Apple Sold 90,000 iPads in 6 Hours [Apple Makes $54 Million in Its First iPad Pre-Order Day, Doesn’t Care About iPad Haters]

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Remember folks, these are unconfirmed numbers but it looks like Apple has managed to sell over 90,000 iPad units in the first day alone. In fact you’ll notice that this report covers only a quarter of the first day of iPad pre-orders and the estimated sales amount to $54 million. Naturally these numbers haven’t been confirmed by Apple so far but we can only assume that iPad sales are going as planned if not better.

So how did people count the numbers of iPads sold? We already told you since yesterday that Apple sold 50,000 units in the first two hours but true Apple fans found a way to measure Apple’s sales performance through the day. The APPL Sanity Board at Investor Village arranged sales in a spreadsheet and managed to come up with an average number of iPads sold through the Apple Online Store.

The only problem with these estimates is that everyone is assuming that the order numbers are sequential. In case Apple decided to give random order numbers to its iPad customers in order to prevent bloggers from actually guessing the number of iPads sold then the estimates will have no value.

The order number also don’t account for multiple iPad sales or for in-store pick-ups, which don’t get order numbers. Therefore we can assume that that Apple has sold even more iPads in day one than we actually expected. Of course if the order number is indeed sequential but also includes other products in the Apple Online Store, as it should be logical, then the number of iPads sold should be slightly lower than estimated.

We will definitely be waiting for Apple to brag with iPad sales and I am sure they will do just that if everything goes according to plan. Unlike Amazon or Palm, two companies that never mentioned the number of Kindle or Palm Pre sold at various points in time, Apple has always bragged with numbers. That’s spectacular! Phenomenal I might add! In what way? Well in convincing others to buy the iPad, since, you know, customers are like cattle sometimes. We will just go in the same direction everyone is going even if the grass might be greener on the other side.

How many iPads have you pre-ordered already?