Apple says it sold more than 300,000 iPads on Saturday. Of course, that includes pre-orders that were placed over the last month and delivered on Saturday. Apple also announced that iPad users downloaded over one million apps from Apple’s App Store and over 250,000 ebooks from its iBookstore during the first day. The 3G enabled version of the iPad won’t even hit the streets for another week.
In 2007, Apple reported selling 270,000 iPhones during the first two days of availability.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster originally predicted Apple would sell between 200,000 and 300,000 iPads on the first day, but upped his estimate to 600,00 to 700,000 over the weekend. Should have left well enough alone.
iSupply expects worldwide iPad sales are expected to amount to 7.1 million units in 2010. Sales will double to 14.4 million in 2011 and nearly triple to 20.1 million in 2012.
Meanwhile, Apple is projected to sell 36 million iPhones worldwide in 2010. Piper Jaffray says that total is likely conservative for international sales, and doesn’t include the possibility of expansion to other carriers in the U.S.
The original iPhone reached 1 million units sold on day 74. The iPhone first went on sale, June 29, 2007; Droid, November 5, 2009; and, Nexus One, January 5, 2010.
By 2011, on AT&T alone, Gene Munster, senior research analyst with Piper Jaffray, has forecast 21.3 million iPhone sales in the U.S. He expects the platform to continue its rapid growth, with at least 48.5 million total unit sales next year.
ABI guesses just under 6 billion mobile application will be downloaded in 2010, up from an estimated 2.4 billion in 2009.
The mobile sector is now a $850 billion global market, comprising 57% of the global telecom market. It is also the fastest growing segment and will comprise 62% of the total telecom market in 2010, according to IDC.
IDC also reports netbooks had a breakthrough year in 2009, with over 30 million units shipped – up from the 10 million netbooks shipped in 2008. For 2010, IDC forecasts that nearly 40 million netbooks will ship. Acer believes netbooks sales will hit 50 million in 2010 and they’ll capture 40-50% of the market.
ASUS, which pioneered netbooks, has just released the Eee PC 1018P.
The aluminum-clad Eee PC 1018P is ASUS’ thinnest netbook to date, and is equipped with Windows 7 Starter, a choice of Intel’s 1.6 GHz N455 or 1.83 GHz N475 Atom Processors, 1 GB of RAM, a 250 GB Hard Disk Drive, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, and a high-definition 10.1-inch screen. It’s the second ASUS netbook to integrate a fingerprint-enabled sensor from AuthenTec.
The 13″ ASUS U30Jc (right) goes on sale today. It packs a 2.26GHz Intel Core i3-350M CPU, an NVIDIA Optimus GeForce GT310M graphics chip with auto-switching and a DVD. It also features 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 320GB hard disk, HDMI-out, WiFi, and the usual webcam and mic. The 5,600mAh battery is rated to last 9.5 hours and carries a $899 sticker at Amazon.
Smartphones accounted for 48% of AdMob’s worldwide traffic, up from 35% in February 2009, fueled by heavy application usage on iPhone and Android devices. Symbian is still the predominant operating system in terms of smartphone sales worldwide, but for application usage it’s an Apple/Android party.
The 400 million mobile broadband subscriptions are now generating more data traffic than the voice traffic from the total 4.6 billion mobile subscriptions around the world, said Hans Vestberg, Ericsson’s president and CEO, at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas last week.
Research2guidance, a market researcher, says the worldwide smartphone application market will grow from $1.94 billion in 2009 to $15.65 billion by 2013. It’s driven by smartphone growth. They estimate smartphone users will increase globally from about 100 million last year to 970 million by the end of 2013.
