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Apple Announces Over Two Million iPhone 5 Pre-Orders in First Day of Sales

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Following today's announcement by AT&T sharing word that the iPhone 5 has broken pre-order sales records at the carrier, Apple has issued a press release noting that it too saw record-breaking pre-orders of over two million units in the first 24 hours of availability. The performance breaks last year's record of one million iPhone 4S units pre-ordered on the first day of availability.
"iPhone 5 pre-orders have shattered the previous record held by iPhone 4S and the customer response to iPhone 5 has been phenomenal," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "iPhone 5 is the best iPhone yet, the most beautiful product we've ever made, and we hope customers love it as much as we do."
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The iPhone 5 will be available beginning this Friday, September 21. The first pre-orders have begun shipping from China, but delivery companies will be coordinating to hold the shipments until Friday. Customers who did not pre-order the device have also begun lining up at a few Apple retail stores ahead of Friday's launch, although most of those seen so far are lining up for promotional purposes.

Article Link: Apple Announces Over Two Million iPhone 5 Pre-Orders in First Day of Sales
 
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0.00025% of those were from us :)

They did say (was it the CFO?) that each iPhone sells as much as all previous iPhone sales cumulated. So this was expected.

EDIT: you could say that iPhone sales have...stretched.

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2X CPU power
2X Graphics power
2X RAM
2X sales in the first 24 hours than last year to 2 million units

Ofcourse, as you know, Apple is doomed to hell and beyond for this innovation-less minor update.
 
I love when people write comments like "worst iPhone ever", "what were they thinking??" and "bye iPhone, hello S3" and then I hear news like this. Makes me smile :)
 
1 million over 24 hours for the 4S and 2 million over 72 hours for the 5. I'm sure it outsold the 4S but these numbers cannot be compared.

edit: never mind it was written wrong on the main article, now its fixed.
 
i'm surprised...

at&T (and maybe other carriers) are not allowing an early upgrade so I would have thought the early uptake would be much slower than past phones.

- so are orders from people with older phones?
- or are people actually paying the non-subsidized fee?
 
And of course the media spin is initial sales will be high but then it will tail off fast. :rolleyes: can't wait until they all have egg on their faces. :D
 
BreuerEditor said:
I love when people write comments like "worst iPhone ever", "what were they thinking??" and "bye iPhone, hello S3" and then I hear news like this. Makes me smile :)
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It's good in one way — more iPhones for us. They'll crave in some day anyway.
 
That is pretty amazing stuff! Is this worldwide? I assume it is.

I fully intend to buy one this friday but I wasn't in time to pre-order.
 
Lol where are the iPhone haters who said apples press release was a lie. Doubling sales in first 24 hours is certainly worthy of being blown away, especially for a 6th generation product. Let us see how those with no business understanding spin their way out if this and apple obviously knew first 24 hour sales would increase 100%.
 
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