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<span style="font-weight: bold">iPad sales cross million mark twice as fast as original iPhone</span>
Source: Yahoo
Whether you love it or hate it, the iPad is a hit, with Apple claiming Monday that it has already sold a million of the "magical" tablets — and at a pace more than double that of the first iPhone.
Apple sold the millionth iPad on Friday — the day that the 3G-embedded version of the iPad went on sale — according to a statement from Cupertino early Monday. Steve Jobs boasted that "demand continues to exceed supply and we're working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers."
Indeed, there were reports of iPad sellouts across the country over the weekend. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster (by way of Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog) said that of the 50 Apple stores he and his assistants called on Sunday, all but one of them had run out of the 3G-enabled iPad and most had run dry of the iPad altogether.
Back in 2007, the original iPhone took 73 days to cross the million mark. The iPad managed the same feat in just 28 days, about 2½ times as fast as the first iPhone did.
The latest iPad sales numbers account only for U.S. customers; the iPad won't make its international debut until later this month. Apple says it'll announce official overseas launch dates (already delayed due to "surprisingly strong demand" here in the States) on May 10, the day it begins taking international pre-orders.
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Especially when you consider the iPad is really a "niche" item which was introduced on the back end of the Great Recession.
cause mi want one too but cyan justify it 
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