“Apple Inc. (AAPL) appears to have sold out of initial inventory for some of its new iPad Mini tablets shortly after it began taking preorders Friday, suggesting strong interest in the new product,” Dow Jones Newswires reports.
“The iPad, like the iPhone, is critical to Apple’s continued success. Together, the two devices and their related products and services account for nearly three-quarters of the company’s revenue,” Dow Jones Newswires reports. “But Apple says the iPad is also key to the PC market’s future, with Mr. Cook regularly saying he expects the tablet market to soon rival PCs in terms of unit shipments.”
Dow Jones Newswires reports, “To spur sales and take momentum from competitors, Apple released what it said was the largest lineup of new devices in its history for the holidays. In the last month, Apple has unveiled new iPod music players and desktop computers alongside a new laptop, a souped-up iPad, a newly designed iPhone and, now, the iPad Mini [sic].”
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Apple sold out of iPad mini White & Silver U.S. pre-order stock in 17 minutes – October 26, 2012
Why by an iPad when you could use a pen and paper or an android?
Moses invented the tablet
I don’t know what you mean with “Why by an iPad . . . ?” Did you write it with an Android device or a pen and paper?
breeze used wet clay and a read stylus.
breeze is that backwards.
Whats that breeze exiting your arse.
Welcome all you johnny come lately FUDmesters.
iPad rules the world and so Apple created a partner – the iPad Mini, to share the reign.
It appears that it’s cheaper got Google to hire foreign FUDsters with poor English skills to spam up the Internet with anti Apple propaganda.
Cheaper got Google…with poor English skills?
Moses didn’t, God did. Moses just carried it down and sold it to the masses.
Great contribution
Got mine in. With (Product) RED cover.
Duh.
I don’t know; I think it should suped-up and not souped-up. I always thought the idea was to become “more super,” and that has little to nothing to do with soup.
Suped up is correct the etymology refers to the installation of a supercharger and then devolved to any large modification including bodywork.
God, I wish the new iPad Mini was priced higher. Don’t you, my fellow apple intelligentsia. We, my friends, are smarter and able to leap tall buildings with a single bound. We do not want the begger-peasant-poor people to intrude in our world unless they want to worship and grovel at our feet.
Your schtick about ‘wishing prices were higher’ is old, tired and done. If you don’t want something, don’t buy it. That simple. Sad and pathetic that you feel the need to troll a site just to mock users of a product.
You mock what you do not understand
I didn’t mock anything, so right back attcha.
I seem to remember something about a Microsoft launch or announcement or something for today… All I hear is the sound of Apples everywhere.
Any of you remember something about that… Hmm??
Why do the news outlets always damn Apple with faint praise? Millions of google searches for iPad mini indicates a ‘strong interest’
Selling out the entire pre-order inventory is a couple of orders of magnitude beyond ‘interest’. The action of ordering and putting your money where your mouth is more than curiosity or ‘interest’
How many units made up the pre-order inventory? Your answers are exciting…
The number really doesn’t matter, does it? Selling out the entire inventory is far more than interest, as stated by the weaksauce article, and far better still than the so called competitors channel stuffing ‘numbers shipped’.
Since the analcysts just pull numbrs out of thin air (and other less nice places) I’ll play along…… Apple sold 3.1 million in 17 minutes of pre-order action. Lets see what Apple has to say on Monday morning.
I’d be willing to bet that it was a lot more than the sold out preorders for Surface.
You MacHeads need to go over to C|Net and help rebuttal against the FUD that the WinSheep are ignorantly filling the forums with: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57540825-37/first-ipad-mini-shipments-pushed-to-2-weeks/
Crappy Apple ipad mini to be DOA. cause by instant mini death. (interest? LOl.)
I think the mini will be great for kids. I plan to get a couple for my kids. Much easier and lighter for them to hold than the iPad.