“Apple is scheduled to report its fiscal third quarter earnings on July 19, a week from today,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“The biggest mystery this quarter — and the biggest discrepancy in unit sales estimates — is the iPad,” P.E.D. reports. “The question is not so much how many Apple was able to sell (it sells them as fast as it makes them), but how many it was able to build and ship before the quarter ended on June 25.”
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P.E.D. reports, “Among the 39 analysts we’ve polled so far, the estimates ranged from a high of 9.5 million iPads sold (offered by Navin Nagrani, one of the growing team of amateurs who post their estimates on The Mac Observer’s Apple Finance Board) to a low of 6 million (offered by three different professionals: Gleacher’s Brian Marshall, Hudson Square’s Daniel Ernst and Think Equity’s Mark McKechnie).”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]