If Apple shifted 2M units in 3 weeks Samsung and Motorola must be going fucking bananas. They would suck some serious dick to get to shift that many units of their tablets.
Probably not. They are using JIT. They don't even go to a warehouse, they go directly into the channel.
It is obvious that Apple doesn't use JIT for product launches as no manufacturer goes from zero units to making millions (iPhone 3/3g/3gs/4, iPad1/2) of units in a month's time. After launch JIT should work fine.
Finally received mine two days ago. Amazing device. Loving it more every day. I loaded all my technical .PDF manuals into iBooks. Makes such a great reader on quiet nights! The only one minnow drawback is that I got spoiled by my iPhone4's Retina display. I went in knowing that. I look forward to the day that comes!
I wonder why they haven't released any unit sales numbers. They have no competition to combat in the media right now and it's not like they can't sell them all as is, but it would be nice to have an official idea of the unit sales.
My guess is that they were supply constrained until about now, and they want to get the spigots full open before they mention any numbers-- you know, like the first two weeks or whatever might appear underwhelming given shortages, but with another month of full on sales they'll be able to announce huge numbers.
Most likely manufacturing was ramping up all of February and maybe even before that. I would not be surprised to find out that they had at least 2 million on hand for launch maybe even more. Apple could have easily gone through 4 million iPads in March.
Of course that figure is a little high and maybe hard for some to swallow but I don't see it as unreasonable. One has to only look at the number of idiots that stood in line buying iPads to realize that Apple must have had thousands available in it's stores (per store) upon launch. They probably had 200,000 into customer hands on launch day.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't Apple have been building inventory for at least a few weeks prior to the launch?
So their sales figures would be the 2.4MM they made in March, plus whatever they had built previously. This would make 5 Million seem a bit more reasonable.
Five million in the first month would be outstanding and frankly a big surprise. Then again my estimate of four million in a month would be hard for some to swallow. I do think many people will be shocked when the final sales figures are announced. IPad 2 could easily end up being the most successful product launch ever when it comes to electronics.
first, how many could they make? second... what competition?
It appears that there's a new kid on the block: Cisco! They've got something called the Cius that's an Android 7" product. Info here. I feel somewhat sorry for a great outfit like Cisco to feel like they need to enter the tablet business with the rest of the wannabes. But like IBM in the past, businesses will buy Cisco.
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Probably not. They are using JIT. They don't even go to a warehouse, they go directly into the channel.
It is obvious that Apple doesn't use JIT for product launches as no manufacturer goes from zero units to making millions (iPhone 3/3g/3gs/4, iPad1/2) of units in a month's time. After launch JIT should work fine.
I wonder why they haven't released any unit sales numbers. They have no competition to combat in the media right now and it's not like they can't sell them all as is, but it would be nice to have an official idea of the unit sales.
My guess is that they were supply constrained until about now, and they want to get the spigots full open before they mention any numbers-- you know, like the first two weeks or whatever might appear underwhelming given shortages, but with another month of full on sales they'll be able to announce huge numbers.
Of course that figure is a little high and maybe hard for some to swallow but I don't see it as unreasonable. One has to only look at the number of idiots that stood in line buying iPads to realize that Apple must have had thousands available in it's stores (per store) upon launch. They probably had 200,000 into customer hands on launch day.
Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't Apple have been building inventory for at least a few weeks prior to the launch?
So their sales figures would be the 2.4MM they made in March, plus whatever they had built previously. This would make 5 Million seem a bit more reasonable.
Five million in the first month would be outstanding and frankly a big surprise. Then again my estimate of four million in a month would be hard for some to swallow. I do think many people will be shocked when the final sales figures are announced. IPad 2 could easily end up being the most successful product launch ever when it comes to electronics.
first, how many could they make? second... what competition?
It appears that there's a new kid on the block: Cisco! They've got something called the Cius that's an Android 7" product. Info here. I feel somewhat sorry for a great outfit like Cisco to feel like they need to enter the tablet business with the rest of the wannabes. But like IBM in the past, businesses will buy Cisco.