Apple would have sold 20 million iPads in the second quarter of 2012

According to a study carried out by the analyst Charlie wolf, belonging to the market analysis company Needham & Company, Apple tablet sales would have reached 20 million in the 2012 second quarter, increasing by 7.5 million what had been predicted at first.

If this volume of sales is confirmed during the months of May, June and July, the iPad would be beating its quarterly sales record, doubling the quantity sold during the same period last year. At first quarter some posters 2012 the iPad had managed to get into the 11.8 million units sold, far from the figures forecast now by Charlie Wolf for this second quarter of the year. During the past month of April, Needham & Company He already dared to forecast the sales data that iPad was going to get in this second quarter of 2012, thus remaining at a figure of 13.5 million units, far from the 20 million that have been forecast now.

According to this analyst, "it is only a matter of time before iPad sales exceed iPhone sales." The explanation is based on the fact that the iPad is entering the market of business sector much faster than the iPhone did in its day. It also goes further, ensuring that, with the launch of the iPad in China the next 20 July, The sales of this device will increase even more, something in which Apple has taken special care by incorporating the Chinese language into its iOS platform and some services aimed especially at its population.

Apple will official the figure of iPa units soldd and the rest of your devices next 24 July through a conference of which only the audio will be available via streaming. It will be then when we know if the figures shuffled in this market analysis are true or on the contrary, and despite the resounding success of sales of the iPad, it has not managed to reach such high levels.