Posted on Sunday, March 13 2011 @ 15:00 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky
believes up to one fifth of original iPad buyers may upgrade to the iPad 12 over the next year:
Mike Abramsky with RBC Capital Markets sees up to a fifth of original iPad buyers switching to the iPad 2 over the next 12 months. But most who buy an iPad 2 in 2011 will be new to the platform, and Abramsky expects Apple will sell 28 million of its touchscreen tablet in this calendar year.
He expects those sales to get off to a strong start this weekend, as Apple may sell more than 500,000 of the iPad 2 after it goes on sale today at 5 p.m. That would nearly double the 300,000 first-gen iPads sold on launch day last April.
