Apple Online Store“Based on order ID numbers, Andrew Erlichson, CEO of photo sharing website Phanfare, thinks Apple could be selling 20,000 iPads an hour, which suggests iPad sales of around $10 million per hour today,” Jay Yarow reports for The Business Insider.

Here’s a portion of what Erlichson wrote on his blog:

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… Now, of course, we can’t be sure every order was for an iPad. Apple does sell other stuff. But at 830am in the morning on the east coast, my guess is that most of the orders were for iPads… This also means that Apple will sell out of all devices built in the initial manufacturing run sometime this week.

This product will change consumer computing.

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Note: Please also see our related report: RUMOR: Apple hit with ‘overwhelming’ iPad orders; Apr. 3 in-store pickup in jeopardy for new orders – Friday, March 12, 2010 – 12:03 PM EST

MacDailyNews Take: Bloodbath.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "James W." for the heads up.]

Related articles:
RUMOR: Apple hit with ‘overwhelming’ iPad orders; Apr. 3 in-store pickup in jeopardy for new orders – March 12, 2010
Apple begins taking iPad pre-orders – March 12, 2010