“iPad unit sales… as of Monday, July 9, I’ve seen 60 estimates — 28 from the professionals who cover Apple for banks and brokerage houses and 32 from a rapidly growing contigent of independent Apple analysts — bloggers, long-term investors and at least one day trader who has started a multimillion-dollar Apple hedge fund,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Among the professionals, the estimates range from low of 12.68 million iPads from Wedbush’s Scott Sutherland to a high of 18.5 million from Cowan’s Matthew Hoffman. The average estimate from this group is 15.07 million,” P.E.D. reports. “The average among the independents is 19.92 million — 4.85 million (32%) higher than the pros and more than double the 9.25 million sold in the same quarter last year. The low estimate in this group was 17.7 million from Alexis Cabot, a American ex-pat living in Rome, and the high was the 24 million submitted by Asymco’s Horace Dediu.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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