iPad preorders may beat iPhone sales
Few outside of Apple have actually ever seen an iPad in real life. But that fact hasn't stopped the stampede for a rush of preorders for the touch-screen tablet device.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has "sold hundreds of thousands" of iPads since the device went on presale March 12. If things don't change a lot, Apple could end up selling more iPads in the first three months than the original iPhones sold the first three months after their launch!
It's unclear if that means actual sales only, or if that includes reservations for in-store pickups of the device. Apple.com is taking reservations for customers who want to pick up a device in a store on the first day of sale, April 3, but it doesn't require a credit card to be put down. That means if they don't pick up the device by 3 p.m. that day the iPad reservation is canceled. In other words, a reservation should not yet be counted as a sale, but again it's not entirely clear how the iPad presales are being counted.
Negotiations are ongoing between Apple and media companies for discounted TV shows via iTunes, according to the some reports. Partnerships between Apple and newspapers, magazines, and textbook publishers are also still yet to be cemented, and have "been put on the backburner" in favor of other types of content, the reports say.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has "sold hundreds of thousands" of iPads since the device went on presale March 12. If things don't change a lot, Apple could end up selling more iPads in the first three months than the original iPhones sold the first three months after their launch!
It's unclear if that means actual sales only, or if that includes reservations for in-store pickups of the device. Apple.com is taking reservations for customers who want to pick up a device in a store on the first day of sale, April 3, but it doesn't require a credit card to be put down. That means if they don't pick up the device by 3 p.m. that day the iPad reservation is canceled. In other words, a reservation should not yet be counted as a sale, but again it's not entirely clear how the iPad presales are being counted.
Negotiations are ongoing between Apple and media companies for discounted TV shows via iTunes, according to the some reports. Partnerships between Apple and newspapers, magazines, and textbook publishers are also still yet to be cemented, and have "been put on the backburner" in favor of other types of content, the reports say.
