The inhuman queues of a year ago were not created at the launch of the iPad 2, but according to the first data it would seem that the new iPad presented last March 7 in San Francisco and put on the market over the weekend in the USA, Japan, and some European countries, has already sold more.
There was no sold out, but according to estimates over a million copies of the new tablet have already been purchased on Friday evening, while in April 2010 there were "only" 300. However, with fewer scenes of crowds (except in technological Japan, where fans went crazy waiting in front of the Apple Stores), for the simple reason that this time the new iPad was not sold exclusively in the official stores of the bitten apple but at various other distributors. In its wi-fi version, Cupertino's latest jewel made its debut over the weekend at a price of 499 dollars in America, 489 euros in Europe and 42.800 yen in Japan. In Italy, however, there is already great anticipation for next Friday (March 23), when the new iPad will also arrive in our country.
It may not have been sold out, therefore, but definitely boom. So that according to the research agency Gartner, the tablet market, mainly driven by Apple, will reach the PC market in 2015, which is estimated to sell 368 million units this year.
Meanwhile, Cupertino is rejoicing: the new iPad starts with a bang, precisely in the period of greatest financial success of the company, which last week briefly exceeded the threshold of 600 dollars per share on Wall Street, now settling on a total financial value of 580 billions of dollars (exactly double that of Microsoft) making it the most valuable company on the stock market in the world. Not only: Apple's liquidity also reached a record $2011 billion in 97,6, which led the top management of the company to unexpectedly convene a teleconference today at 14 Italian time to explain future strategies. There could be a historic announcement from CEO Tim Cook: the distribution of the first dividend in Apple's history.
