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The glowing iPad reviews<\/a> are in. The fawning magazine piece<\/a> on Apple and the iPad is out. <\/p>\n It’s all setting up for the iPad to deliver a monster opening weekend, right? Not really.<\/p>\n Despite the massive hype, the iPad will sell between 200,000 and 300,000 units this weekend says Apple analyst Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray.<\/p>\n While that’s a solid number — probably better than all the Google Nexus One phones sold<\/a> to date — it’s not blowing the doors off the place.<\/p>\n But that’s okay. The iPad’s opening weekend sales numbers are not indicative of the long run direction the iPad will head. They’re mostly only good for headlines.<\/p>\n The iPad is going to be a bigger seller during holidays, graduation, and back-to-school time, similar to an iPod or Mac. Also, the opening weekend sales won’t include the iPad 3G, which many people are waiting for. (Ships in “late April.”)<\/p>\n So, while opening sales numbers can provide some nice glitz, they’re not anything to get worked up about.<\/p>\n (That said, if Apple announces it sold 1 million iPads on Monday, we’ll be floored, and we’ll take back everything we just wrote.)<\/p>\n Here’s a table from Gene comparing his estimates for the iPad, and the launches of the different iPhones.<\/p>\n For the June quarter, Gene thinks Apple sells 900,000 units. For the calendar year, he sees 2.7 million units, but he cautions those estimates are conservative.<\/p>\n He says a strong launch is positive for the stock, but he maintains that 2011 will be the big year for the iPad<\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n The glowing iPad reviews are in. The fawning magazine piece on Apple and the iPad is out. It’s all setting up for the iPad to deliver a monster opening weekend, right? Not really. Despite the massive hype, the iPad will sell between 200,000 and 300,000 units this weekend says Apple analyst Gene Munster at Piper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502036","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\/504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"aapl](\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bb4a7457f8b9a6837980300\/aapl-estimates.png\")
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