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Apple Sells Over 300,000 iPads on Debut
Apr 6, 2010
By Deborah Yao, from nzherald.co.nz
NEW YORK - Apple says that it sold more than 300,000 iPads on its opening day, meeting the expectations of some analysts while underscoring the challenges the company still faces marketing the much-anticipated device beyond early adopters.
In a research note earlier yesterday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster had doubled his initial forecast of first-day sales to 600,000 to 700,000, saying that "lines were longer than expected and supply was also better than expected."
The iPad now on sale, at prices starting at US$499, connects to the internet wirelessly through Wi-Fi. Apple is confident of getting wide support from this ‘smart device’ that is a bridge between smartphones and laptops.
"It feels great to have the iPad launched into the world - it's going to be a game changer," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "iPad users, on average, downloaded more than three apps and close to one book within hours of unpacking their new iPad," he added.
Following is a list of Apple iPad sales photos:
Boxes of new Apple iPads are unloaded in the back of an Apple Store in San Francisco.
People wait in line to purchase the iPad outside the Apple store on Fifth Avenue in New York.
People record the opening of the Apple Store in Palo Alto, California, in preparation of the launch and sale of the iPad.
Apple workers open the door on the first day of Apple iPad sales at an Apple store in San Francisco.
Three Apple workers cheer as the first customers buy an Apple iPad at an Apple Store in San Francisco.
A customer celebrates as one of the first customers to buy an iPad inside an Apple store in San Francisco.
Apple workers cheer as the first iPad customers walk through the door at an Apple store in San Francisco.
iPads are sold at the Apple store on Fifth Avenue in New York.
Andres Schobel shows off his new iPad as one of the first customers to buy an iPad at an at an Apple Store in San Francisco.
Fourteen-month-old Beckett Kraus holds an Apple iPad his parents purchased at the Apple Store in Palo Alto, California.
