The iPad is quickly becoming a boom product for Apple and it is now outselling Macs and quickly catching the iPhone. RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky has been quoted by Digital Daily as saying- “Checks indicate that US iPad sales remain strong post-launch, driven by rising consumer visibility to iPad’s user experience, sustained PR/word-of-mouth marketing, 3G iPad launch, and broadening iPad apps/content,” Abramsky wrote in a note to clients this morning. “We believe Apple is now selling >200k iPads/week, greater than US Macs (est. 110k Macs/week) and just below US iPhone 3GS first quart (246k/week).”
I personally don’t think the iPad is affecting Mac sales, but would like to see a lower priced Mac available in the near future. Anything near £500 would sell like hot cakes.
No surprises here really. iPad is great.
Gav, have you got yours yet? Apple is clever I suppose, getting away from 100% hardware sales from position 5 years ago and trying to make money from both device cost and then content costs nowadays.
The money Apple makes from music/video/software sales is a mere trickle compared to what it makes from hardware – however, it’s always good to have multiple streams of income. The retail stores also make a solid contribution to the bottom line.
Murray not yet. Get it delivered to home on official release day of 28. Got 10 different ipad cases, 3 screen protectors, capacitive stylus and Bluetooth keyboard. Murray check on Twitter @gavinfabiani today for photo of all my cases.
I read that apple sells 110,000 macs per week, 246,000 iPhones and at moment 200,000 ipads per week. That big numbers and only accounts for US sales at moment!
“The money Apple makes from music/video/software sales is a mere trickle compared to what it makes from hardware…”
But without those, hardware sales would be affected- the content drives the hardware, especially the iPhone, iPods and iPad.
Absolutely.
Gav, superb selection of cases….good on you!