Are you ready for Apple to unveil how many iPads were sold during the three-month period ended June 25? Both professional and amateur analysts are out with their estimates and whomever you believe, it appears to have been another gang-buster quarter for the tablet giant.
As in previous years, amateur analysts are bullish, while the pros have the low consensus. Amateur Navin Nagrani forecasts 9.5 million iPads were sold during the quarter, while Gleacher’s Brian Marshall, Hudson Square’s Daniel Ernst and Think Equity’s Mark McKechnie agree on 6 million units.
However, even the analyst average of 7.92 million iPads sold translates to a 142 percent jump from the same period in 2010. Total iPads sold in 15 months be close to 27.4 million tablets. Amateurs average 8.38 million, while the pros gather at 7.72 million units.
Apple will release actual third-quarter sales figures Tues., July 19 around 5pm Eastern.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
11 responses to “Apple Sold Up To 9.5M iPads This Quarter, While Competitors Struggled To Sell Any”
Nice to hear. Earlier in the year the analysts kept talking about how about 60 Android tablet companies were going to absolutely crush the iPad by sheer numbers alone. Six months later and the iPad 2 still doesn’t seem to be in danger of being crushed. Apple’s best preventive measures would be to continue to increase production and sell as many iPads as possible. If any reasonable competitor comes along, Apple should immediately drop the iPad’s price $50 across the board and that should completely stifle any competitor’s tablet sales.
Who the heck needs 50 or 60 Android tablet vendors, anyway? It just adds to more Android device confusion. This should be a good quarter for iPad 2 sales, but it should pale into comparison to Christmas holiday iPads sales. If Apple can continue to boost sales, the competition won’t even be able to get enough components for a serious run. I’d be happy if Apple ends up selling about 7.5 million iPad 2s for the past quarter.
The competition has it all wrong. They put all their money into superior hardware (for the most part), and then just slap a copy of Android on it, and not only expect it to sell better, but think they consumers are going to respond to an ad bragging about the superior specs. That is not what it is about. It is about the user experience. It doesn’t matter how much RAM your tablet has, if the operating system/UI isn’t up to par. Not only with tablets, but desktops/laptops as well, they have made their products run faster and smoother with inferior specs. 4gb of RAM on a Mac feels like using Win 7 with 8.
The marketing is wrong, their approach is wrong, and quite frankly, their Marketplace is garbage. Compare an iPad app to a Xoom app. The iPad apps for some reason not only run smoother, but LOOK better as well, because Apple holds their developers to a higher standard to try and weed out the garbage. Sometimes they block out apps that we would like to have passed, but I’d rather let a few slip by than to have our App Store look like their Marketplace.
BUT ANDROID HAS A BIGGER MARKETSHARE!!!!! AND THEY HAZ FLASH!!!!! lol
Aw, Android users, umad? You should be. For obvious reasons.
lol at the Birmingham Bullring photo :P
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