Following up on this morning's announcement from AT&T that they had busted sales records of the new iPad on launch day, Apple has also announced the sales numbers of their third-generation iOS tablet. Since Friday, three million new iPads have been sold, making this Apple's best iPad launch to date. While that's insane and awesome, there's still a lot of the world that has yet to get in on the action; this Friday, the new iPad goes on sale in Spain, Belgium, Mexico, Italy, Norway, Sweden and another 18 countries.
For better or worse, I can't even imagine other tablet manufacturers coming close to this kind of success in the near or distant future. Here's the press release.
New iPad Tops Three Million
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apple® today announced it has sold three million of its incredible new iPad®, since its launch on Friday, March 16. The new iPad features a stunning new Retina™ display, Apple’s new A5X chip with quad-core graphics, a 5 megapixel iSight® camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video, and still delivers the same all-day 10 hour battery life* while remaining amazingly thin and light. iPad Wi-Fi + 4G supports ultrafast 4G LTE networks in the US and Canada, and fast networks around the world including those based on HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA.**
“Customers are loving the incredible new features of iPad, including the stunning Retina display, and we can't wait to get it into the hands of even more customers around the world this Friday.” “The new iPad is a blockbuster with three million sold―the strongest iPad launch yet,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Customers are loving the incredible new features of iPad, including the stunning Retina display, and we can't wait to get it into the hands of even more customers around the world this Friday.” The new iPad is already available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Switzerland, UK and the US Virgin Islands and will be available in 24 more countries starting at 8:00 a.m. local time on Friday, March 23 through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers, including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. The new iPad Wi-Fi models are available in black or white for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model, $699 (US) for the 64GB model. iPad Wi-Fi + 4G for either AT&T or Verizon is available for a suggested retail price of $629 (US) for the 16GB model, $729 (US) for the 32GB model and $829 (US) for the 64GB model. iPad is sold in the US through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. Additionally, the incredible iPad 2 is now offered at a more affordable price of $399 (US) for the 16GB Wi-Fi model and just $529 (US) for the 16GB Wi-Fi + 3G model.
Reader comments
Apple has already sold three million new iPads
$1B in less than a week. Insane!
No wonder they decided to give money back this morning. :)
1.5 billion, actually - considering the cheapest iPad value (499). So, it actually might be something around 2 billion.
seriously 3 million in 4 days its not that much better than the 2nd generation i mean its thicker, heavier the camera and the retina display is better, its more expensive and it has voice recognition but apart from that what is the difference
Quad core graphics, 1GB ram, and it's not more expensive. Do research before you make yourself sound like an idiot.
I agree with Gozzyx1, just a bunch of iSheep Apple's taking advantage of with their minor tweaks. Nothing all that great really..
If by a bunch of iSheep you mean 3,000,000 people (and counting), you are so right, it's nothing great.
Do you own one? Have you even held or toyed with the new one? Gotta love how people talk crap about technology they don't own.
Man that's alot of iPads.
Impressive.
The accessory department at Best Buy looks empty for the new iPad. I noticed tags on what was left state "iPad 3" and some say "the new iPad". They do not know what to call it, but accessories are making the big bucks also.
In fact, it is in the accessories where stores really make most of the profit.
On an unrelated note, be sure to visit http://store.imore.com for all of your new iPad accessory needs! ;)
Oh come on Simon!!
Not surprised as a lot of people skipped the iPad 2. I also find it funny that AT&T smoked Verizon in sales. Everybody seems to think their the worst but when it comes to sales of iPhones, iPads, and curtain Samsung android phones and BB's they smoke Verizon. I myself love them. their service and coverage is great where I live. I can't say the same when I had Verizon. Poor network coverage and nickel and dime me.
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