As reported by Philip Elmer-DeWitt at Fortune's Apple 2.0 column, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene crunched his Black Friday sales numbers and found that Macs and iPads were popular gifts. Munster said Apple sold about 10.1 Macs per hour and 14.8 iPad per hour. This is a 23% increase in Mac sales and a 68% increase in iPad sales year over year.
Munster also counted the foot traffic and found that retail stores in this survey averaged about 544 people per hour. The Piper Jaffray analyst and his team collected these numbers by standing in a retail store and counting people and products as they left.
Another report suggests the iPhone 4S sold equally well overseas. Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore polled lo
