Apple Confirms Record-Breaking Four Million First Day Pre-Orders for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus

[Gasu E.]

wow, so that's 4 million tons of bezel!

A lot of people are scoffing at this, but it actually does take a ton of bezel to make one iPhone screen. First, the bezel silicate has to be mined, in one of the bezel mining sites in Canada, China or Chile. Then it gets transported to a bezel refining site. Bezel refining is a multi-step process, requiring removal of mineral impurities, followed by separation into the actual bezel and other chemical components. The pure bezel then gets formed into bezel bars for transport, which end up at a manufacturing facility for making the "wafers" from which the actual iPhone screen bezels get cut. The point it, the raw bezel is very impure, and needs to be highly refined to get usable screen material. It actually does take about one ton of raw bezel material to make a single iPhone screen.

 

[sshambles]

I haven't even ordered mine yet!

Vodafone didn't allow 6+ preorders as far as I could grasp. Should be a lot more. 4 million is awesome.

 

[Moonjumper]

I feel sorry for those who pre-ordered with Phone4U in the UK. The company has gone into administration, so those customers will lose their place in the queue. Hopefully there will still be enough day 1 stock for them to not miss out elsewhere.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

Wow! A very interesting Mac-rumor!

 

[AdonisSMU]

that means after eight months there is no need for additional sales anymore!!!

math!

 

[MentalFloss]

Bear in mind those who bought two just to make their mind up.

There are people like that? People who order two phones, being 100% sure that they will return one? Well, that is the very definition of anti-social.

A returned phone can't be resold at full price, so that has to be priced into the price of the non-returned phones, implying that all customers pay for the people who can't just wait until both phones are in the store, sitting next to each other for everyone to try and compare.

 

[cmChimera]

Yeah, but Android ships a billion units a month.

Android is an operating system. It doesn't ship anything.

 

[4jasontv]

The iPhone 6s (can't believe I'm talking about it already) will probably feature sapphire glass and have OIS on the smaller model.

That's a good improvement.

Though not in the direction many would like.

 

[AdonisSMU]

No. 4 million phones were ordered. Millions more tried to order...

The point is that if their site worked properly they could've had millions more orders.

 

[HiVolt]

No surprise its doubled, Apple released TWO phone sizes, and much larger ones.

 

[CB1234]

Apple would be remiss not to thank Samsung for all the work they put in advertising for apple.

From letting customers know before the phone was announced that it was going to be released, to explaining every new feature of the phone in detail for those who didnt know.

Apple needs to hire Samsung for marketing.

LOL.... this made me laugh... good one !!!

 

[webbuzz]

The point is that if their site worked properly they could've had millions more orders.

That wasn't his point.

 

[DeathBecomesMe]

Converts

I bet a lot of these are Android users, like me, just waiting for a bigger screen to jump ship.

 

[DakotaGuy]

Well I guess this disproves the posters that claimed no one wanted larger screened iPhones.

 

[legacyb4]

Kinda puts the "Welcome to 2012, iPhone 6" comparison graphic to the Nexus 4 into perspective; according to Wikipedia, the Nexus 4 had a 1 year lifespan and sold a whopping 375,000 in the first two months of being on sale...

 

[Trapezoid]

I bet a lot of these are Android users, like me, just waiting for a bigger screen to jump ship.

I think so too...the bigger screen was really the only thing that the iPhone was missing all these years.

Couple that with apple pay, which will (not may) change how people pay for things and I can see apple getting a lot of business from android users.

 

[kushari]

I'm confused about people saying the site was down - i'm in the UK, went on the site around 8.30am, loaded up fine, ordered and went through the checkout all ok

That's because the UK site is not the same as the US, Canadian, etc, sites.

 

[SMIDG3T]

Another quote from Tim Cook from The Verge:

"While a significant amount will be delivered to customers beginning on Friday and throughout September, many iPhone pre-orders are scheduled to be delivered in October."

 

[wovel]

Only 4 million in 24 hours... Hmmmm

You mean to tell me the site was down because Apple couldn't handle 4 million customers in a day? Eeek! That's not good.

I don't think it is good either. However, most of those probably tried to order in the first 5 minutes.

 

[2457282]

Great numbers and this weekend could add another 6 million if supplies don't run out. And yet, I am not among them. I will wait to go during the week and look at it to decide if I want to buy or stick with the 5s. I am hoping to hear about the iPad which is the device i really need to update. But who knows, once the phone is in my hand in store I could fall in love (I am still not a fan of phablets).

 

[M87]

Bear in mind those who bought two just to make their mind up.

Yeah, because that's totally normal.

 

[JohnnyGo]

Kinda puts the "Welcome to 2012, iPhone 6" comparison graphic to the Nexus 4 into perspective; according to Wikipedia, the Nexus 4 had a 1 year lifespan and sold a whopping 375,000 in the first two months of being on sale...

Same-sung is full of BS

IMO demand is off the charts. Just go look and see the pages at apple.com behind the iPhone 6 features. The screen tech seems way better than before. The A8 seems quite impressive as well. There is just so many compelling reasons to upgrade (larger screen, better battery life,  pay, camera improvements, better screen tech, wifi ac, wifi calling, VoLTE, etc).

 

[stewy]

But I thought people didn't want big phones?

 

[jmcrutch]

To the arguments that there are a bunch of people who bought BOTH phones and plan to return one ... well there's an entire OFFSET category of buyers that includes ME

The category is people who have always bought the phone on pre-release day, but this time are waiting until they can hold the phones in their hands before deciding which they are purchasing

My point? The number of phones sold is going to increase by people like me.

 

[lucansmiles]

Wow... I hope we guys from all the other countries where ordering starts on Sept 26 don't have to wait too long for our iPhones being delivered...I'm hoping for 2 weeks max! I've been using Macs for almost 7 years now, this is my first iPhone ever and I can't wait! Edit: I'm getting an iPhone 6, not a 6+ so I'm staying positive!