Little known fact: The iPad 2 is selling well. Like, really well. Just how well, you ask? According to Digitimes, Apple shipped 2.4-2.6 million iPads in March, and according to a conservative source those numbers are set to almost double during the second quarter.
Sales of iPad 2 are running at a rate faster than its predecessor, and Apple took delivery of 2.4-2.6 million units in March. Apple is likely to take delivery of 4-4.3 million units a month, or a total of over 12 million units, of iPad 2 tablets in the second quarter, said the sources.
Upwards of 50 million iPad 2's being sold, and that's a conservative guess. Craziness!
While we're on the subject of craziness, Deutsche Bank released an estimate of sales for what is considered to be the most credible iPad 2 competitor, the Motorola Xoom, and, well, it isn't pretty. How many Xooms have been sold? A paltry 100,000, and there's already talk that Motorola's set to shortly wind down production of the Honeycomb-festooned tablet.
The runway sure does seem pretty clear for the iPad to continue to own the tablet market for the foreseeable future. Rock on, Apple. Rock on.
Via 9to5mac, Business Insider
hamsammich
April 06, 2011 at 4:48pm
..."real" tablet out there. Unification of Android is the ONLY thing that will save it as a lasting alternative to iOS. Fragmentation is bad, bad, bad for everybody involved, especially the end-user. Google wants their OS to be open, but therein lies the problem.
I know I personally added to these stellar sales numbers for the iPad 2. I'll give again for the 3, etc.
Mr. Happypants
April 06, 2011 at 7:31pm
Agreed. Remember when Apple squashed the clone hardware? I do, I grabbed a PowerComputing tower as they were shutting the doors on them. It was necessary to strengthen the brand, Android needs to learn the same lesson or suffer.
Signed,
A New iPad2 Owner
