iPadThoughts

Last quarter, Apple sold just less than 10 million iPads, leaving me still doubting they could sell 40 million for the year as predicted back in January. Of course that same prediction was for a higher resolution iPad 2 display, which didn’t happen.

But now, the latest quarterly figures from Apple announce sales of more than 11 million iPads!

Since Apple quarters don’t line up with annual quarters, it’s tricky to get an exact prediction, but we have:
Second Quarter: 4.69 million iPads (this was the quarter where iPad -> iPad 2 occurred)
Third Quarter: 9.25 million iPads
Fourth Quarter: 11.12 million iPads
These figures cover December 25, 2010 to September 24, 2011 – Apple surely still have huge sales for the rest of this year! That period last year saw sales of over 7 million iPads, but I’d expect to see at least the last quarters 11 million repeated, and perhaps closer to 15 million.
So maybe they don’t hit 40 million iPad sales this year – but likely they will exceed 35 million …

This entry was posted October 18th, 2011 at 8:55 pm under Apple