I spotted the chart above via this post at Daring Fireball. John Gruber had this to say about it:
If you asked me what the most underrated aspect of Apple is today, I’d say it’s the speed at which iPad sales have grown. The iPhone took off fast, but the iPad has taken off way, way faster. I suspect many Apple watchers consider the iPad an iPhone-like success — but it’s far bigger.
The chart is the work of Horace Dediu at his Asymco site, and the chart was posted along with a tweet.
Although I was aware that the iPad’s first year sales numbers were at a record breaking pace, I had no idea how far ahead it is of the sales trajectory for the iPod and iPhone. That’s very impressive.
Apple did their Q4 2011 financial results call this afternoon. Their fiscal fourth quarter is roughly in line with the 3rd calendar quarter of the year, having ended on September 24, 2011.
Here are some of the notable iPad numbers announced on the call:
– 11.12 million iPads sold in the quarter – a 166% increase from the year-ago quarter.
– 92% of Fortune 500 testing or deploying iPads – up from 86% last year.
– iPads now being distributed in 90 countries.
– Another mention of the IDC figures for Q2 of 2011 – showing the iPad with around 3/4 of the tablet market.
I think that iPad sales number puts the year’s total for 2011 at right around 25 million, with the holiday quarter still to come.
During their quarterly earnings call yesterday Apple announced some staggeringly impressive numbers for the iPad. For starters, they sold 9.25 million iPads last quarter – that’s a crazy, huge number in its own right.
Here’s a few more numbers and facts that caught my eye:
– The iPad number for the quarter was up 183% over last year.
– The iPad outsold the iPod (all models combined) and more than doubled the sales of Macs.
– iPads are now on sale in 64 countries, after launching in 36 new ones during the quarter.
– 86 percent of Fortune 500 companies are now deploying or testing the iPad.
Apple are still selling iPads as fast as they can build them, but Tim Cook (Apple’s COO) stated that he is confident that they can ramp up production to meet demand.
More than 9 million iPads sold in a non-holiday quarter seems hugely impressive to me, especially with all the new competitor tablets that have launched this year.
During today’s WWDC 2011 keynote presentation, Apple announced an iPad milestone: that more than 25 million iPads have been sold since its launch 14 months ago. And they took the opportunity to remind us that …
We’ve created a whole new category of device with the iPad.
My math is weak, but 25 million in 14 months sounds like not far off 2 million per month as average sales. Not too shabby – especially considering many of their rivals don’t sound as if they’ve hit 2 million sales after several months on the market, and given the supply constraints that have been around for various periods since the original iPad launch.
Yesterday Apple did their Q2 2011 earnings call. Some of the numbers and quotes that caught my attention during the call included:
– 4.7 million iPads were sold during the quarter. This is below a lot of analysts’ estimates, but still an impressive number given that the quarter ended in March, with stocks of the original iPad being wound down and the iPad 2 only on sale for about two weeks. Tim Cook (Apple’s COO) said demand for the iPad 2 has been ‘staggering’.
– There were 3.76 million Macs sold in the quarter. So the iPad is outselling Macs by a significant distance.
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