An analyst with a so-and-so track record of predictions has issued his estimates on the distance between the front entrance of a retail outlet carrying the iPad 2, and the last person standing in line.
Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster says the queues will be shorter than last year, when the iPad 1 was introduced. The reason? More distribution channels.
Some Apple
fanboys will argue that you don’t need a Wall Street analyst to release facts that are easily deductible by reading a couple of news stories before setting out to buy Apple's next-generation tablet computer.
By their conception, everyone should know that the iPad 2 will not only sell through Apple’s retail stores (as well as online), but also through Best Buy, Target, Walmart, AT&T, and Verizon.
Whether or not everyone is up to date with the iPad 2 availability, Munster is making sure everyone knows what to expect, and that includes investors.
Now, even if the lines
will be short, Munster still believes the iPad 2 will sell like hot cake.
His prognosis? Over 1 million iPad 2 units in less than 28 days, according to
Business Insider’s
SAI.
iPad 2 will launch on March 11, according to Apple’s official announcement during its
special event held in San Francisco last week.
The system ships with a special version of the iOS 4.3 installed, but that's not what gets the tech blogosphere talking about.
Not by far, actually. The discussions are hardware related. iPad 2 packs dual cameras, Apple’s all-new A5 chip with a reported 9x faster graphics, and the same 10-hour battery life.
What is regarded as the final nail in the competitors’ collective coffin, the iPad 2 is priced exactly as the original - starts at $499 for the base WiFi 16GB model.
Now
that will ensure lines at least outside Apple’s own stores where the faithful have
already started to camp out.
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