{"id":499481,"date":"2010-04-01T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:417420"},"modified":"2010-04-01T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:29:00","slug":"data-points-to-strong-first-weekend-for-apple-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499481","title":{"rendered":"Data points to strong first weekend for Apple iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Apple Inc.\u2019s iPad set to be released on Saturday April 3, survey data points to a strong first weekend of sales.<\/p>\n

RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky, who has said that initial demand will be greater than for the original iPhone, expects Apple will ship 300,000 to 400,000 units of the multi-purpose device in the first weekend and 1.5 million to 2 million iPads in the third quarter (ending in June) of fiscal 2010. He continues to forecast 5 million units in calendar 2010, although post-launch checks will help confirm uptake by mainstream buyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect strong signals the iPad is an initial \u2018hit\u2019 with early buyers, including launch lines, stockouts, positive reviews (leading industry pundits are already singing its praises) and \u2018buzz,\u2019\u201d he said in a note. \u201cSolid initial sell-through may raise sentiment on iPad\u2019s long-term potential and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Abramsky, who rates Apple shares at Outperform with a US$275 price target, noted that the iPad will have a US$1-billion impact on revenue and US20\u00a2 in earnings per share to the third quarter and US$1.6-billion and US33\u00a2 to fiscal 2010.<\/p>\n

Given strong expected demand and global channel fill, he said launch stockouts are likely for the first one to three months. While this may frustrate some buyers, it could be viewed positively as a sign of high demand.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the analyst estimates up to 25% of iPad buyers may delay purchase of other Apple products like Macbooks and iPods, which suggests a loss or delay of 600,00 Macs, iPhones or iPods in fiscal 2010 and 1.9 million in fiscal 2011. <\/p>\n

Jonathan Ratner<\/a> <\/p>\n

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With Apple Inc.\u2019s iPad set to be released on Saturday April 3, survey data points to a strong first weekend of sales. RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky, who has said that initial demand will be greater than for the original iPhone, expects Apple will ship 300,000 to 400,000 units of the multi-purpose device in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}