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[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Apple sells 3 million new iPads

CUPERTINO, California-March 19, 2012-Apple? today announced it has sold three million of its incredible new iPad?, since its launch on Friday, March 16. The new iPad features a stunning new RetinaTM display, Apple's new A5X chip with quad-core graphics, a 5 megapixel iSight? camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video, and still delivers the same all-day 10 hour battery life* while remaining amazingly thin and light. iPad Wi-Fi + 4G supports ultrafast 4G LTE networks in the US and Canada, and fast networks around the world including those based on HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA.**

"The new iPad is a blockbuster with three million sold-the strongest iPad launch yet," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "Customers are loving the incredible new features of iPad, including the stunning Retina display, and we can't wait to get it into the hands of even more customers around the world this Friday."

The new iPad is already available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Switzerland, UK and the US Virgin Islands and will be available in 24 more countries starting at 8:00 a.m. local time on Friday, March 23 through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple's retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers, including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

The new iPad Wi-Fi models are available in black or white for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model, $699 (US) for the 64GB model. iPad Wi-Fi + 4G for either AT&T or Verizon is available for a suggested retail price of $629 (US) for the 16GB model, $729 (US) for the 32GB model and $829 (US) for the 64GB model. iPad is sold in the US through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple's retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. Additionally, the incredible iPad 2 is now offered at a more affordable price of $399 (US) for the 16GB Wi-Fi model and just $529 (US) for the 16GB Wi-Fi + 3G model.

*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.

**4G LTE is supported only on AT&T and Verizon networks in the U.S. and on Bell, Rogers, and Telus networks in Canada. Data plans sold separately.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.

Source: Apple Press Release via The Verge

[Stetson]

Not bad. I think the iPad 2 was estimated at about 500,000-1,000,000 in its opening weekend.

[Tom]

The hipsters are out in masses.

[Buttus]

not to de-rail the topic, but when did the name change from Macintosh to just Macs?

"Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, ..."

(and why haven't they sued McDonalds for selling Big Macs?)

[Tom]

"Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, ..."

(and why haven't they sued McDonalds for selling Big Macs?)

:rofl:

[Mulrian]

Has the world gone completely mad?

[guru]

Microsoft is toast!!!

[Tom]

Microsoft is toast!!!

I'm sure they're shivering in their timbers having made only 70$billion last year.

[.Neo]

Has the world gone completely mad?

Face it, Apple launched a great product people want and enjoy using. There's no denying it anymore.

[Charisma Veteran]

Biased article is biased. Made me laugh. Good for them, though. There are cheaper options that are just as good (or better, depending on what type of user you are and what you want to do), but you know what they say about fools and their money ;)

[Miuku.]

Irony if I ever saw it; every Apple thread is essentially a red flag for the Microsoft guys to come troll it yet back when the roles were reversed, people were up in arms and demanding bans/warnings for people doing it.

O tempora, O mores.

[Tom]

Serious question to iPad 3 users.

Are the lense-less glasses supplied in the box or sold seperately?

I get it Tom, this news must be extremely painful for you.

I saw your 4x edit.

e/ make that 5x.

e/ make that 6x.

[.Neo]

Serious question to iPad 3 users.

Are the lense-less glasses supplied in the box or sold seperately?

I get it Tom, this news must be extremely painful for you. Why not go to bed early tonight? Maybe things will look better in the morning. If not you can always get a prescription for some antidepressants.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I get it Tom, this news must be extremely painful for you.

The less attention is paid to his anti-Apple trolling the better.

[Pow]

I get people are always like there are cheaper maybe better alternatives. But honestly I bought an iPad 3 more so just for portability. I've looked at alternatives and they just don't seem to flow as well as iOS. There's always that little bit of stuttering. That's the one thing I like about ios. The smoothness.

By all means I want android to get better hopefully be doing as well as apple but at the moment I think apple are just ahead at the moment. I really wanted a transformer prime but was just a bit too pricey for my liking.

Overall though well done apple, I wouldn't say it's a crap product because it's not and I wouldn't say it's an amazing product. The main feature is just the screen and 4g. But people buying just for the sake of it being made by apple is stupid, just don't assume that everyone thinks like that.

[.Neo]

I saw your 4x edit.

That's okay.

The less attention is paid to his anti-Apple trolling the better.

What's the fun in that?

[+Heartripper Subscriber¹]

Face it, Apple launched a great product people want and enjoy using. There's no denying it anymore.

