iPad Sales Rumored to be in the “Hundreds of Thousands” Already

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How well did the iPad do in its first week you might ask? It looks like Apple’s first tablet sold quite well. We talked about unofficial numbers already and it was pretty clear that the device will sell very well even if customers haven’t actually had the chance to experience it so far.

The Wall Street Journal had access to inside sources that apparently said Cupertino “sold hundreds of thousands of the device” already. That must mean that Apple has sold at least 200k iPads already if not more since it has been reported earlier that in the first day alone Apple moved more than 120,000 units. Not a bad first week for Cupertino which goes to show, again, that Apple is not only very good at conceiving new devices but it is also very talented when it comes to pitching them to consumers and convincing them they absolutely need them, when in fact they really don’t.

According to some sources the iPad sales are going to surpass the sales of the original iPhone although, at least to me, that comparison only reflects one thing: Apple is better as selling stuff than it was before, and that’s really not a surprise anymore.

Even if the iPad is basically an iPhone on steroids, one can’t compare the two devices like that. The iPhone was the first smartphone from Apple, a company that didn’t have any experience in the mobile business at that time. Being a brand new technology, the original iPhone was also more expensive at first than the iPad and, most importantly, was tied to a carrier, which convinced some consumers not to buy it immediatelly.

The iPad comes three years later, a time in which Apple proved that it can take the smartphone business by surprise and rule it in a very short time frame. Thus the company can afford to make the iPad and future iPhones more affordable and not require consumers to sign up new 2-year agreements with AT&T or any other carrier for that matter, at least when it comes to iPad purchases.

Therefore, again, we are not surprised that Apple is doing well at selling the device nor are we really interested in iPhone vs iPad sales comparisons. What we are interested is what Apple will do to convince iPad users that they absolutely need an iPad in their lives. That’s right, folks, the iPad is all nice and dandy, even with the obvious flaws that it has, but content will be key to keeping early adopters from reselling it and moving to the next hot thing!