Apple iPad sales top 1 Million
REMAINING on course to revolutionise yet another sector of the ever-growing technology market, Apple announced today that sales of its iPad have now topped the 1million mark.
Sales of the tablet PC machine are expected to continue growing in the next few weeks with the release of a 3G version of the coming on April 30.
Despite delays in the worldwide release of the iPad because of the demand in North America, Apple were helped by a huge amount of hype ahead of the companies April 3 launch date. Debut sales for the system were around 300,000 on its first day and were around the 450,000 mark at the end of its opening week.
Apple originally forecast sales of 10 million units in 2010, and this morning’s figures mean that the device is selling faster than the company’s last piece of kit, the iPhone. CEO of the company Steve Jobs said: “One million iPads in 28 days – that’s less than half the 74 days it took to achieve the same milestone with the iPhone.
Online advertising firm Chitika, which tracks sales activity through it’s own unique system estimates that California has accounted for 19% of iPad sales whilst New York and Texas have been responsible for around 8% each. Regions unenthused by the latest piece of tech from Apple seem to be Montana and Wyoming which posted .08% and .03% of the combined sales figures respectively.
The success of the iPad can also be measured by the 12 million user applications downloads and the 1.5 million digital books sold to be used in conjunction with the device which sells for between $499 and $829 in America.
Developers of the Mac and iPod, Apple are a market leader in a number of domains, but their future successes could be dictated by the efforts of their competitors who are now lining up to steal the company’s market share for PC Tablet devices.
Reports suggest that Dell, Nokia and Toshiba are all lined up for tablet releases later this year and HP also admitted to ‘seeing a gap to be filled between smartphones and notebook devices’.
For now though sales of Apple’s iPad continue to grow and as the market controller of the personal audio and smartphone markets, the company should e confident of fending an such challenges with their now well established reputation.
Sales date seems to suggest that Apple to further strengthen it’s position before rivals have time to act and put their products in place, and the company will likely update its statistics at the Worldwide Developers Conference set for June in San Francisco.
Despite delays in the worldwide release of the iPad because of the demand in North America, Apple were helped by a huge amount of hype ahead of the companies April 3 launch date. Debut sales for the system were around 300,000 on its first day and were around the 450,000 mark at the end of its opening week.
Apple originally forecast sales of 10 million units in 2010, and this morning’s figures mean that the device is selling faster than the company’s last piece of kit, the iPhone. CEO of the company Steve Jobs said: “One million iPads in 28 days – that’s less than half the 74 days it took to achieve the same milestone with the iPhone.
Online advertising firm Chitika, which tracks sales activity through it’s own unique system estimates that California has accounted for 19% of iPad sales whilst New York and Texas have been responsible for around 8% each. Regions unenthused by the latest piece of tech from Apple seem to be Montana and Wyoming which posted .08% and .03% of the combined sales figures respectively.
The success of the iPad can also be measured by the 12 million user applications downloads and the 1.5 million digital books sold to be used in conjunction with the device which sells for between $499 and $829 in America.
Developers of the Mac and iPod, Apple are a market leader in a number of domains, but their future successes could be dictated by the efforts of their competitors who are now lining up to steal the company’s market share for PC Tablet devices.
Reports suggest that Dell, Nokia and Toshiba are all lined up for tablet releases later this year and HP also admitted to ‘seeing a gap to be filled between smartphones and notebook devices’.
For now though sales of Apple’s iPad continue to grow and as the market controller of the personal audio and smartphone markets, the company should e confident of fending an such challenges with their now well established reputation.
Sales date seems to suggest that Apple to further strengthen it’s position before rivals have time to act and put their products in place, and the company will likely update its statistics at the Worldwide Developers Conference set for June in San Francisco.