This is what really matters. People want what Apple produces.

[.Neo]

This is what really matters. People want what Apple produces.

Not without reason. If the products weren't attractive one way or the other people wouldn't still be buying. It's that simple really.

[Livin in a box]

I get people are always like there are cheaper maybe better alternatives. But honestly I bought an iPad 3 more so just for portability. I've looked at alternatives and they just don't seem to flow as well as iOS. There's always that little bit of stuttering. That's the one thing I like about ios. The smoothness.

By all means I want android to get better hopefully be doing as well as apple but at the moment I think apple are just ahead at the moment. I really wanted a transformer prime but was just a bit too pricey for my liking.

Overall though well done apple, I wouldn't say it's a crap product because it's not and I wouldn't say it's an amazing product. The main feature is just the screen and 4g. But people buying just for the sake of it being made by apple is stupid, just don't assume that everyone thinks like that.

And I think this is the problem with anti-Apple people. They generalise and think that anyone who buys an Apple product just wants one because of the name which is just completely wrong. Sure, there are always going to be those who think like that - there's people like that with every company - but too many people say that every single person out of the 3 million who bought an iPad 3 is just after it because it has a bitten Apple on the back of it which is just wrong.

I would like an iPad but the only problem for me is the cost; I would go for a cheaper alternative but as you say the Android tablets just don't feel as smooth as iOS does and Windows 8 doesn't really interest me on a tablet. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Android fan, I have an Android smartphone, but on a tablet it just doesn't seem as smooth as iOS is. And that's the main reason why I'd choose an iPad over any other Android tablet, not because it's got 4 GPU cores or lots of pixels that is barely noticeable with the naked eye.

[PyX]

Not bad. I think the iPad 2 was estimated at about 500,000-1,000,000 in its opening weekend.

Not bad ? Tell me which tablet has sold so well before. The iPad is a first.

However, I am rather surprised by this number. Were people only waiting for a retina display ? Because the iPad 2 had more changes as opposed to iPad 1, as compared to the new iPad and the iPad 2. I would have expected better sales for the iPad 2, not the new iPad.

[Growled Member]

That's a lot of iPads. Apple did good getting enough ready to cover all the early orders without running out.

[Roger H. Veteran]

I'm not trolling and or anti-apple but I always see people saying how people buying these devices know they are good and don't just buy it for the Apple name. I ask you how do they know they are so good? Are you trying to say all they all had early access to know it's SOOOO good that they had to have it or did they buy it because it's an Apple device? Surely lots of people bought it mostly to upgrade from their old iPad and they know those are great, they've had it for a while and it's been awesome but that doesn't guarantee the new version to be better than the old. Most of these people bought it simply because it's a new Apple device, first time iDevice buyers included.

As I said, i'm no troll or anything like that but if they sold 3 million over the course of a quarter i'd agree with you that they just have a great product. You can call this like the Tickle Me Elmo junk of a few years back. That thing wasn't "great" by any means, it was just what everyone wanted to have and got caught up in the media frenzy. There was no reason for people to be going that crazy over a simple little doll that didn't do much. I am not saying the iPad is a bad device, i'm just saying nobody knew it was going to be great. The main reason people bought it is because of Apple's reputation and the name "Apple" - this iPad could have sucked (highly unlikely but not impossible) and they would have had millions of returns, but that still wouldn't stop them from saying, "Oh yeah, we sold 3 million the first 3 days" and it would be an accurate statement.

Apple has had duds, Microsoft and any other tech giant out there selling millions of products yearly. It's possible and it happens all the time but nobody wants to admit that Apple is just riding on a high right now. They don't make devices that are so much better than anything else out there, they just happen to make the things that people want right now, good reasons or not it's just what they want.

[FiB3R]

Surely lots of people bought it mostly to upgrade from their old iPad and they know those are great, they've had it for a while and it's been awesome but that doesn't guarantee the new version to be better than the old.

It pretty much does, that's kinda the whole basis of the "upgrade" cycle. Baring a huge fail on Apples part, which would cause uproar, it was always going to be better in one way or another.

[liquidguru]

This is the first time the iPad has been released worldwide on the same date. Usually it comes out first in the States, then a few weeks later everywhere else. The figures are very impressive, but cannot be directly compared with previous releases.

[qdave]

The hipsters are out in masses.

Are you really a hipster if you buy most popular thing out there? :D