Apple sells 14.8 iPads per hour on Black Friday, 75% of stores sold out of iPhone 4S
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According to Apple Insider, Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore and his team surveyed more than 200 Apple Stores on Black Friday in the U.S. to evaluate the demand for items like the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
The numbers were staggering. Whitmore found that 75 percent of Apple stores were sold out of the iPhone 4S and about 50 percent of AT&T stores were sold out over the weekend following Black Friday.
It wasn't just Apple Stores that were included. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Best Buy Walmart and Target added a collective 100 locations to the research.
A separate study conducted by Gene Munster for asset management firm Piper Jaffray found that about 14.8 iPads were sold per hour on Black Friday. That number bumps Apple's sales up 68 percent from last year.
Looks like there's room for both the Kindle Fire and the iPad under the Christmas tree.
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- 14.8 iPads/hr X 24 hrs in black friday = 355.2 iPads sold. This is hardly a big achievement. Was this perhaps 14.8/min? that would be 21,312 iPads sold, still average at best for Apple. if 14.8/second, that would be 1.27 million iPads sold in one day, which would be amazingly good for Apple. So good in fact, that someone should write a news blurb about it.
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- Looks like the reporter didn't bother to crunch numbers or perhaps didn't read the figures correctly in the first place. Either that or Gene Munster is in the wrong business. :-)
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- what a bunch of dumb consumers! has no one noticed the crappy cameras and crappy OS on the ipad? what is everyone doing!? there are much better options around with Ice Cream Sandwich! People just wasted a lot of money! There should be a mandatory technology class in pre school and high school!
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