After months of marketing hype that had fans grabbing their wallets this weekend, Apple announced Monday that it sold more than 300,000 of its new tablet computers on Saturday - a one-day total that topped the 2007 debut sales tallies for the original iPhone. Analysts predicted shoppers would snap up more than 4 million units by the end of the year. The Cupertino, Calif.,-based company also said that, as of 12:01 a.m. Sunday, consumers users had downloaded more than 1 million applications - the small programs users can add to their devices - and nearly 250,000 ebooks from the company's iBookstore online marketplace.

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