Within just two weeks of sales of the iPad Apple has sold hundreds of thousands of units already as is claimed by the sources.As is apparent now that iPad is all set to outsell the iPhone breaking its record sales and could sell more iPads in the first three months than the number of iPhones sold during the same period after its debut. Several sources have agreed to The Wall Street Journal that Apple has “sold hundreds of thousands” of iPads since it was put up for presale. The latest tally is 190,000 through midday Friday the 19th. A problem with these estimates is that these numbers are probably conservative as these numbers don’t mean actual sales only as they don’t factor in bulk corporate purchases, or devices ordered for pickup in stores.
For the late starters ‘The iPad’ is the Apple’s newest invention designed to surf the Web and read newspapers and books on the go.
The company Apple Inc. is now busy trying to secure content for the device is alerting developers that they have only a week’s time to prepare iPad apps and submit them for review if they want them to be in the App Store on April 3. It is required that the developers must build their apps using beta 5 of the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK and should be submitted by 5pm PDT on March 27 so that they get an initial review by Apple.
Apple has reduce its initial ambitions for the launch of the iPad now and is trying to reach at an agreement with at least some media groups for the supply of content for the iPad at an discounted rate. The company has discarded by now his idea of offering a subscription television service that could be seen on the iPad. Some companies are weighing the advantages of working with Apple, they fear that a price cut will affect their business today. Apple is also expected to postpone some of these plans to focus on other content. Many newspaper and magazine publishers have expressed concern that the iPad not work with Flash video system from Adobe Systems, that is used by many companies in to display their multimedia content. In addition to these problems, some accessories for the touch screen device are also delayed. The keyboard / charging station and USB Power Adapter 10W not be available until May, one month after launch.
However, what it surely on the offer is the new iBooks virtual library, which allows owners of an iPad buy and read digital books. The major publishers are expected to file most of their titles and the iPad should have the most books offered by other competing products like the Kindle from Amazon.com.
Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs has described iPad as “magical and revolutionary”, which the users are excitedly awaiting.