Claim Chowder: How Many iPads Sold in 2010
[Via Daring Fireball]
Back on April 2, on Fox News’s Strategy Room, host Clayton Morris asked how many iPads Apple would sell in 2010. This was one day before the Wi-Fi version went on sale. The answers from his guests:
- Jason Snell: 3 million
- Andy Ihnatko: 3 million
- Yours truly: 8 million
- Mike Rose: 4.5-5 million
- Ross Rubin: 5 million
- Natali Del Conte: 5 million
- Clayton Morris: 9 million
The actual answer: 14.8 million.
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John Gruber came closest but he was only 54% of the actual number. Some were only 20%.
It is like The Price is Right where the washer is $1500 and saying the answer was $300. The audience would be screaming “Higher, higher.”
I wonder if anyone will get closer this next year? Perhaps include how many iPhones will Verizon sell?
A Man With A Ph.D. 