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iPhone 4 Launch Generating Ten Times the Interest of iPhone 3GS Launch

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Just one day after beginning to accept pre-orders, the iPhone 4 seems to be a huge success. While Apple and AT&T server problems and a quick sellout of the iPhone 4 have suggested a huge response to the new device, we weren't entirely sure if these problems were due to internal glitches and short supply rather than an actual increase of popularity.

But, as noted by Macerkopf.de, Germany's Deutsche Telekom twitter account confirms that there was been a 10-fold increase in traffic on their website for the iPhone 4 launch as compared to last year's iPhone 3GS launch. Also, in contrast, the AT&T's allotment of iPhone 3GS pre-orders sold out in about 5 days compared to less than 1 day this time.

All of the evidence of strong demand is grabbing the attention of Wall Street analysts as well, with Fortune reporting that Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has raised his estimate for iPhone sales for the current quarter from 8.5 million to 9.5 million. Munster's increased estimate comes despite the fact that the iPhone 4 will only actually be available for the final six days of the quarter and with new pre-orders already being pushed into next quarter.

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That's nothing compared to the number of people that will be "pre-ording" from Verizon when this stupid exclusivity agreement ends.
 
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Rayday said:
That's nothing compared to the number of people that will be "pre-ording" from Verizon when this stupid exclusivity agreement ends.
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Well now I'm locked into AT&T for another two years. Oh well!
 
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The iOs 4 and the 4th generation iPhone hardware has been enough to convince me to finally jump ship from my G1/Tmobile, it really is the best thing out there IMHO. I was originally planning to upgrade to another Android handset, and then just buy an iPod touch to satisfy my desire for an iPhone, but we all know no one really wants to carry around more than one device. These numbers are really astounding.

I wonder if they will release stats on how many people chose the option to open up a new account versus those that just upgraded.
 
Not sure I'd call the 3GS a minor upgrade. It's twice as fast as the 3G. Granted this one is a much bigger upgrade and an increase in interest was to be expected but it's also true that since last year many more excellent alternatives have become available so to garner such interest in spite of such competition is impressive.
 
Original iPhone 3G Users Upgrading

All the iPhone 3G users who were pissed that AT&T wouldn't give them upgrade pricing last year and weren't willing to pay closer to full freight are upgrading now. I think that is causing a lot of the movement.
 
The amount of units sold on launch seems to grow exponentially with each launch (I don't remember what the numbers were for the 3gs but I know it wasn't as anticipated, i digress); I wonder if apple orders more units with each launch. I understand that they would maybe only order a limited supply in case the launch is a complete failure, but all the hype leading up to the device should've clued them into the notion that they might think about ordering 2 maybe even 3 or 4x the number of devices they had at launch of the 3g.
 
Guys you know that the A4 chip in the Iphone 4 is the same as in the Ipad. And the Ipad is blazingly fast! This is as good as it gets for now...till next year when the Iphone 5 comes out..

Also don't forget the Retina screen...and the 720p HD video recording and the facetime...
 
wow

the 3GS wasn't that different from the previous versions, but iphone 4 is different, so I'm not surprised by the demand. just wish my contract was ending this year.
 
Reuters: Apple take 600,000 orders for iphone 4 in one day, largest ever launch.
 
dgonzalez201 said:
All the iPhone 3G users who were pissed that AT&T wouldn't give them upgrade pricing last year and weren't willing to pay closer to full freight are upgrading now. I think that is causing a lot of the movement.
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I am in that exact boat. All of us 3G users waited so LONG that we had to be the FIRST to get the iPhone4.
 
This is going to be incredibly hard to get in Canada with it being factory unlocked. Servers don't let me down.
 
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