Apple has announced a few hours a new sales record achieved, this time, the new iPadthird generation, within 4 days, has reached and surpassed the three million units sold .Once again, a figure beyond the expectations and forecasts, which is unequaled in the industry.
With a official press Apple announced more than three million new iPad sold in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the U.S. Virgin Islands in just four days on Friday 16 Saturday 17, Sunday 18 and Monday, March 19. The new iPad brings interesting new features, such as the new Retina display, the chip A5X GPU quad-core, and a 5 megapixel iSight video to 1080p and support for 4G LTE networks in the United States and Canada.
These are the words of Philip Schiller, senior vice president of International Marketing Company:
"The iPad is a new blockbuster from 3 million in sales - the biggest ever launch of iPad. Buyers are appreciating the new iPad features, like the great screen Retina, and we look forward to offering it in the hands of many more customers around the world by next Friday."
After the record of pre-orders recorded by the product, analysts had predicted 66 million units sold in 2012 and 1 million in first weekend . The results can be compared, compared with sales of the first two generations of iPad: 300,000 for the first iPad first day of sales in U.S. and one million estimated for the iPad 2 in the first weekend. In particular: the first iPad took 80 days to reach a height of 3 million in sales . Sales of the iPhone 4S approach those that scored 4 million in 3 days !
