As you might already know, Apple iPad has been available for pre-order on Friday, March 12th with delivery starting on April 3rd. There is much hype about this product. Many people like it and many people dislike it. But how well is the iPad really did on its first day?
Apparently it is estimated that 120,000 of iPad has been sold on the first day. The figure was given by the team at Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity board based on a sampling of 99 orders (for 110 iPads) over 19.5 hours, and not counting units that were reserved but not ordered.
Below are the results of their analysis:
- Nearly 120,000 iPads sold. Their math: 124,596 (orders of all Apple products Friday) minus 16,500 (the average number of online orders on a normal day) times 1.11 (the average number of iPads ordered per customers) equals 119,987 iPads.
- WiFi over Wi-Fi+3G. Customers preferred the cheaper (and available April 3) Wi-Fi only iPad over the Wi-Fi + 3G model (due out at the end of April) by roughly two to one.
- 16GB iPads only slightly more popular, Pre-orders were almost evenly split between the 16, 32 and 64 GB models, with a slight preference for the less-expensive 16GB model, which starts at $499. The highest-priced iPad is the 64GB Wi-Fi+3G model which retails for $829, AT&T charges not included.
Have you ordered your iPad?
Are you gonna buy one when iPad reaches Malaysia and Singapore?
I will get one to test it out, provided if no budget constraint.