Sources: iPad could outsell iPhone in first 3 months; Apple still working on TV show deals

“Since the iPad became available for pre-order last Friday, Apple has sold hundreds of thousands of the device, say people familiar with the matter,” Yukari Iwatani Kane and Sam Schechner report for The Wall Street Journal. “One of these people said Apple could sell more iPads in its first three months than it sold iPhones in the three months after the smart phone’s debut.”

“The company is still negotiating with media companies for a price cut on TV shows that people can download onto the device, said people familiar with the matter,” Kane and Schechner report.

Kane and Schechner report that “nailing down the content has proven difficult as some potential collaborators weigh the advantages of working with Apple against the potential threats to their current sources of revenue, these people add… The last-minute discussions show the complexities that Apple and Chief Executive Steve Jobs are facing in creating a networked multimedia device, which has pushed the company to pare back some of its initial intentions for the iPad’s release.”

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Source: MacDailyNews