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The Top 10 U.S. iPad States: California leads by far in Apple iPad adoption

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 · 2:31 pm · 27 Comments

Chitika Labs is running their “Cookie 2.0″ methodology of the Apple iPad tracker to arrive at an estimate of how many iPads have been sold. As of right now, the tracker reads 876,277 iPads sold with 32,866 new iPads, or 4% of all online units, seen so far today.

The iPad tracker also breaks the sales estimate down to the state level.

The Top 10 U.S. iPad States are currently:

1. California – 19.12%
2. New York – 8.30%
3. Texas – 8.00%
4. Florida – 5.88%
5. Illinois – 3.84%
6. New Jersey – 3.39%
7. Pennsylvania – 3.05%
8. Massachusetts – 3.05%
9. Georgia – 2.93%
10. Washington – 2.82%

See the full 50 U.S. State breakdown here.

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ChrissyOne

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 2:34 pm · Reply

10. Washington – 2.82%

IN YOUR FACE, MINNESOTA!
theloniousMac

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 2:35 pm · Reply

This is not something the iPad should be proud of.

A more kooky badly run state you will never find, and I’ve lived here all my life.

So keep this to yourselves, otherwise the rest of the world will wonder what is so wrong with the iPad that California likes it?
Wingsy

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 2:36 pm · Reply

I tried to get NC on the list but Apple would only let me buy 2.
ChrissyOne

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 2:40 pm · Reply

@ theloniousMac

Don’t worry. People that don’t actually live in California don’t hate it.
Rike

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 2:41 pm · Reply

C1
ouch! At least MN is getting bluer.
jax44

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 2:45 pm · Reply

Alaska: 0.37%. Sarah Palin bought one.
Fredo

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 2:46 pm · Reply

pretty useless stat. it would be a LOT more informative if it was per capita. as a percent of computer sales it might be even better. but seeing as California has around twice the population of any other state, knowing Apple sold teach as many ipads here doesn’t tell me a whole lot.

(Oops… looks like my ipad’s dictionary doesn’t autocorrect the plural or possessive forms of “iPad” but it does for iPhones (tho not iphone’s)… how about some consistency guys?)
I agree with Fredo

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 2:50 pm · Reply

Per capita would tell you more about how widely it is adopted in a given state.
ChrissyOne

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 2:58 pm · Reply

@ Rike

Careful with that kind of talk around here. >.<
IDArgyll

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 2:59 pm · Reply

I guess we people from the Intermountain West need to get on the ball. My Idaho is only slightly better than Wyoming. Might help if we had an Apple Store and didn’t have to drive all the way to Utah!
KenC

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 3:18 pm · Reply

Hmmm…blue states dominate the top-10. I guess the demographics showing libs have less money than cons is not quite right.
Hm...

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 3:24 pm · Reply

One wonders if the reason Washington state is so high on the list is that Redmond needed a bunch for its scribes to, er, facilitate their facsimile function…
ChrissyOne

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 3:35 pm · Reply

@ KenC

Careful. That just means blue states are population centers, which we already knew.
ChrissyOne

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 3:39 pm · Reply

@ Hm…

FWIW, I have not yet spotted one iPad in the wild, aside from those going out the Apple Store’s front door.
ABQ Peter

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 4:00 pm · Reply

what a useless way to present data. now i have to divide the numbers by state population to find out something useful. i hope these guys don’t make their living analyzing things.
Alex McKenna

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 4:05 pm · Reply

An English friend of mine, working in the States, has been TEASING me with his iPad messages, the bugger. Knowing I can’t get my own one till late May.
He’s using it a LOT because he can’t get back here for another 9 days because of the volcano problem.
He tells me that as soon as he saw it, he had to HAVE IT. (I think he went into the store for something entirely different, not an iPad…)
I will have my revenge.. He has a Wifi one and I will have the top of the range
ken1w

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 4:07 pm · Reply

It’s seems obvious that the state with the largest population (by a significant margin over #2) would have the highest iPad unit numbers. Followed by New York, Texas, Florida, and Illinois. What a surprise! Those are the top five states by population.
Bah

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 4:15 pm · Reply

Ding ding ding

Fredo for the prize.

Useless stat.

In other news, California has led the country in car adoption, closely followed by NY, TX, and FL.

Boo MDN.
dogmaticatheist

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 4:21 pm · Reply

It makes sense considering CA has 1/8 of the US population.
Chu

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 4:25 pm · Reply

Any relationship in how Many best buys and apple stores per state. Here in pr we have 4 best buys and one apple authorize dealer called modernica since day one all ipads are sold out. I beta state like California have more tahn 100 best buys of course they are going to be num. One but have they sell all their stock. ? I think so but is unfare ti compare states like that
Census worker

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 4:41 pm · Reply

In parenthesis, I have added the percent of US population for each state (per Wikipedia.org)

1. California – 19.12% (11.95%)
2. New York – 8.30% (6.31%)
3. Texas – 8.00% (7.81%)
4. Florida – 5.88% (5.97%)
5. Illinois – 3.84% (4.20%)
6. New Jersey – 3.39% (2.84%)
7. Pennsylvania – 3.05% (4.06%)
8. Massachusetts – 3.05% (2.07%)
9. Georgia – 2.93% (3.12%)
10. Washington – 2.82% (2.11%)
Linds

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 4:51 pm · Reply

Makes sense when you consider how many Apple stores are actually in each state. California and the other top states are obviously going to have more stores and therefore, more iPads sold. In North Carolina, there are only 4 stores, and iPads are sold out at at least one of them.
Fredo

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 6:20 pm · Reply

Using “Census Worker’s” data (not verified) here is a quick calculation of percent of iPad adoption per percent of population. (Each state’s adoption rate expressed as a multiple of nationwide adoption rate). CA still on top, though not by nearly as much. 4 of the 10 “top adopter” states (FL, GA, IL, PA) are actually below-average on a per capita basis.

California 1.600
Massachusetts 1.473
Washington 1.336
New York 1.315
New Jersey 1.194
Texas 1.024
Florida 0.985
Georgia 0.939
Illinois 0.914
Pennsylvania 0.751
TowerTone

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 9:51 pm · Reply

Oh yeah.!.!.!.?
Let’s just do one for cowboy hat density.
I bet Texas is denser than all you loser Yankees!!!!
Hahahaha!
….wait
Proud Puppy

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 10:52 pm · Reply

I thought California was an other country, they act like it and their govinator talks funny, plus LA speaks spanish.