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iPad Pre-Orders top 240,000?
Fortune reports that iPad pre orders may of topped 250,000 before anyone has even held the thing!
Pre-orders for Apple’s (AAPL) tablet computer held steady a week before its April 3 release.
According to an update posted Friday morning — two weeks to the day after Apple began accepting online orders — an estimated 240,000 iPads had been pre-ordered for delivery.
Daniel Tello, who has been tracking order numbers submitted by volunteers, notes that this does not include iPads reserved for pick-up at Apple Stores, which the Boy Genius reports were pouring in the first weekend at the same rate as pre-orders. Nor does it include bulk orders by schools and businesses.
Speaking strictly about the pre-orders he tracks, Tello says a bookie might take odds at 300,000 units by April 3. “But the conservative in me,” he says, “would bet under. About 280k would be my safe prediction.”
At an average selling price of $640 per iPad, 280,000 units would yield nearly $18 million in gross revenue.
