Apple Sold 3 Million iPads In 80 Days; 11,000 iPad Apps Now Available
Leena Rao
Jun 22, 2010

Apple has sold 3 million iPads in 80 days, according to a release issued by the company today. The statement also reported that there are 11,000 iPad apps available for the device.

On May 31, Apple reported that it had sold 2 million iPad, showing that the company has sold one million more tablet devices in less than a month. The company only started shipping units to customers in countries outside the United States in late May, which could account for the faster growth in sales.

At the 2 million mark, Apple said the iPad had over 5,000 new apps for the iPad. Clearly this number has more than doubled, to 11,000 total iPad apps. There’s no doubt that iPads are flying off the shelves, as Apple sold a million devices in less than a month.

As previously announced, the iPad will be available in nine more – but still unnamed – countries in July and additional countries later this year.

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  • http://ciftech.ro ciftech

    hmm where is MG he should be jumping now :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/jamiemval Jamie Val

    yay Apple is making stupid money..what else is new! lol

  • William Palmer

    e one in the wild, seen two in a shop but they were covered in sweaty fingerprints making them look very unsexy.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/vishi96 vishi96

    Its all due to enormous reputation of Apple's brands, their brand is a wonderful case study and I would love to know how they managed to build such a huge network.
    http://www.dumblittleblogger.com/

  • William Palmer

    What happened to the 'Yet to se' I typed before the lonesome 'e' at the beginning of the sentence.

  • http://twitter.com/m0d_ulus @m0d_ulus

    Sales are dying down much faster than expected, my company is putting a hold on developing apps until we really understand what the market penetration will be.

  • http://www.facebook.com/passeos EJ Passeos

    Even for Apple, this is truly remarkable. I thought the lack of a keyboard would be a problem for people looking at netbooks, too, but Jobs was right–again.

  • Jim

    Seigler's gonna have his "O Face" on all day after this!

  • http://www.webrewired.com/ Gravity

    Wow… Thats an impressive number but not even close to their iPod sales figures when it came out, i m guessing iPad will survive the market…

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/PACMan3000/ Paul A. Chapel

    Huh? Apple didn't even sell a million iPods in the first YEAR.

  • Se7en

    Two years to sell 1 million iPods
    74 days to sell 1 million iPhone 2Gs
    1 weekend to sell 1 million iPhone 3Gs
    1 day to pre-sell 600K iPhone 4s :p

  • Sim8

    oh! really? .. Did you read the article? or you just hate Apple because they don't support Crash.. ohh sorry I meant, Flash!

  • Se7en

    On hold? Damn, guess we'll have to go elsewhere for our Fart apps. :(

  • pankaj pandey

    this is bilourious not u ipad

  • http://www.3cci.in Roshan

    Apple will always create Innovative product.
    And iPad User Interface is really Cool.
    nice post…
    Thanks,
    (3cci.in)

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/reneeswifts reneeswifts

    Obviously, iPad's international sold out was a success. Especially in countries like Japan. Although, I believe it will be saturated on the next coming months, as people's interest shift on to the iPhone 4

  • Vatdoro

    "Sales are dying down much faster than expected"???

    Do you not have any reading comprehension skills? Apple sold 1M iPads in 28 days, 2M iPads in just under 2 months, and now 3M iPads just a few weeks later.
    iPad sales are INCREASING, not "dying down".

  • http://www.mirye.net Lynn Fredricks

    The numbers are very impressive, but I think some comparisons are flawed.

    The iPad has been "pre-sold" for quite some time through leaks, and it also rests on upsell from those who already have an iPhone or iPod. Selling people on the OS / experience is not as hard as it would have been had this been Apple's first mobile product.

    I think the apps numbers should go away like the word "magical". Ive seen too many "apps" which are simply web readers for content sites.

  • Michael

    They didn't build it by spamming if that's why you are implying

  • Garion

    Could you please explain by which strange metric iPad sales are "dying down" ?
    I'm no genius at math, but as far as I can tell from the numbers iPad sales are picking up speed if anything?

  • http://www.webservice.ro Webservice

    Name 2 products Apple produced lately and haven't been received well on the market. Anyway, just got one but i still love my iPod touch more than my newest toy. Anyway, it seems that everything with a small "i" in front of any Pod or Pad is selling millions. I guess people all over the world are still addicted with Apple products.

