Apple iPads dominated Black Friday sales in the year of the tablet, Information Weekly reported.
One firm believes Apple will sell more than the 25 million iPads during the holiday quarter it originally predicted, according to Information Weekly. The only obstacle is supply, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.
"Given the positive read on iPad, our December iPad expectations of 24.5 million (7 percent year-over-year growth) appears to be slightly conservative," Munster wrote on Monday.
Munster also found that 1 percent of all #Black Friday tweets mentioned the iPhone and .3 percent mentioned the iPhone, according to NBC News.
At one store Munster visited in the Mall of America, business was up 9 percent compared to that of last year, according to Information Weekly.
Apple's tablets are thriving despite being among the most expensive on the market; only the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 rivals it in price ($899). Besides being recognized as one of the best tablets around (if not the best; tech gear ranks the iPad Air #1 and the iPad Mini 2 #2), Apple's devices give users the option to purchase more memory. The 128 GB storing options for the Air and the Mini, retailing at $799 and $699, were the two highest sellers at Apple Stores. One reason why customers covet the extra space is to watch and store movies.
How much storage users sought and how much they were willing to pay also depended on which store they visited. The most popular options at Target stores were lower priced, lower storage versions like the 16-GB iPad Air, 16-GB iPad Mini, and the 32-GB iPad Air, which contributed at an absurd 18.1 percent of all in-store Target sales on Friday, according to Information Weekly.
Walmart said it had sold 1.4 million tablets between 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm on Thanksgiving night, with the 16 GB iPad Mini as its top selling item overall, Information Weekly reported..
Apple's iPhone 5s followed the success of its tablets, according to Information Weekly.
