iPad falls short

Some of the sting might have been taken out of disappointing retail sales by pre-orders. According to some press reports there were more than a million of these.

However today the Wall Street Journal published a statement from Apple which said that more than 300,000 Ipads were sold on day one. This would be considered great, but if you take into account the fact the figure included all the pre-sales and the hype that said a million would be flogged on Day One that number is dismal.

analyst Gene Munster had predicted Apple would sell 600,000 to 700,000 units