Initial doubts regarding the success of Cupertino's 7,85-inch tablet are dissolved in the crushing data that is coming our way. After selling an approximate number of 6 to 8 million units globally, Apple has ordered 2 million more units of iPad mini without having finished the year. With this, it covers the expectations set and even exceeds them.
When the small tablet of those of the apple came out on October 23, the sales forecasts until the end of 2012 reached 10 million units. Then, due to problems in the production chain and the pace at which they were reaching consumers, the figure had to be lowered to between 6 and 8 million and that goal has already been met before the end of the year.
The data is surprising for the first moment of coldness and criticism that its launch brought to the public. The new model did not really provide anything original in terms of specifications and its Retina screen did not disappoint and more if we compare it with its price higher than that of the same range on Android as Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD. Phil Schiller even had to go out and explain it.
Time has shown that buyers have gradually become convinced of the benefits of the product and have loaded it in their baskets. The forecasts are very positive, hence the gesture of Apple, and indicate that in 2013 the dizzying figure of 50 million iPad mini, which would be half of the iPads that the Cupertino would sell throughout the year. This forecast places the small tablet as a vital element in its future sales and we already told you recently that it was having more success in stores than the fourth generation of the large format.