Apple Inc. is still negotiating lowered-priced content deals from media companies for its iPad ahead of the device’s April 3 launch, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday on its Web site, citing unidentified sources close to the matter. Apple has already sold hundreds of thousands of the devices on pre-order, according to the Journal. The sources also told the newspaper that the iPad may outsell the iPhone within the first three months after launch.
My emphasis.
link: Apple still negotiating iPad media deals: WSJ – MarketWatch
That does not seem to be quite a huge feat. The iPhone sold 1 million within 74 days and approximately 1.4 million in the first quarter.
With “a few hundred thousand” pre-sold it seems rather likely to me that an additional million for three months is not a stretch.
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