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Apple Sells One Million 3G iPhones in One Weekend
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by Jarrett Martineau | July 14, 2008 at 08:18 am
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Last Friday's global launch of the 3G iPhone was plagued with problems but, the demand for Apple's latest products far outweighed the technical glitches and hiccups experienced by many customers.
In just 72 hours, Apple sold more than 1 million iPhones and had more than 10 million iPhone apps downloaded from its App Store on iTunes.
That's a blockbuster sales weekend for Steve Jobs & co. with very few signs of a slowdown. At this rate, iPhone ubiquity is almost a foregone conclusion.
Do you or don't you believe the hype?
Despite a few hiccups and stores running out of inventory, Apple was able to sell one million 3G iPhonesworldwide across 21 countries its first three days on sale. During that same time, owners of both the new and old iPhone were able to download 10 million apps from the newly launched App Store on iTunes, despite a few hiccups with the iPhone 2.0 software update disabling many people’s phones temporarily on Friday.
That brings the total number of iPhones sold since the launch of the first generation phone to more than 7 million. Apple’s goal of reaching 10 million iPhones sold by the end of the year seems well within reach. In contrast, it took the first iPhone 74 days to reach one million sales, but it wasn’t sold in 21 countries. Apple watchers will be looking for clues about what portion of sales are in the U.S., versus in international markets.
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at 08:36 on July 14th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Garmin is supposed to release a touch-screen Nuvi with PDA and GSM capabilities pretty soon so I was thinking I'd wait for that - but perhaps in the end the price of the iPhone will drop. With all the support going in the iPhone direction, it might become the 800 pound Gorilla in the rink and the Garmin unit will be less exciting due to all the support available for the iPhone.
Still, not being able to change the battery is a critical failing for a business product...