Apple reported on Tuesday that the company sold 7.33 million iPads in the quarter ending December 25, 2010. Separately, Barclays analyst Doug Anmuth has somehow conjured an estimate that Amazon sold 7.1 million Kindle devices in 2010 and will sell 12.3 million devices in 2011, “though our numbers may still be conservative.” Or they could be wrong. Going by the services that monitor the actual manufacturing and shipment of ereader components and devices (including one that we cited yesterday), those numbers are high and do not square with the manufacturer data. Anmuth estimates that Kindle revenues from devices and electronic content […]
