The video of the smashing of the 500-dollar device outside a Best Buy store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday has attracted more than 280,000 views on the video-sharing site.
The Los Angeles Times caught up with Justin Kockott, the 19-year-old high school student who made the video titled "Brand new iPad getting smashed by a baseball bat."
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"I wanted to be the first one to do it before other people did it," Kockott told the newspaper. "It was just something to do."
"I knew some people would hate it, but I didn't think that many people would hate it," he said. "A lot of people are leaving really bad comments (in the YouTube comments section)."
Kockott told the Times he did not have anything against Apple and had actually bought two other iPads.
"I do not at all hate Apple. I love Apple, actually," he said.
Apple said Monday that it some more than 300,000 iPads on the first day of availability on Saturday.
