The iPad tablet is available for pre-order from Wednesday and just two days after the opening of the pre-order session Apple announced that he sold the entire stock of units ready for users. Although the company from Cupertino did not specify how many tablets were pre-ordered in the first days, some estimate that it would be about 1 million units. Last year Apple would have sold approximately 500.000 iPad 2 tablets on the day of launch, but this year's figure could be double and all because Apple would have had more units available at launch.
While Apple did not provide a first-day sales figure for the iPad 2, analysts had their range of estimates. Munster a year ago predicted that Apple sold 500,000 over the first weekend, while others went as high as 1 million. Analysts note that the figure could have been smaller because supply constraints limited the number of iPads that Apple could bring to the market.
Let's not forget that this year Apple is launching the product in 10 countries simultaneously and more than 20 more will have it in exactly one week, so we are talking about the Apple product that has the biggest launch in the history of the company. Apple did not specify last year how many iPad 2 tablets it sold on the first day, but maybe this year it will look at things differently considering that many more people seem to be interested.