  • http://twitter.com/RedCPedestrian @RedCPedestrian

    Apple TV, Mac Air. And I'm sorry but less then 10% of the PC market is not "well received". thats 3.

  • http://www.darkwizard7.com Jonathan

    Ipad Looks Amazing From Videos on You tube in connection with touch technology and microsoft is outstanding we are all looking to be in a world called the matrix by september 2010 If Apple By any chance have a Ipad they looking to give away here i am ,would really appriciate such a fantastic piece of technology come to think of it i`ll be able to work anywhere sounds ausome well done Apple another great product ….

  • http://thecouponsapp.com The Coupons App

    I mean, what's so hard to change an iPhone app to an iPad app? That said, why haven't ALL the apps converted over? Shoot, why would your glorious God Steve even make the two not be cross-compatible in the first place? LOL

  • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/rajsarkar Raj Sarkar

    Apple has a very loyal fan base. 75% of iPad buyers are already Apple owners. The statistics of se7en is testament to that:

    Two years to sell 1 million iPods
    74 days to sell 1 million iPhone 2Gs
    1 weekend to sell 1 million iPhone 3Gs
    1 day to pre-sell 600K iPhone 4s :p

    What it means is that the loyal fan base is increasing with time!! There are 7.5M buyers in the technology innovators category (first stage of the technology adoption cycle). So it will be interesting to see how iPAD performs in the next few months.

  • HotPanini

    Honestly, I'd like to see someone validate their sales numbers – I'm in California and have seen exactly three people using iPads since they were released (outside of the Apple store anyway). One of them used it for work email and typing documents, but the other two cases were just playing casual games and reading.

    What are people using these for? It's pretty, but still seems pricey for Farmville and YouTube clips on the go.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/swiftmed Andrew MacDonald

    haha, bang on mate.

    That dumb little blogger got his name correct when choosing the domain. He certainly is DUMB!!

  • http://Twitter.com/cikn Chris Nwakalo

    So what your saying is that after only 20 more days on the shelves Apple reaching another million in sales is a decline??? Um, you sir are mistaken.

  • ?!?

    Just what is your definition of well received? Apple TV may be miniscule compared to the other products, but the market for it isn't that big either. It has had decent sales and turns a profit.

  • modest

    Do you by any chance live in Modesto?

  • http://www.facebook.com/figuremeout Craig Andre Hamilton

    I believe that was the intention.

    Apple, at least from the standpoint as a technology company, is developing tech towards what they can drive [control] prices for developing bleeding edge tech cheaper. The iPad, like the flash memory in the Nanos did for the Macbook Air, featured such tech that they're possibly looking to include into other future advancements and products (*cough iPhone 4's features)

  • http://www.facebook.com/figuremeout Craig Andre Hamilton

    That's up to the developer to do so, not Apple.

  • Krugeri

    Raj – I keep hearing that, as if the fact that Apple customers buying other Apple products negates the impressiveness of sales or portends an inevitable drop in momentum.

    Apple's "loyal fan base" as a dismissive is a gross misnomer. Since the opening of the Apple Retail Stores in 2001 Apple has reported that 50% of Mac sales have gone to individuals new to the platform. So the 'rabid' fan base that anti-Apple people like to dismiss when discussing initial sales of new products looks more and more like John and Jane Q Public everyday. They are either new to computing or moving from an existing platform.

    It is equally likely that people (normal, average folk) who experience Apple trust Apple and are likely to consider them when buying a new tech babble.

  • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/rajsarkar Raj Sarkar

    I am not arguing if it is good or bad either way – I am just merely stating the facts: http://www.slashgear.com/74-ipad-buyers-were-mac-...

    MAC having 12-15% penetration and iPhone 6% of the mobile ph market; don't you find a gross anomaly that 75% of iPad buyers are MAC owners & 66% are iPhone owners? What can u conclude?

    initial iPAD buyers -> loyal apple fans + technology innovators (2.5% of the mkt = 7.5M)

  • Phil

    Here's what's dumber: the apparent inability of the blogging software to automatically detect and remove any posts containing that, and other, spamming links.

  • http://smallbudgetweddingplan.com Weddingideas

    Appla's product always is good,i very love

  • http://www.tiainterweb.net domain names

    Nice post. Apple will always create Innovative product. Keep it up.

  • http://www.viewtechzone.com techzone

    hopefuly it will be faster distribute to asian country, oh i cant wait to get one ipad

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