“With Apple’s iPad 2 event reportedly set for March, analysts are scurrying to predict how many tablets the company can sell,” Larry Dignan writes for ZDNet. “Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes takes the first crack at guesstimates… ‘We expect iPad sales will increase significantly in 2011, benefiting from a major upgrade that features a thinner and lighter design, along with cameras and FaceTime calling. Our iPad unit estimate for calendar first quarter is 5.1 million, which takes into account seasonality after the holiday buying season and a potential lull before iPad 2 ships in April. Long term, we estimate 28.8 million iPad units for fiscal year 2011 (33.7 million for calendar year 2011) and 40 million for FY12 (42.1 million for CY12) which are likely quite conservative.'”
Dignan reports, “Others are likely to follow. But one thing is clear: Apple’s iPad 2 is expected to really scale the company’s sales.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” for the heads up.]
How many Apple sells will equal Apple’s maximum “sustainable” rate of iPad production.
I am buying one. My 17 year old daughter has been eyeing my V1 iPad since the day I bought it.
no no no it’s gotta be that number squared multiplied by (2 + 230,000)+x squared… (the x is steve jobs)
Big deal.
Xoom will crush the dead-on-arrival I-Pad 2. Then Windows tablets will crush Xoom. I don’t know why MAC even tries.
Thanks. That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a month!
Hey, who’s xoomin’ who here?..
How’s your phone, Zune? Bricked yet?
Look at my avatar. He’s laughing at you with your Zune HD, bloated OS Windows tablets and Motorola Doom (Xoom) tablet. Ten years later and Microsoft still can’t get consumers to buy a Windows tablet. It’s gotten so bad that PC vendors have to be forced into building them.
I predict the iPad 2 will outsell the Xoom 10 to 1 because Motorola knows nothing about selling products, good or bad.
Hahahaha
Welcome back ZT! But how can we be sure that you are the real ZT? With this new login that MDN has, anyone can pose as ZT.
Give us some proof!
You all do realize that Zune Tang® purposely trolls this blog to poke fun at all things Apple to show just how preposterous it is to poke fun at Apple, right?
Keep up the great work ZT, we’ve missed your comments as of recent.
@ZT
You make me chuckle. Thanks. Say hi to that bald, fat, sweating monkey boy for me…don’t interrupt his dancing though. Wait for in between the (rounding) numbers, ‘k?
Xoom will not crush anything except the rotting garbage at the bottom of the dumpster, when it’s thrown away.
Not true. The Xoom will very possibly crush the poor store employees whose job it will be to remove all the unsold over priced tablets from the shelves after a few months time. It is for them that I pray.
Of course “boom” is Steve’s favourite word. 🙂
http://www.maniacworld.com/steve-jobs-boom-montage.html
Zune Tang is back!! And with a copy-write! All is right with the world once again.
My credit card is ready. Please make enough Apple, I will wait in line if I must.
Yep, Xoom is gonna kill iPad. It’s secret weapon will be Flash support! Oh, wait, http://macdailynews.com/2011/02/21/oops-motorola-xoom-wont-ship-with-adobe-flash-support-to-be-added-later/
iPad set the bar, and will continue to raise it. Everything else will be, “Oh, I see you got that thing that’s like an iPad. Cool.” “Yep, it’s like an iPad. Only better.” “iPad, iPad, iPad.” Every other product is virtually an iPad ad.!
New iPad model is expected to ignite sales? That’s an outstanding analysis.
That being said I’m ordering a wi-fi and a wi-fi+3g models on day one.
My credit crd is ready 😀
xoom has been exhumed!
zunetang. Missed u sorely.
I’m going out on a limb,but I predict that Apple
will sell every iPad it makes.
ZT is the secret nom de plume of Steve Jobs.
He love to rouse up and entertain the Apple
nation. 🙂
They will sell as many as they can make.
We have a two iPad household, we will buy two more and pass ours down to the grandkids …. And we have five grandkids, so we will be buying the next 3-4 generations, until our little clan has one each ……
Did same with ipodtouch and MacBooks and iMacs ….. Yea we have purchased a ton of apple products and will continue as long as they innovate ….
The number like myself who are just waiting for version 2 iPad is unimaginable and unsustainable to meet on any production line. I borrowed and used version 1 from work for a week and now we are just waiting for version 2, and in order to avoid a “who’s gonna use it now” war with our gaming youngster, we are considering a second one sooner rather than later…this thing can really cause a family argument because everybody wants to use it.
But it looks like anyone can be ZT with this new MDN login process.
Great to see Zune Tang back. Actually she/he has had the trademark for some time.