Just back from the US. The continuing demand for iPads is astonishing. The release date in the UK has been pushed back a couple times. Now it's easy to see why. In the US, online orders look to be about 2-week delay in shipping. The apple store folks I talked to in CT revealed they have a 1-2 week backlog of reserved in-store customer orders, and it's the same with other stores in the area. I called the 5th avenue store to confirm. Yep, completely out of stock, even wifi-only models, not just the more recent 3G versions. The apple stores are getting new shipments every morning, but not nearly keeping up with the demand. Interesting.
we have a pool going at work for how many ipads apple will sell in CY 2010. My pre-launch estimate was (way) higher than all others, at 4.4 million.
ReplyDeletei expect i will be low.
Definitely seems low at this point.
ReplyDeleteThe Apple stores in Phoenix are swamped with customers, all looking for them. Traci works with a young lady whose bf is an Apple Genius on Phoenix's east side, and he said they get 50 in a day, and those 50 last 20 minutes.
ReplyDeleteWe were in the Aroowhead (MW PHX) store last weekend to find a MAC-HDMI cable and the Aplle store probably had 150 people bustling in it. Meanwhile, across the mall, the Windows store, trying so hard to LOOK like an Apple store, had all of 20 customers casually browsing. Ha!