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Over One Million iPhone 3G S Models Sold on Launch Weekend

My wife and I are very fortunate that our existing cell contract expires this week. AND that Apple brought out a great product. AND we go pick ours up Wednesday (SS hits the bank that morning).

I'm a retired life long IBM'er. The day I retired I bought my first Mac, an LC. 17 years and 7 Macs later I get my first portable handheld computer, the iPhone 3GS...

I went to the local Apple Store late Friday afternoon (my wife works in the same mall) and was amazed how fast the thing is. No wonder AT&T hasn't enabled tethering and MMS yet... if they did their networks would crash from people making and sending videos...

Anyway as a first post here: I've been lurking and reading on this forum for some time. Nice meeting all you folks, a great bunch of people.

Michael
 
Wow, I was not expecting that. By all rights this was a smaller type of upgrade then the 3G was and reports of shorter lines also fed the perception that it was going to be a smaller event, but I suppose those folks (like me) purchased their phones online helped bump up the numbers and yet kept the lines short.
 
Very impressive rollout. Having said that, the numbers would have been much higher if the subsidy issue with current 3G owners had been a little more affordable.
 
Palm Pre: 50,000 sold in the first weekend
iPhone 3GS: 1,000,000 sold in the first weekend

Another "iPhone killer" goes down in flames. And a hundred million Apple haters wail and gnash their teeth in rage and frustration. Can't wait to see what the Winbot trolls in the Engadget comments section have to say. :D
 
You should better compare it to the Nokia sales than to Palm, Blackberry or anything else.

For example the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic sold 13 million times in less than 6 months. The N95 sold 17 million until today. I'm sure the Nokia N97 will also outsell the iPhone easily. You just have to check the Hong Kong opening videos on youtube to estimate that.
 
LagunaSol said:
Palm Pre: 50,000 sold in the first weekend
iPhone 3GS: 1,000,000 sold in the first weekend

Another "iPhone killer" goes down in flames. And a hundred million Apple haters wail and gnash their teeth in rage and frustration. Can't wait to see what the Winbot trolls in the Engadget comments section have to say. :D
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AT&T alone outsold all the Pres on pre orders alone.
 
zacman said:
You should better compare it to the Nokia sales than to Palm, Blackberry or anything else.

For example the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic sold 13 million times in less than 6 months. The N95 sold 17 million until today. I'm sure the Nokia N97 will also outsell the iPhone easily. You just have to check the Hong Kong opening videos on youtube to estimate that.
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So what are those N97 sales like? Expectations of sales equal to the N95, about 10 million units. Except N97 wasn’t picked up by any US carriers that I know of yet. So Apple ain't doing bad, for a weekend, and in a few countries.
 
Luke1robb said:
I agree, I've been shocked at how many people I've talked to that have NO IDEA about the 3.0 software. Also, I talked to at least one person who was telling me how irritated he was that the new iPhone users (3G S owners) got copy & paste, etc. He was shocked to find out when I told him that he could get those features by syncing with iTunes.

I guess Apple isn't really promoting the 3.0 software to current users, it's either like you follow the stuff and know or you'll find out when you sync up to your iTunes. In the long run, I guess it makes sense, why spend money on people who are getting a free upgrade, but why not have AT&T/Apple send out one of those texts that they sent out for 2.0 saying there's a new firmware available and briefly listing the features?
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My guess would be that they didn't want everybody and his brother to be hitting their servers on launch day. They will be sending out emails to everybody soon I'm sure.
 
zacman said:
You should better compare it to the Nokia sales than to Palm, Blackberry or anything else.

For example the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic sold 13 million times in less than 6 months. The N95 sold 17 million until today. I'm sure the Nokia N97 will also outsell the iPhone easily. You just have to check the Hong Kong opening videos on youtube to estimate that.
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Please give us some sources for those numbers.
 
zacman said:
You should better compare it to the Nokia sales than to Palm, Blackberry or anything else.
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Actually, in this case no.

It's the iPhone 3Gs model compared to the Pre these days.

And in that arena, the 3Gs comes out on top.

However, your point is taken in that other companies sell many more cell phones than Apple. Nobody is denying that.
 
ryanguill said:
I understand that not everyone would upgrade to the new software as soon as it comes out, but 6 million out of 40 million phones sounds extremely low to me. I would have expected the majority of iphone users to be early adopters and technologically progressive enough to have upgraded by now, but maybe it is still a little too soon.

Guess that just goes to show you though that on a macro scale, the majority of iphone users really weren't missing copy/paste functionality all that much.
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You might think that but in the office where I work I know two others who have an iPhone 3G and neither has updated yet. In fact, neither of them have ever even connected their phones to iTunes or their computers and didn't even know about the update until I mentioned it. Welcome to the masses...
 
jholzner said:
You might think that but in the office where I work I know two others who have an iPhone 3G and neither has updated yet. In fact, neither of them have ever even connected their phones to iTunes or their computers and didn't even know about the update until I mentioned it. Welcome to the masses...
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I certainly understand that there is going to be a segment of the iphone user population that is not tech-savvy and not ever going to upgrade the phone in their life. There is probably also a segment who will never install a single app on their phone. I am just saying that I am surprised that that segment of the population would be so large.

Still, it is probably still early. There has been no SMS notification from AT&T like there was with the 2.0 like the other commenter mentioned, and many people who do sync with iTunes on a regular basis, it may not have checked yet for updates ( I think it only does it automatically every 7 days). I know if I hadn't hit the check for updates button it wouldn't have checked until the 25th I think.

Not to say that 6 million is anything to sneeze at, I am just remarking that to my admittedly ignorant assumptions, I expected a larger percentage that what they are announcing.
 
jholzner said:
You might think that but in the office where I work I know two others who have an iPhone 3G and neither has updated yet. In fact, neither of them have ever even connected their phones to iTunes or their computers and didn't even know about the update until I mentioned it. Welcome to the masses...
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What's the point of having an iPhone if you don't connect it to your PC/MAC? :confused:

Do they have/used to have iPods too? ;)
 
My wife was patiently enthusiastic in January. Two weeks ago I was glued to my computer following the WWDC address... I showed her videos of the phone's capabilities and she was very impressed. Over this weekend I scrounged up APPs I knew she would like and now she can't wait. It's not merely the phone, but what you can do on it and with it...

Like I said it will be my first handheld computer.


PS I need some feedback, sorry for any possible threadjack. We live in the sticks in Central Jersey, nice area. Our Verizon coverage is pretty lousy. Knowing the bad rep that AT&T Network has I am concerned about coverage being good enough I can make use of what the iPhone can do on our property. We have cable internet. I was considering getting an Airport Extreme - which if I read the specs right makes my home a WiFi hotspot - so I know my home signal will be pretty strong... Anyone techie enough to help me on this I would appreciate the advice...
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16)

That is better than what was anticipated I believe.
 
Most people don't follow iPhone update details the way we do. But don't worry, remember that iTunes automatically checks for updates. So over the next several weeks, people will be prompted to get the update automatically. Almost all people will get it eventually, I'm sure.
 
LagunaSol said:
Palm Pre: 50,000 sold in the first weekend
iPhone 3GS: 1,000,000 sold in the first weekend

Another "iPhone killer" goes down in flames. And a hundred million Apple haters wail and gnash their teeth in rage and frustration. Can't wait to see what the Winbot trolls in the Engadget comments section have to say. :D
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Remember - it took about 70 days for the original iPhone to sell a million.

I wouldn't count the Pre out by any means, but these numbers are impressive.
 
I tried all weekend to get BUT Best Buy can't keep them in stock. (I have gift cards) Why oh why can't they get some in????
 
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