“According to an update posted Friday morning — two weeks to the day after Apple began accepting online orders — an estimated 240,000 iPads had been pre-ordered for delivery,” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “Daniel Tello, who has been tracking order numbers submitted by volunteers, notes that this does not include iPads reserved for pick-up at Apple Stores, which the Boy Genius reports were pouring in the first weekend at the same rate as pre-orders. Nor does it include bulk orders by schools and businesses. [Emphasis added by MacDailyNews]
Elmer-DeWitt reports, “Speaking strictly about the pre-orders he tracks, Tello says a bookie might take odds at 300,000 units by April 3. ‘But the conservative in me,’ he says, ‘would bet under. About 280k would be my safe prediction.'”
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Seth Weintraub reports for 9 to 5 Mac, “BoyGenius, meanwhile stated that people pre-ordering iPads to stores number about the same as those who are doing online ordering. Ten days ago, on March 15th, they said that 150,000 iPad store pickup orders had been placed. Extrapolate that out and you have close to another quarter million iPads.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: These numbers are obviously not from Apple, so take them with a grain of salt.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]