Analyst predicts Apple sold 700,000 iPads on Saturday

By on Apr 4, 2010 at 7:35 AM
General April 4, 2010

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Piper Jaffrey tech analyst Gene Munster yesterday revised his initial single-day sales predictions for Apple’s iPad by as much as 250%. Prior to the iPads launch, Munster had expected Apple to sell 200,000 to 300,000 units (including pre-orders) within the first 24 hours. But after a bit more research and watching some 730 people flowing in and out of Apple’s 5th Avenue shop in New York City, Munster revised his estimate to a whopping 600,000 to 700,000 units sold. To put this into perspective, the iPhone 3G saw 530 people visit the same location while the launch of the iPhone 3GS saw 350. The launch of the original iPhone saw Apple move some 270,000 devices in a single day. Perhaps Apple can indeed move 7.1 million iPads in a year as iSuppli predicted just two days ago.

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  • The Truth

    I guarantee the people who bought the iPad and went to church for Easter Sunday didn’t give a dime in church. Priorities are all fucked up. This thing is missing so many features that a $600 price tag is laughable. Apple could put their logo on shit and people would pre order it.

    • John

      Why give money to the church for ? It’s going to go to the priests who will be molesting little kids.

      • thatdudethere

        He did not say it was a catholic church, absolutely tasteless!

    • Tdot34

      Who the hell still goes to church? Must be from the Bible belt…..

  • The Crap Crusader

    I am thinking of buying an iPad to replace all the magazines I keep in the shitter.

  • Willy

    If this thing was $50 I would buy like 15 of them and have one within reach in everyone room of my 2 bedroom apartment.

    • Willy

      *every room

  • Android Guru

    These number are extremly inflated. Lets wait till some real numbers come out before we start sucking Steve Jobs d**k…

  • genomecop

    Bought one yesterday.
    Its great. I love it. Getting rid of my Asus netbook today.
    My phone is Android.
    My desktops are W7.
    My Slate is Apple.
    Looks like I have all my bases covered.

    • himan

      now time to cover your asses , ipad fans

  • http://www.boygenius.com ernsalas

    I would love this, it will be a gift for my wife.

  • Mhammo

    I love it when so called analysts are so far of the mark they look stupid. Way to go Gene Munster from Piper Jaffrey. I knew that 700k number was just no way. Just another fanboy trying to pump the numbers.

  • Tom L

    I need one of these iPad’s becuase my girlfriend won’t let my buy one!

  • kevin

    700k lol I was in line with only about 30 people at apple store.

  • F1

    Prior to the iPads launch, Munster had expected Apple to sell 200,000 to 300,000 units (including pre-orders) within the first 24 hours. But after a bit more research… Munster revised his estimate to a whopping 600,000 to 700,000 units sold.!!!!

    Some “Idiot” must have done the secondary “research”, to revise an estimate, and to be off by some “400.000″ units !!

    As noted by BGR, Apple announced the actual number of units to be “300.000″, after all !

    Thank You

  • Gees
  • Chris

    Looks liek the analyst’s were WRONG since they only sold 300,000. I guess ill take what analyst’s say with a grain of salt OR NOT AT ALL.

    Large iPod suxs

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