Apple on Thursday announced that the company has sold 4.5 million iPads directly to the educational institutions of the United States to reach 800 million units of the global total.

The company has announced the second quarter of 2012 to U.S. educational institutions to sell about 100 million units iPad. As the price down to $ 399, the company later announced that the third quarter of 2012 in the K-12 (kindergarten through high school) market iPad 2 sales doubled year on year. Apple's sales for each quarter thereafter seems to have been on the rise, the iPad mini $ 329 price tag, as well as the iPad 2 continue to cut prices, are likely to be formed for such growth promoting. As with previous iPad, iPad mini also offer discounts for the education market.

In the January 2012 conference, Apple's worldwide vice president of marketing Phil Schiller (Phil Schiller) provides the latest data of the education market. He said that the iPad was being used by the U.S. education market reached 1.5 million units, which means Apple over the past year has been to the U.S. education market sold 3 million iPads.

Apple CEO Tim Cook (Tim Cook) has repeatedly reiterated plans to continue to actively expand the education market. (Book Yu)