iPad sales may overcome those of the iPhone in the first three months

Mar 19, 2010 11:24 GMT  ·  By

The waiting has apparently become unbearable for the fans of the iPad around the world. Since iPad pre-orders opened last Friday, customers have already purchased over 400,000 tablet devices, according to several reports. Cultofmac reported, quoting a Venezuelan blogger’s opinion, that Apple might sell 200,000 iPads online by mid-Friday for delivery, and an equal number meant for pick-up at Apple retail stores.

Appleinsider posted an even more courageous prediction saying that, “Apple is on pace to potentially sell more iPads in its first three months than it sold iPhones in the three months after the touch-screen handset made its debut back in 2007,” apparently quoting some reliable opinions in this respect of people acquainted with Apple’s market behavior.

The source added that Apple was running the ultimate preparations for the launch of the announced iPad on April, 3, closing up some important licensing deals. The source related that The Wall Street Journal claimed that, unofficially, Apple was trying to pressure television networks into decreasing the prices of TV shows that users were to download on their personal devices. Furthermore, the Cupertino, California-based company had augmented a mystery aura around itself regarding the new ways of displaying digital content to newspapers, textbook publishers and magazines.

“But nailing down the content has proven difficult as some potential collaborators weigh the advantages of working with Apple against the potential threats to their current sources of revenue,” the Wall Street Journal commented, according to AppleInsider.

The report correlates this piece of news with a past one by an online Apple investor community, which commented that, “Apple sold 120,000 units on its first day of availability, though excitement is estimated to have dropped considerably on days two and three.”

But, despite this decrease in pre-order sales, AppleInsider noted, the iPad had been forecasted to sell over one million units on its first year, as also estimated in The Wall Street Journal.