“This sales rate is blowing past the one million units the iPhone sold in its first quarter and the 350,000 units sold in the first year by the DVD player, the most quickly adopted non-phone electronic product,” Melloy reports. “‘The iPad did not seem destined to be a runaway product success straight out of the box,’ said Colin McGranahan, retail analyst at Bernstein Research, in a note. ‘By any account, the iPad is a runaway success of unprecedented proportion.'”
MacDailyNews Take: At least one person most certainly did expect iPad to be a runaway success: MacDailyNews’ SteveJack. Read: Why I’ll be buying an Apple iPad – along with millions of others – January 27, 2010
Melloy reports, “At this current rate, the iPad will pass gaming hardware and the cellular phone to become the 4th biggest consumer electronics category with estimated sales of more than $9 billion in the U.S. next year, according to Bernstein. TVs, smart phones and notebook PCs are the current three largest categories.”
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