 300 @,@ 000 iPads were sold on their first day of availability . By May 3 , 2010 , Apple had sold a million iPads ; this was just half the time it took Apple to sell the same number of original iPhones . After passing the one million mark , they continued selling rapidly , reaching 3 million sales after 80 days . During the financial conference call on October 18 , 2010 , Steve Jobs announced that Apple had sold more iPads than Macs for the fiscal quarter . In total , Apple sold more than 15 million first @-@ generation iPads prior to the launch of the iPad 2 – more than all other tablet PCs combined since the iPad 's release , and reaching 75 % of tablet PC sales at the end of 2010 . 
