The CNN Money article suggests orders per hour dropped dramatically but the reality is that most companies would love to have 1000 devices sold per hour.
After the initial bust of excitement on Friday that saw iPad pre-orders coming in at the rate of 25,000 per hour, there was a dramatic fall-off over the weekend.
A drop over the weekend is hardly surprising news considering the initial volume and excitement. Most important is that the analysis predicts Apple will have sold a million units by the middle of April.
“My best guess, although very tentative given the early stage and few data we have so far, would be that they hit the 1 million unit milestone by the second week after it ships,” he told Fortune. “But this is a very speculative guesstimate based on just a weekend of pre-orders.”
Original work: Deagol’s AAPL Model (See more exciting graphs!)