iPad, has jumped ship to yet another retailer in the United States... and it's a big one. iPad is now available at Target, a big one store of America. Target"starting today"is the largest chain of brick-and-mortar stores to sell Apple's iPad, and it joins Best Buy as one of only two non-Apple retailers that actually sell the device, period. There is nothing too important about announcement, however, save for the fact that Apple is ever so slowly diversifying the places you can pick up its products. Same six models of iPad at Target are available for the same six price points that you'd otherwise find at an Apple store itself. There is also an interesting fact about what you can get on Target. For starters, no iPads are on sale via the company's retail web site"all iPad purchases will be made and picked up in-store only. Yet, a number of iPad accessories are sold via Target.com instead of actual Target retail locations. Target is hoping that it will cash its holidays by using iPad as a hook device. It has given the high demand for the device"sales estimates hover around 3.27 million units for the iPad's first three months of existence"it's certainly possible that "iPad fever" could work in Target's advantage. "We hope to sell a lot more later this week, once people are more aware that we carry it," said Chetna Parikh, a Target electronics team member, in an interview with the Associated Press. Analysts estimate that total iPad sales could jump to 21 million units in 2011.

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