“The folks who hang out at Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity Board are too impatient to wait for Appl to announce sales figures; they much prefer to work them out on their own — in real time,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
“Entering the order numbers associated with their own purchases on a Google spreadsheet, they think they’ve cracked the code. As of 11:05 a.m. ET — two and a half hours after Apple’s online store began taking pre-orders — the group had received 15 confirmations with order numbers as high as 74,000 (the numbers don’t necessarily start at 0),” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “‘51,000 orders in two hours,’ announced Victor Castroll shortly after noon. He’s an analyst with Valcent Financial Group and an AAPL Sanity member.”
Full article here.
One Word, Snappy!
Going Snapppppppily
Complete failure!
Added to the long list of Apple failures!
Only 25k an hour, should be selling 100k an hour. LOL
Where do they get these order numbers?
Mine is like 6 billion or something and I ordered immediately this morning.
That does NOT mean that Apple is selling 25,000 iPADs per hour. It does mean that Apple Online is processing 25,000 ORDERS per hour. They do, and are, selling other products today.
I placed two orders today that were NOT iPADs – one was my MobileMe renewal, the other was an iPAD Keyboard Dock. Those orders were processed 90 minutes apart by Apple Online, with a difference in the order numbers of 14,741. Divided by 1.5 hours, means that Apple processed 9827 ORDERS in that 90 minute timeframe.
OOPS – 9827 ORDERS per hour.
I ordered a 32 Gb wi-fi in hopes iPhone tethering comes some day! The 16 Gb model reminds me of the Ill-fated 4 Gb model destined to be obsolete day of release. How Apple can charge so much for flash memory is beyond me! Anywho, I caved and ordered but that suckers going on eBay the day a webcam is announced!
So, 25,000 fools an hour? Read what this dumbass has to say!
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/only-fool-would-pre-order-ipad-461
You’re a idiot
They can count me, I just ordered my mine.
I should probably say my first because I know even though I ordered it for me, as soon as my wife and kids get their hands on it I’ll need to order more.
You know iMaki, we may not agree on a few things, but we have this Apple products appreciation in common. So, I think we should shake hands on that. Meanwhile, right now, as someone who must wait until it becomes available in France, I envy you.
iMaki, there will be no iPhone tethering. Steve has declared it:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/05/reader_steve_jobs_says_no_tethering_between_ipad_and_iphone.html
These folks are really reaching conclusions on sales based on too little data. Looking at receipt numbers etc and assuming all are for an iPad when many may be for other Apple products and yet some may be for two iPad like I ordered. We will know in a few days just how many are ordered and I bet they will be many.
Truth? “iMaki, there will be no iPhone tethering. Steve has declared it:”
Not until ATT announces it is what you mean.
It IS in ATTs interest to put a plan in place for tethering and they will charge a fee that keeps them competitive.
I already pay Verizon $70/month to be able to connect on the road. I will Drop that in a heartbeat if I can pay ATT say $30/month for a tethering package to my iPhone.
Given that they will allow a day by day 3GS connection for iPad, it seems inevitable that the same will come for tethering on the iPone. By extension, I would expect the same 3GS option will come to the MacBook Pros soon. (They are WAY past due for an upgrade to the latest Intel laptop chips).
Im waiting for mac netbook and mac game console. Ipad is useless for me
sent from my pocket ipod touch
Ridiculous – Apple has thousands of orders per hour, and they are not all iPad orders, this is pure conjecture.
Anyways, what are we expecting, more or less than 25000 per hour? Everybody all over the world knows about the iPad. What do we expect? People don’t want to wait in line and camp out to get one.
I just ordered 2.
@wyatt,
I’m waiting for the G5 Powerbook, so there!
25,000 iPad orders an hour means 219 MILLION iPads will be sold in 1 year.
That is HUGE, HUGE, HUGE.
I’m happy I just bought more Apple stock this morning.
Expect pre-sales to exceed 1 million in first weekend.
Even if it’s ONLY 10,000 per hour, that’s a huge number; at that rate, Apple will get over one million pre-orders during the first week. And that’s pre-orders, with the model that does not have 3G.
I think Apple will actually get one million pre orders before the weekend is over.
I ordered mine. 64GB 3G/GPS
ordered mine. 64G baby.
@ken1w
Yeah even if Apple “only” sells 10000 iPads per hour JUST for today (in case something terrible in Apple’s servers happens), it will already trumph Nexus One’s sales….
Take that, Google.
@James Katt
Remember that sales numbers for product launches usually are some twenty times greater than the average for the rest of the year…
…although that would still mean 11m iPads sold this year….
HELL YEAH