Report: 400K iPads May Be Pre-Sold By Friday

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Apple may sell 400,000 iPads during the first week of accepting pre-orders for the tablet device, according to two reports Thursday. Apple may sell 200,000 iPads online by mid-Friday for delivery and an equal number destined for pick-up at Apple retail locations. The Cupertino, Calif. company said it will begin shipping iPads April 3.

“I think sometime during Friday, perhaps before noon, the counter should roll to 200,000 units pre-ordered,” Venezualan blogger and analyst Daniel Tello told Fortune Thursday. Tello, who goes by the online pseudonym Deagol, said Apple is averaging 10,000 pre-sales per day. The blogger’s estimates are the result of tracking order numbers submitted by volunteers since Mar. 12 when Apple opened its doors for pre-orders.

Another report, from Boy Genius, estimates Apple’s 222 U.S. retail locations averaged 700 in-store pick-up reservations during the first weekend of pre-orders, a number Fortune believes is “roughly” the same rate as online.

Earlier this week, we reported on several shipping delays that might keep some iPad accessories – such as keyboard docks and power adapters from being delivered until sometime in May.

[via Fortune and Boy Genius Report]

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Lars Pallesen
400.000 sold in preorders already. Wow, that’s an impressive number if true.
It would be interesting if somebody could find the sales numbers for the best selling windows tablet PC to date, for comparison. Or for that matter all Win tablets sold to date.
Would it be too outlandish to think that the iPad could exceed those numbers in its first year on the market worldwide? It wouldn’t surprise me it it did.
http://web.me.com/giosaccone GioSaccone
WoW!! Wonderful…O.o
CaryMG
I’ll be happy with 2MM[See? I'm using the British notation!]+ by April 3rd.
My 64GB+3G is among them.
lolter
I’m sure a lot of you will start complaining as soon as 5 days at most, after you buy one. It’s like with everything else released by Apple lately. Just take a look at first aluminum iMac generation, and then look at the latest and the newest iMac 27″ generation. Also, you should visit Apple Discussion Forums just to see how many (thousands and thousands of people) are complaining about latest faulty AEBS Simultaneous Dual Band units and Apple is not doing anything to fix this problem (it’s been there since September last year, and still no solution offered).
Do not buy anything first generation, you’ll regret after just few weeks/months when Apple releases “new and improved” version of the same.
;)
Bill
@lolter I agree, however I decided to dump the 1st gen rule because the price is cheap, I can have fun with it for a little while and then pass it on to my sister when the 3rd gen comes along.
No harm no foul.
TheBrew
@Bill ditto :)
Michelle
Very cool! I cant wait for Appboy http://appboy.com to add iPad as a platform, they are a social network for App Developers and Users.
Laurence
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I kind of remember that the Windows tablet PC was launched as a business tool. The iPad appears to me more like a leisure tool. I only have an iPod nano so Iâ€™m not really a Apple freak but I played the game and I pre-ordered mine on loungeavenue.com and now I really look forward to receiving it!