The Loop is reporting that Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst has released a report claiming that iPad sales were in the 600,000-700,000 range on launch day. Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst, Gene Munster, on Saturday said he believes Apple sold between 600-700 thousand iPads on the first day. This includes the pre-orders that would […]
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600,000-700,000 iPads Estimated To Have Been Sold on Launch Day

Apr 5th 2010 by

The Loop is reporting that Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst has released a report claiming that iPad sales were in the 600,000-700,000 range on launch day.

Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst, Gene Munster, on Saturday said he believes Apple sold between 600-700 thousand iPads on the first day. This includes the pre-orders that would have been coming in since March 12.

It is not known were Munster got his data for the estimate beyond observing the 730 customers at Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York. The 730 head count in up from the 350 at the iPhone 3GS launch and the 540 at the iPhone 3G launch.

Remember, this was the launch only in the U.S. and only the Wi-Fi model. This product is yet to be released internationally, and the Wi-Fi+3G model is due sometime later this month.

Can anyone doubt this is going to be big?

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