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First day iPad sales may exceed iPhone’s

First day iPad sales may exceed iPhone’s

Apple stores around the country were busy Saturday, but supplies of the iPad tablet generally seemed to meet consumer demand on the first day of sales.

However, according to analysts, Apple may have sold more iPads on Saturday than they did iPhones on that device’s first day.

John Boudreau covered the launch from Silicon Valley and reports, “Apple did not provide details of opening-day sales.

But Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who had predicted that as many as 300,000 iPads would be sold this weekend, revised his numbers upward Saturday to between 600,000 and 700,000 units purchased on the first day.” The iPhone sold 270,000 units at its launch.

Predictions for full-year iPad sales range from 5 million to 7 million globally.

[Thanks: http://www.poynter.org]

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