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iPhone 4S Sales Top 4 Million as 25 Million Users Move to iOS 5

ShionoyaTamaki said:
Hmm 20m iCloud users now. Each get 5gb free. Wonder how many hard drives they racking up for it in their sparkly new data center.
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If they have 5GB provisioned for those 20m users, according to my medicore math skills, that's almost 100 petabyte right there.

And I'm already using 1.9GB of my account, according to the settings. So even if they under-provision, they need to have at least 50 petabytes around, just for the existing users, to make sure they don't run into trouble.

But I would guess that they have much, much more than that ready, since the number of users will continue to grow pretty fast.
 
What a flop. They would have sold 10 million if it was an iPhone5. ;)

P.S. I love my 4S.
 
dlowings said:
iOS 5 on my original ipad was a BAD move... The thing is slower than all get out now... I'll bet it works great with the faster CPU but it dogs down the older stuff...
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My iPad 1 feels about the same but my iPhone 4 (which shares the same A4 processor) is definitely faster under iOS 5. Gone is the dreaded 'Updating iPod library' after synching.
 
dlowings said:
iOS 5 on my original ipad was a BAD move... The thing is slower than all get out now... I'll bet it works great with the faster CPU but it dogs down the older stuff...


IMO
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Updating my iPad 1 was a bad and good thing. I couldn't restore because my "Other" space was 45GB and I could not restore my apps and music. It seems like that "Other" space was the entire backup. In the apple support discussions, this happens sometimes and the only way to recover is to set it up as a new iPad. The good news is that I did some house cleaning and only moved apps that I actually used, movies/shows I would watch again, saved tons of space, still loaded all my music, and my iPad seems snappier.

Hate to say it, but it was like they way I fix my work PC running windows when it acts crazy.

My iPhone 4 upgrade was smooth.
 
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KnightWRX said:
I'm responsible for 2 of those myself. Great phone even though Siri could have been better, but again, I was expecting this. (If you're going to downrank me, know that I have played with it extensively over the weekend before reaching the conclusion that my opinion about it was correct. It has many issues that make it innefficient and in some cases completely broken).



iOS 5 was plenty fine on my 3GS for the 2 days prior to getting my 4S.
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Hence, why Siri is a beta.
 
I have the new iPhone 4S, and it truly is one phenomenal, industry-shaking device!

Siri really leaves people floored. I have a die-hard Android user for a buddy and he is ready to convert. Here at work, our Executive Director's special assistant is astonished with the iPhone and Siri & voice infrastructure in it, she swears she'll have one by the end of today! My little niece is moaning and groaning all over her Facebook wall, wishing she had Siri on her iPad. My PARENTS are talking to their own pre-ordered 4S phone like little kids, for cryin' out loud!!!

I don't mean for Siri to take away from the 4S virtues such as how silky smooth it operates with it's new dual-core processor, or how stunning the pictures look taken with its 8 megapixel camera, the signature Apple elegance and usability of even the simplest apps such as Reminders, or the awe-inspiring mirroring of the display onto your home televisions.

But combined with Siri, the 4S truly is most spectacular technology that Apple has released to date, without a doubt! This is industry-shaking, folks. And you can bet that it all somehow gets even better from here!

I kick myself for initially feeling underwhelmed by Apple's keynote release of the 4S. Sales of 4 million in 3 days contradicts all the generally-held industry opinions of brushing off the 4S, easily. Apple shows that it will provide the technology when it's ready, and Apple's WILL be the best of it.

Pissed off that Apple didn't release a 4G/LTE phone (which probably would have had horrendous battery life like the other 4G/LTE Androids)? Apple will make your wait worth the while. And you can take that one to the bank!
 
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diamond.g said:
Only 25 million upgraded to iOS 5? In the scheme of things is that a small number (compared to the number of eligeble iOS devices)?
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It will take a few weeks, since most people dont follow tech news, and will only realize they have to upgrade when they plug their iOS device into iTunes (which is rare for most).
 
dlowings said:
iOS 5 on my original ipad was a BAD move... The thing is slower than all get out now... I'll bet it works great with the faster CPU but it dogs down the older stuff...


IMO
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Strange my iPhone 3GS is faster with 5.0. I did a clean install if that matters
 
dlowings said:
iOS 5 on my original ipad was a BAD move... The thing is slower than all get out now... I'll bet it works great with the faster CPU but it dogs down the older stuff...
IMO
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Unfortunately that's also the case with my iPad 1. OS5 is very nice with some fine improvements but the speed is gone, even after reflashing and nothings installed or restored afterwards.
 
As usual the naysayers were proved wrong.

A guy who cleans my office: "I'm disappointed Apple didn't release iPhone 5"

Me: "really, what features are you looking for that aren't in the new phone?"

Guy: "I'm not really sure, I was just expecting a new phone"

Me: "whatever"

looks like most people "get" this new release...
 
Ehhh not really surprising. It was available in more countries on launch day and on a new carrier here in the US. Of course they will sell more.
 
Apple might sell 10 million iPhone 4S by end of this month with this pace...
 
KnightWRX said:
Overbooking. You think they have 5 GB per user handily available ? ;)

They must have quite a bit though. I think we're reaching close to a petabyte in ours and we're a small scale enterprise compared to a user facing one like Apple.


Well, 100,000,000 GB's = 95.37 Petabytes. That is just for the free space on iCloud.

EDIT: Beat me to it. Walked out of office for a minute after typing response and came back in and his submit and then noticed someone said the same thing.
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i need to get to an apple store today...i avoided it this weekend, i wonder if any MI stores near the detroit area have it.
 
Diode said:
Ehhh not really surprising. It was available in more countries on launch day and on a new carrier here in the US. Of course they will sell more.
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Cause that's all it takes to sell $2.5 billion dollars in phones in one weekend. :rolleyes:

Canada and Australia have less than 10% of the GDP of the iPhone 4 launch countries and an even smaller percentage of their population. Hardly the primary reason for a 135% increase in first weekend sales.
 
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nope7308 said:
And they would sell another 4 million units if they kept their damn stores stocked! It's ridiculous how unlocked iPhones can only be purchased through the Apple store... instead of walking to a local retailer, I'm now resigned to waiting at least 2-3 weeks for the initial rush to die down.
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So you're saying they would sell zero more, but shift the sales forward. I doubt you're going to convince Apple that that's worth doing.
 
BaldiMac said:
That's not irony.
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The people would have still lined up even if there were no changes. The average person hears new iPhone, I want one and the rest is history as usual. The media contributes a lot to this phenomenon. People lined up to the buy the phone site unseen like they always do.
Try again, Baldi.
 
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Small White Car said:
Apple has apparently ramped up their production massively over the last few years.
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Apple's iPhone/iPad volumes so far have been limited ONLY by Apple's inability to make them fast enough.

No doubt one of Apple's reasons for staying with the same basic design is to improve on the manufacturing end of things.
 
ShionoyaTamaki said:
Hmm 20m iCloud users now. Each get 5gb free. Wonder how many hard drives they racking up for it in their sparkly new data center.
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Well, 20m users at 5GB each is "only" 100 petabytes. :) A Dell EqualLogic PS6510E chassis will hold forty-eight 2 TB drives in 4U of rack space. So for 100 PB, you'd need 1042 chassis (not counting RAID overhead) which would take just over 104 racks. (And 50,000 HDDs!) That's not a lot of floorspace for an entreprise level datacenter. Add in some extra chassis for redundancy, but then also remove some for deduplication, and you're not talking about much floorspace.
 
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