Apple iPad sales of 17 million quarterly increase of 84%

In the last quarter, Apple sold a total of 17 million iPads, an increase of 84% year-on-year. The previous iPad sales record was created in the December quarter last year, when sales reached 15.4 million units.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement: “We are very excited about the sales record of the 17 million iPads in the June season.”

iPad sales are Apple’s second largest source of revenue, second only to iPhone, totaling US$9.2 billion. In Apple's total sales of $35 billion, it accounts for more than 26% of the total.

This is the first full quarter since the iPad 3 was sold. Analysts’ budgets for the iPad’s sales volume ranged from 16 million units estimated by Piper Jaffray of the US investment bank to 20 million units estimated by Needham & Company. As early as the beginning of this month, an average of 61 analysts in the Fortune magazine compiled a consensus that the iPad’s current sales volume will be around 18.75 million units.

After the debut of Apple's latest iPad model, it quickly became active. In mid-March, after the iPad 3 was released in 10 countries, it expanded to 25 countries in just one week. Obviously, the sales volume of iPad 3 released in mainland China last week is not in the range of this June quarter.