Fortune has been keeping track of an effort to round up U.S. iPad pre-order numbers. Demand has fallen off after the first three days it was available for pre-order.
According to Daniel Tello, the Venezuelan blogger-analyst who has been tracking order numbers submitted by volunteers at Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity board, orders on Saturday and Sunday slowed to an estimated 1,000 per hour.
Tello predicts that Apple may receive as many as 500,000 iPad pre-orders before the device goes on sale April 3rd.
“My best guess, although very tentative given the early stage and few data we have so far, would be that they hit the 1 million unit milestone by the second week after it ships,” he told Fortune. “But this is a very speculative guesstimate based on just a weekend of pre-orders.”
Tello calculates these numbers based on a sampling of Order ID numbers from Apple customers which are adjusted for non-iPad product sales. The current average works out to be around 1.125 iPads per order.
Chart courtesy of Fortune.
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