Apple may have sold 120,000 iPads on its first day of preorders March 12, according to analyst estimates. Those same analysts are also predicting the perhaps inevitable falloff in preorders. According to their estimates, nearly 70 percent of preorders are for iPads with WiFi, as opposed to the WiFi and 3G-enabled version, and orders were almost evenly split between the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions. Apple predicts that some 150,000 apps will be available upon launch for the 9.7-inch tablet PC, and has already begun its marketing push ahead of the iPads April 3 release.
– Daniel Tello, a blogger and analyst,
leveraged data supplied by volunteers to arrive at an estimation of 120,000
iPads sold via Apples Website March 12, the inaugural day that Apple
opened the device to preorders. That number included 50,000 iPads sold within
a single two-hour period. The iPad…