Although today Tim Cook said that Apple sold a record number of iPad 3 tablets but he did not specify the figure, now the company's PR team has published a press release announcing that 3 million iPad 3 tablets have been sold since the launch weekend. The iPad 3 tablet was officially launched in 10 countries on March 16 and 3 million units were sold by the American company in all these countries from then until today. We are talking about the largest number of tablets sold in a single weekend, the figure being almost as high as the one recorded at the launch of the iPhone 4S terminal. Comparing with the launch of iPad 2, Apple sold 3 times more tablets this year.
Although many people thought that the iPad 3 was just a failure, the lack of queues in front of Apple stores was compensated by an extremely large number of online pre-orders and it is very likely that we will witness a record number of iPad tablets sold in a single fiscal quarter. On the date of On March 23, the iPad 3 tablet will be launched in another 25 countries, Romania being among them.
CUPERTINO, California―March 19, 2012―Apple® today announced it has sold three million of its incredible new iPad®, since its launch on Friday, March 16. The new iPad features a stunning new Retina™ display, Apple's new A5X chip with quad-core graphics, a 5 megapixel iSight® camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video, and still delivers the same all-day 10 hour battery life* while remaining amazingly thin and light. iPad Wi-Fi + 4G supports ultrafast 4G LTE networks in the US and Canada, and fast networks around the world including those based on HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA.**
"The new iPad is a blockbuster with three million sold―the strongest iPad launch yet," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "Customers are loving the incredible new features of iPad, including the stunning Retina display, and we can't wait to get it into the hands of even more customers around the world this Friday."
