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Apple Sells at Most 51,000 iPads in First Two Hours

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13 pointsMykalMorton13 comments

Apple sells 51,000 total items through the Apple store since they started taking pre-orders for the iPad.

Still, it’s safe to say that the majority of orders placed through the Apple Online Store are for the iPad.

Yeah, I don't really follow the logic there.

majority is anything >50% . there is a big difference between 51% and lets say 85%. We need to stop ignoring these analysts that make up retarded facts or act as if they have an army of people leaking them rumors.

Yeah. Assuming orderID's are sequential, you'd at least want a bunch of data bout how many orders per hour there are on a typical day.

tuaw.com reports an average order volume of 15k/day on the apple store

Searching on Twitter yields quite a bit of results for "ipad pre-ordered" May be someone can use the API to get an exact number.

The majority of iPad buyers are going to twitter about their purchase?

We don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if the early adopter crowd has a lot of overlap with the twitter crowd. That said, I don't think it's worth trying to estimate sales that way

Source is more useful: http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/12/apple...

Key points:

> His estimate — which is adjusted for the roughly 15,000 online orders that come in a typical day — jibes with a 20,000-per-hour figure published earlier by Silicon Alley Insider.

Alley Insider made two orders 30 minutes apart to come up with the 20k number, no mention of if they too accounted for the 15k "typical" daily orders (no clue when/where that 15k number comes from, what season, what point in a launch cycle, etc).

> 4:21 p.m. "We're at about 91k in six hours. Have your readers keep the order numbers coming in to ipadsales10@gmail.com."

and

> If you want to contribute your information to the spreadsheet, you can e-mail it to ipadsales10@gmail.com

All in all it doesn't sound like very meaningful information, just fun headline material.

Not sure I would trust the numbers unless Apple released the figures.

"Cracking the order numbers" does not count as accurate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

Assuming the IDs are sequential, anyway. Surely Apple isn't that dumb?

Given the hype is this really meaningful? I think regardless of whether this device is a stunning success or a total flop they were always going to sell a huge number up front.

I wouldn't bet against Apple selling that many, but some people are sticklers for cold, hard facts. ;-)

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