“Worries about iPad sales were beginning to pile up as Amazon launched its Kindle Fire,” Larry Dignan reports for CNET. “The biggest concern was that Apple was overdue for an iPad price cut.”
“However, some field work from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster may silence those fretting about iPad sales. Munster, who estimates Apple will sell 13.5 million units in the December quarter, concluded that the company’s flagship stores were selling 68 percent more iPads per hour than a year ago,” Dignan reports. “Specifically, Apple sold 14.8 iPads per hour at its retail stores. A year ago, Apple sold 8.8 iPads per hour on Black Friday.”
Dignan reports, “Other analysts were also upbeat about Apple’s iPad sales. Wedbush Securities analyst Scott Sutherland said: ‘Apple store traffic was extremely robust with positive checks at other channels. On Black Friday and over the weekend, we surveyed five Apple Store locations. On Friday, all five stores experienced wall-to-wall traffic…'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: “Concerns” over iPad 2 unit sales are nothing more than the typical manufactured B.S. designed to create AAPL discount prices.
Tell me, I’ve bought 3 of ’em!
(2 for gifts)
(OK, the one for me was a gift, too…I deserved it)
If all you deserved was a Playbook, well….
Wrong thread?
And they will continue to sell like hotcakes because they’re the greatest thing since sliced bread. Consumers are salivating over them, no matter how vigorously pundits try to poison the pot.
Feeling hungry? Shall we? Dinner’s on me.
Just send over a carton of Red Mango Madagascar Vanilla Frozen Yogurt (small) and we’ll call it even.
Vanilla? That’s crazy talk; what kinda woman doesn’t prefer chocolate?
Of course they are!
Meh, CNET article. Just candy for roid ragers and ihaters in general (see the comments sections)
Stock prices and religion- more harm than good?…
I was really afraid for the iPad when I saw headlines like, “Beleaguered RIM liquidates BlackBerry PlayBook with employee-only $99 fire sale.”
Apple have the only decent OS on the planet. IOS is an offshoot of that. Nobody else comes close.
Anyone go into a Microsoft Store? Was it busy?
Unfortunately it’s US centric only. We Canadians are left with only Apple/Sony Stores.
Nobody want to buy expensive gadget if there’s a cheap one that work the same….
Very true. Pity there aren’t any (yet).
Exactly
You mean Windows 8 tablets? They’ll come in 2012 until then iPad is king.
Kindle Fire works pretty good as a ebook reader.
Point is nothing works like an iPad. Or, for that matter any iOS 5 Device! Let’s be straight about this. It is an iPad market!
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