Just in case you thought these guys mistook the line outside of London’s Regent Street Apple Store for a line for Justin Bieber tickets, guess what? The UK’s sold out of iPad 2s.
The Daily Mail is reporting that although the iPad 2 officially launched in the UK on March 25th, all available iPad 2s had been sold within 24 hours.
It’s hard to say how many iPads Apple sold internationally, as they still haven’t released domestic numbers yet. Analysts estimate that Apple could have sold between 500,000 to 1,000,000 iPad 2s so far, with that number constrained not by demand, but by supply.
It seems that the exact same situation is now unfolding across the globe. The iPad 2? It’s an international sensation.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
