re: #229 Cannadian Club Akbar

From the WSJ article you linked:

Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, said Apple could sell 200,000 to 300,000 iPads over the weekend and 2.8 million over the course of 2010. Research firm iSuppli Corp. predicted that 7.1 million iPads will sell world-wide this year, with sales nearly tripling to 20.1 million by 2012.

However:

Analyst: Apple sold 600-700 thousand iPads the first day

Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst, Gene Munster, on Saturday said he believes Apple sold between 600-700 thousand iPads on the first day. This includes the pre-orders that would have been coming in since March 12.

These new sales predictions are well above the 200-300 thousand units Munster previously expected Apple to sell on the first day.

Because there were many “pick ups” of previously ordered (online) iPads more units were of course moved than people just walking in off the street would otherwise have purchased.