Year: 2010

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster tells clients that his initial estimates of 900,000 iPads sold in the June quarter and 2.7 million in calendar year 2010 “may prove to be conservative” and that Apple is selling every iPad it can build.

As reported by All Things D (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Munster-Apple-is-Selling-allthingsd-4182584461.html?x=0&.v=1), Munster thinks Apple will sell between 200,000 and 300,000 iPads this weekend — comparable to the 270,000 first gen iPhones it sold at launch. And he thinks the chances are good that the company will sell out of the tablet device.

Apple has announced (http://www.apple.com/ipad/mobileme/) iPad support for MobileMe, the company’s US$99-per-year suite of Internet tools.

MobileMe delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the MobileMe service in the “cloud” to native applications on the iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. MobileMe also provides a suite of ad-free web applications that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser. MobileMe apps include Mail, Contacts and Calendar, as well as Gallery for viewing and sharing photos and iDisk for storing and exchanging documents online.

Uh oh. Apple has asked for reconsideration of its trademark application for the word “iPhone” by the Swiss Federal Administrative Court. They were denied, with the court maintaining that the term is a non-distinctive word for which Apple could not be granted a trademark.

The Court rejected the application for the class 9 goods on the grounds that “iPhone” will be immediately understood by consumers as describing a telephone with Internet or information technology-related functions, and accordingly represents a non-distinctive, descriptive indication.