{"id":9239,"date":"2011-03-11T12:45:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T12:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ipad_2_demand_could_be_much_greater_than_expected.html"},"modified":"2011-03-11T12:45:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T12:45:01","slug":"ipad-2-demand-could-be-much-greater-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/ipad-2-demand-could-be-much-greater-than-expected.html","title":{"rendered":"iPad 2 Demand Could Be Much Greater Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/ipad-2-shipping-time.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/ipad-2-shipping-time-thumb-384x389-8944.png\" alt=\"ipad-2-shipping-time.png\" width=\"384\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a>The iPad 2 has only been on sale for a few hours online and already shipping estimates have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/mobile-gadgeteer\/update-after-a-few-hours-apple-ipad-2-shipping-drops-to-2-3-weeks\/4509?tag=nl.e539\">gone<\/a> from 3-5 days to <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/us\/browse\/home\/shop_ipad\/family\/ipad\/select?mco=MjE0OTI0MDI\">2-3 weeks<\/a>. Perhaps this isn&#8217;t too surprising as analysts believe 15-20% of users of the original iPad will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/11\/03\/11\/up_to_20_of_original_ipad_buyers_predicted_to_upgrade_to_apples_ipad_2.html\">upgrade<\/a>. This includes me by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Some are calling for 600,000 iPad 2 devices to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-11\/apple-poised-to-sell-600-000-ipad-2s-in-its-debut-outpacing-first-model.html\">sold<\/a> this weekend in over 10,000 stores from AT&amp;T, Verizon, Wal-Mart and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we shouldn&#8217;t be too surprised as we know the price of trade-ins on original iPads has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/original-ipad-trade-ins-indicate-massive-ipad-2-demand\/85027\">dropping<\/a> since the announcement of the new device. Mashable has <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/03\/11\/ipad-2-day\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">more<\/a> on whether you should order online or in a store.<\/p>\n<p>My take is if you can&#8217;t wait, order one online and stand in line this weekend if you find a store with one in stock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 3\/14\/11<\/strong>: The delay is now 3-4 weeks according to Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/us\/browse\/home\/shop_ipad\/family\/ipad\/select?mco=MjE0OTI0MDI\">site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPad 2 has only been on sale for a few hours online and already shipping estimates have gone from 3-5 days to 2-3 weeks. Perhaps this isn&#8217;t too surprising as analysts believe 15-20% of users of the original iPad will upgrade. This includes me by the way. Some are calling for 600,000 iPad 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,171,172,196,118,174,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}