Apple Stores Still Struggling To Keep The iPad In Stock
If you're still without iPad, and looking to pluck one from an Apple store, you may be running into trouble finding one according to a survey that was done by J.P. Morgan. The unit is still continuing to sell out even into Week 2.
The survey was of 15 different Apple retail stores, which found that 11 of the stores had the 64 GB version available for buying, and only 4 stores had stock of 16 GB and only 4 had the 32 GB model.
"While the sample stores represent a small fraction of the 221 U.S.-based Apple stores, we believe the targeted stores offer a decent barometer given their geographic distribution and importance," according to analyst Mark Moskowitz.
As an example, some stores that were selling out of all 3 iPad versions when the survey was conducted included the Palo Alto, Greenwich - CT, and Miami Beach stores. But yet at the same time, stores in Chicago, San Francisco and Kansas City had no inventory issues at all.
The word on the street is that Apple has sold over half a million iPads in less than 10 days. Moskowitz thinks that the adoption of the upcoming 3G iPad models could be a lot lighter than the WiFi ones released this month, due to the price and data plans involved.
"While the initial excitement could ease, we are surprised by the continued strength in the early stages," Moskowitz continued. "In addition to the new category entry of the iPad, another positive element is that the product's gross margins are accretive to the corporate model."
Apple's online store is still continuing to list times of 5-7 business days for the shipment of new WiFi iPad orders.
Upon visiting my own local Apple store this weekend, there were still throngs of people around the iPad display. For our readers out there, have you ran into trouble finding any iPad units in stock? Does the excitement still seem to be there? Feel free to leave comments below!
via AppleInsider
patmarkzs
October 28, 2010 at 12:19pm
I used a product tracker at findstocknow that worked for me. The ipad 64gb with wi-fi and 3G is hard to find.
invaderjason
April 13, 2010 at 5:37am
If anyone is familiar with Apple's marketing scheme the past couple of years, the price is going to drop within 6 to 12 months. I have that itch to buy anything new Apple releases, but this time I will wait for all the kinks to get worked out and that price to come down some. Hopefully by that time HTML5 will be more widely accepted so I don't have to see blue boxes on many of the websites I'd like to see on the iPad.
Svein_Jarle
April 13, 2010 at 2:36am
Really? Crap! My girlfriend has got 12 hrs in NYC while waiting for a connecting flight (towards Europe), and the plan was all along to go and buy the iPad in that time. I am going to call the Apple Stores in the area once they're open to check.EDIT: Called the Apple Store on 5th ave., and he could confirm that the NYC-stores, to his knowledge, are all sold out. There may be a shipment coming today, and he told me to call back after 9am to check.
eperez21
April 12, 2010 at 11:25pm
Theres 6 stores in NYC that Sells the iPad but no one has them in stock!!
edcowdenvoice
April 12, 2010 at 9:42pm
Of course it's in low supply - it just came out.
But when are they releasing the 3G model already? Apple's site has said "Late April" forever...it's practically mid-April and still no firm date? Argh!
stevengu
April 12, 2010 at 9:06pm
Given the design and the wide-range functionality of the product, it is not unusual that it would sell out.
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