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Where's the "Million Sold" announcement?

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Either the amount of iPads being sold is super low, or Apple is changing it's tune about hyping sales numbers? They must have sold over a million by now. Are they waiting to hit 10 million before making an announcement? Last year they hit 1 million in 28 days.... Analysts were predicting 500,000-1,000,000 over launch weekend alone this year...

Thoughts?
 
I wonder if they are allowed to count all of the unshipped online orders as sold units. I would think that even with the low supplies that over a million would have been ordered/sold by now, even if they haven't all shipped yet.

I also wonder if they are waiting until all of the other more important news stories quiet down a bit.
 
D12 said:
Million sold...600,000 in China.
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Regularly I'm surprised with Apple numbers but this time when Apple (and their followers) do start bragging about sales numbers then I'll have to roll my eyes since a sizable portion of the post-launch US iPads were indeed sold outside of the US.
 
Why should Apple pander to mindless curiosity?

As a public corporation Apple has an obligation to periodically report it sales in various categories. But beyond this, it has little interest in giving its competitors ANY information whatsoever as to how well its various products are doing.

If Apple announced - tomorrow - that it had sold 3 million iPads in the first week and a half of its introduction, all that would do is encourage more crappy "me too" products from the Samsungs, Acers, and Adam Inks of the world. And if, for whatever reason, it only sold 2 million during the "Black Friday" sales period, it would simply encourage iditiotic posts about how "iPad is losing its momentum.."

I have little doubt that by now Apple has well over a million iPad 2 units moved "into the channel" - and by that I mean in actual consumer's hands.

But beyond that, it is worth noting that this is a business. Its not a baseball game, where every development is recorded on some sort of scoreboard.
 
VrDrew,

That would make sense if Apple hadn't been regularly announcing sales milestones after the iPad 1 launch. I'd think if they'd hit 1 million they would have announced. Just now way there were 1 million units in the US already with the long ship times, long lines with not everyone getting one, and stock being held back for the international launch on Friday.
 
It took the first iPad 28 days to reach a million sales with a US and International release, its only been 13 days since the iPad 2 was released to the US only, other countries will begin selling it this friday.

Patience.
 
They'll probably make an announcement of how many were sold in April when they introduce iOS 5. I think that is when they made the first report last year.
 
They probably can annouce "1 Million Sold" but they would have to post a note below "Only 500,000 shipped."

Demand is there to sell that many, just not the supply.
 
vrDrew said:
Why should Apple pander to mindless curiosity?

As a public corporation Apple has an obligation to periodically report it sales in various categories. But beyond this, it has little interest in giving its competitors ANY information whatsoever as to how well its various products are doing.

If Apple announced - tomorrow - that it had sold 3 million iPads in the first week and a half of its introduction, all that would do is encourage more crappy "me too" products from the Samsungs, Acers, and Adam Inks of the world. And if, for whatever reason, it only sold 2 million during the "Black Friday" sales period, it would simply encourage iditiotic posts about how "iPad is losing its momentum.."

I have little doubt that by now Apple has well over a million iPad 2 units moved "into the channel" - and by that I mean in actual consumer's hands.

But beyond that, it is worth noting that this is a business. Its not a baseball game, where every development is recorded on some sort of scoreboard.
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And you would be right in line congratulating them if they announced it.
 
(to reference the two most insane threads on this board lately) they are not allowed to count the radioactive iPads, nor are they counting the ones bought by agents who bought them simply to return them to Apple so they could sell them again and hide their low supply numbers.
 
One million is no longer the bench mark... 100 billion is.
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shen said:
(to reference the two most insane threads on this board lately) they are not allowed to count the radioactive iPads, nor are they counting the ones bought by agents who bought them simply to return them to Apple so they could sell them again and hide their low supply numbers.
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Makes no sense for apple to hire agents to purchase ipads and return them to hide low supply. That would cost apple money. Trust me they want as many ipads in customer hands as possible. Once the customer has it they will then spend on accessories and apps that apple makes an even bigger profit margin on.
 
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