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Apple Sells 1 Million iPhones, 10 Million Apps Downloaded in First Weekend
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They did sell phones all day on Friday. So Friday (1)+ Saturday (1)+ Sunday (1)= 1+1+1=3.
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They did sell phones all day on Friday. So Friday (1)+ Saturday (1)+ Sunday (1)= 1+1+1=3.
has no-one notified you of the extra day we had last week to accommodate eager prospective iphone buyers?
It wasn't even a "worldwide" launch. 21 countries and a lot of them fairly small markets (Ireland, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, New Zealand all have less than <10m people)
Whatever way you want to dice it, 1m units in a weekend for ANY phone is exceptional. Even more so one that has an average price of $200 on contract.
I know, but you can't say that "Friday is one day after Friday", can you?
no, but he adds up beautifully; you can't take that away from him.
Agreed.
Steve is master marketer. He skillfully avoids telling the whole story at every keynote. Despite the half truths, loyalists still think he can do no wrong.
They had to have been slowed down by the inefficient system. Having said that, as a first-day buyer, I'm pleased. There are some very nice apps available and I've been pleased with the ones I've downloaded so far:
New York Times reader (good content, sometimes a bit slow); AOL radio; Trism (great game); a nice chess game called Caissa; and that tapping rhythm game.
I was going to say the same. They could have sold A LOT more this weekend if they hadn't delivered so few phones to Europe. Many people over here were waiting for over a year now for this device (unless those who imported and hacked it)! I guess they underestimated the impact of some smaller countries here.
iPhone is working great now as is MobileMe for me: However, my dot Mac / Mobile Me Family Plan expires in two days. I have been trying to pay online for days and always get an error "Sever Error - please try again later". The credit card I have on record has a changed number so auto renew will fail, I am trying to simply update the number.
I phoned Apple and the best they can do is tell me some one will contact me in 48 hours. I asked to speak to someone who could let me pay there and then over the phone but was told there is no such ability.
By pure coincidence, a friend in France just e-mailed me to tell me he is getting a server error when he tries to update his dot Mac/ MobileMe account!
Has anyone else seen this?
Meanwhile talking of MobileMe ... every web site I have made with iWeb where I used the map widget is currently showing Apple's MobileMe web page not the previously showing interactive Google Map! Oh and all Google ads that were working fail to show up if you some much as change a single thing on the site and upload!
Come on Apple what the heck is going on??
I phoned Apple and the best they can do is tell me some one will contact me in 48 hours. I asked to speak to someone who could let me pay there and then over the phone but was told there is no such ability.
By pure coincidence, a friend in France just e-mailed me to tell me he is getting a server error when he tries to update his dot Mac/ MobileMe account!
Has anyone else seen this?
Meanwhile talking of MobileMe ... every web site I have made with iWeb where I used the map widget is currently showing Apple's MobileMe web page not the previously showing interactive Google Map! Oh and all Google ads that were working fail to show up if you some much as change a single thing on the site and upload!
Come on Apple what the heck is going on??
Not true. Belgium (10.5m) and the Netherlands (16.5m) both have more than 10m people. Just wanted to correct that.
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BAM! BOOM!
And just wait till all those kiddies see just what games daddy can download! Awesome DS...dead
PSP...dead
RIM...dead for consumers
RIM...dead for consumers
BAM! BOOM!
And just wait till all those kiddies see just what games daddy can download! Awesome DS...dead
PSP...dead
RIM...dead for consumers
RIM...dead for consumers
Yeah, well Belgium and the Netherlands avg the same amount of people as NYC....
Unless there's some reason you don't qualify for the $199 pricing, that doesn't make sense. AT&T didn't subsidize the original iPhone so you end up under contract for 4 years with 1 subsidy if you buy a new iPhone in 2009. If you buy it now you end up under contract for 3 years with 1 subsidy.
I want to see Rogers numbers
I would really like to know how many iPhones Rogers have been able to sell on friday.
In fact, I'd like to know how many iPhones were sold in each countries, along with available quantity of iPhones, to compare the success with the plans pricing.
I would really like to know how many iPhones Rogers have been able to sell on friday.
In fact, I'd like to know how many iPhones were sold in each countries, along with available quantity of iPhones, to compare the success with the plans pricing.
