Apple continues to prove its dominance over the tablet market. Soon you won't be able to get an iPad for love nor money regardless of whether you're going for the first or second instalment of the device. In attempt to keep iPad 1 sales ticking over in the shadow of iPad number two Apple had been selling clearance and refurbished tablets which have now more or less ran out. Online stocks of 16GB Wi-Fi iPads are all gone and the Apple Online Store no longer offers the Wi-Fi only version of the original iPad.
And there's no signs of Apple's success dwindling any time soon. Analysts predict that Apple will sell a staggering total of 40 million iPads in 2011. The iPad 2 has proved even more popular than first anticipated causing Wall Street to increase its sales figure predictions.
This doesn't mean that you've got no chance of getting your hands on an iPad. You will just have to hit the real stores rather than Apple's online store. Even that may be a bit tricky. Though not as low as online stocks, store stocks are also running dangerously low. The race is on if you want to grab one of the remaining first gen iPads.
You may just have to pay the extra and get #2 If you do, Apple advises that fans pre-order their iPad 2 so that they can be the first to get their hands on when when fresh stock arrives in late April. Obviously Apple will be working hard to make sure that whoever wants to splash their cash will be able to. Describing demand for the device as "amazing" Apple said it was endeavouring to ensure anyone who wanted one could do so "as quickly as possible."
Still no signs of any impressive Android figures. Yet the verbal attacks on the iPad continue. It seems like everyone's in denial. The iPad doesn't particular excite me but 40 million people think otherwise.