While Apple was busy selling three million iPads over the weekend, a group of analysts were hunkered down at the company's retail stores across the country watching inventory dry up at many of them.
AppleInsider is reporting that the iPad mini appears to be selling out at a number of Apple retail stores across the nation following a three-day launch weekend that saw three million iPads walk out the door.
Analyst Brian White and a fleet of his colleagues at Topeka Capital Markets headed to a number of Apple Stores from coast to coast over the weekend and discovered than nearly 60 percent of them were out of stock on the new iPad mini.
Perhaps more telling, of those with stock remaining, all of them had sold out of the entry-level 16GB model, which starts at $329; by comparison, 90 percent had sold out of the 32GB black and slate model, which 76 percent had run dry on the 32GB white and silver edition.
Meanwhile, AppleInsider is also noting that Apple has started taking online reservations for next-day, in-store pickup at Apple retail stores, much as it has done in the past with the iPhone 5 and other products.
Those interested in using the reservation system can visit the Apple Online Store at 10pm local time, when stock is updated for the next day.
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