On Preorders:
Here is a couple of details from the widespread coverage:
On Friday, the first day that buyers could pre-order the device (it arrives in stores next month), Apple racked up an estimated 91,000 sales in just the first six hours of availability, putting temporarily to rest the Internet’s persistent “iPad fail” meme. (Source: Washington Post)
By one estimate, pre-orders were coming in Friday morning at the rate of 25,000 per hour (Source: CNN)
2:28 p.m. “We’re now at about 74k in 4 1/2 hours.”
4:21 p.m. “We’re at about 91k in six hours.”
(Source: CNN)
“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.”
(Source: Mashable)
“We’re at 90k in 6 hours. Keep in mind, this doesn’t include multiple orders but we have some dirty data from regular Apple business which now is about 4k orders out of the 88k orders. So, we estimate Apple has already sold about 90k today, not including in-store reserves…”
(Source: Mashable)
“Victor Castroll, an analyst at Valcent Financial Group estimated that the first day sales brought in about $75 million in revenue for Apple.”
(Source: Sacramento Business Journal)
