Apple Inc. said Monday that sales of the iPad have topped 1 million units less than one month after the touch-screen tablet device first went on sale.
The company released the WiFi version of the iPad on April 3, while devices that connect to 3G wireless networks went on sale Friday. Sales have already outstripped initial Wall Street estimates, and the company cannot fully meet all the demand. The company plans to launch the device in international markets later this month.
Most analysts had been expecting Apple to sell between 1 million and 2 million iPad units for the quarter ending in June. “One million iPads in 28 days -- that's less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement.
Jobs said demand continues to outpace supply and that the company “is working hard" to try to produce iPads at a faster rate.
Apple also said iPad users have downloaded more than 12 million applications from the company's App Store, as well as more than 1.5 million electronic books. The company is pitching the iPad as an alternative to the popular Kindle e-reader device from Amazon.com, though the latter has never disclosed sales figures for its device.
The company released the WiFi version of the iPad on April 3, while devices that connect to 3G wireless networks went on sale Friday. Sales have already outstripped initial Wall Street estimates, and the company cannot fully meet all the demand. The company plans to launch the device in international markets later this month.
Most analysts had been expecting Apple to sell between 1 million and 2 million iPad units for the quarter ending in June. “One million iPads in 28 days -- that's less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement.
Jobs said demand continues to outpace supply and that the company “is working hard" to try to produce iPads at a faster rate.
Apple also said iPad users have downloaded more than 12 million applications from the company's App Store, as well as more than 1.5 million electronic books. The company is pitching the iPad as an alternative to the popular Kindle e-reader device from Amazon.com, though the latter has never disclosed sales figures for its device.
