Apple randomizing Web order numbers to veil iPad 2 sales?

Apple randomizing Web order numbers to veil iPad 2 sales? Since Apple has still not announced how manyiPad 2s it's sold from the device proceeded sale last Friday, analysts and onlookers alike have aimed to scrap together numbers from line counts, anecdotal stock reports, and order numbers.

That last a section of the strategy will no longer work, however. Citing sources conversant with Apple's ordering system, Apple Insider reports that Apple has tweaked its Web ordering tools to randomize order numbers so as users can't figure out how many units the issuer has moved between two different points based upon.

During the pioneer iPad launch, forum users on Investor Village's AAPL Sanity Board shared Web order numbers against each other and hang them proper spreadsheet, eventually discovering that they were in the specific order. Putting them in line with actually time codes, the nexus 4 case bumper group could determine that Apple was selling around 25,000 hourly, nexus 4 wallet case well ahead of company's official announcement just about every day . 5 later.

Along while using randomization claim, Apple Insider says Apple's early opening at its retail shops yesterday to cope with long lines was really using stock delivered yesterday. That move, the blog's source says, was to keep mistakes from being made in the rush so as to get freshly-deliverediPad 2 units to buyers.

So far analysts have estimated that on its first day's iPad 2 sales, Apple sold to frenzied buyers any where from 500,000 for the devices, totally to a single million, compared to the 300,000 it all about the very first day of sales for the first-generation iPad. Past year the provider revealed its first day sales just a couple of days when the device happened sale.