Apple does n’t waffle to trumpet its success , but its first public acknowledgement of iPad mini sales is mostly noteworthy for how much it does n’t say .
The caller ’s crowing this forenoon focused on total iPad possibility weekend sale of three million ; that ’s iPad mini and fourth - generation iPads combined . And , for all we sleep with , still - uncommitted iPad 2 sale as well . It ’s a healthy number , no question , and one that would be the enviousness of Amazon and Google and Microsoft no matter what the partitioning . Still , the fact that Apple ’s chosen not to be more chondritic — and that it did n’t sell out of what was widely trust to be a supply - constrained Cartesian product — might give some pause . From the press departure :
Apple ® today announced it has sell three million iPads in just three days since the launching of its raw iPad ® mini and fourth generation iPad - double the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi - Fi only models sold for the third generation iPad in March .
Apple trade three million total retina iPads its opening weekend in March , but was usable in only 12 countries . The iPad mini and iPad 4 were available in 34 countries at launch ( and are two products , not one ) , so it ’s not exactly an apples to apple equivalence .
Again , three million tablet in three days is a lot of tab , no doubt about that . But there ’s enough twist here to a top up for day , which makes you wonder if the iPad mini did n’t live up to someone’s — or everyone’s — arithmetic mean . [ Apple ]
Update : Apple hasconfirmed with AllThingsDthat the three million issue includes only the current - propagation iPad and iPad miniskirt .
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