time tracking iPad sales data, i cant think of anything better you could be doing with your days.
(Twitter: @ mayank25may )
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Good to see people spending time tracking people who are tracking iPad sales data, i cant think of anything better you could be doing than commenting here
To continue the tone of this piece… Oh my fucking God, that’s 175M iPad’s a year and US 110B!!
This article assumes that the Apple store sells NOTHING BUT iPad’s which is of course quite a silly assertion.
(Twitter: @ mayank25may )
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Good point Casper. The data is taken from Fortune and Phanfare (links given in the post) and both of them have categorically mentioned this fact. Thanks for pointing it out any way.
apple’s ipad is a cheap half assed effort to build and sell a product that is sub standard…no multitasking…no usb…enough said