Although Apple said it sold 300,000 iPads just on April 3, that figure has more than doubled as of Thursday morning. More than 600,000 iPads have gone online, according to a running tally begun earlier this week by advertising network Chitka.
California, unsurprisingly, has the most dense iPad per population ratio in the country, with one tablet device per 1,441 citizens of the West Coast state. At the other end of the spectrum is Wyoming with one iPad per 8,247 citizens of the big sky state.
The 600,000 figure may be deceptive, however. Only around 40 percent of iPad owners may be going online and being detected, the ad firm said earlier this week. This “may imply that people are buying the iPad for the apps, and spending most of their browsing time in the App Store,” Chitka researcher Dan Ruby noted in a blog post.
More than 1 million apps and 250,000 ebooks were downloaded just April 3, Apple announced Monday.
