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

[DougB541]

Can't wait to dump my iPhone for that rockin' email...
Sorry couldn't resist.

RIM/RIP
Palm/BK
Apple/Blue skies

HOly crap...its amazing its this tough to have a simply discussion here.


I never implied that Blackberry's are better than iPhones....I implied they do some things better...just like the iPhone does somethings better than blackberry's.....as teh Pre does some things better etc. etc. etc.

There are a lot of great phones on the market right now...but at the end of the day...It's all up to what YOU want in a phone. I don't think thats unreasonable to suggest. But if Apple wanted to go after the business market....no sane person would disagree they could improve their email on the iPhone.

 

[OllyW]

Honest question.

Have you ever owned a blackberry? It'll put most other phones email functions to shame. (including the Pre).

All i'm saying is...most corporations deal with blackberry's. And whoever I was quoting previously was claiming that Apple is going to kill RIM, Windows Mobile, Palm etc. (and I think he believes that Apple is going to bankrupt them all....and I think he may actually want that to happen for some reason).

That's one thing I can't understand with a lot of the people on here.

Why do they want companies that compete with Apple and employ thousands of people to go out of business?

 

[DougB541]

Just because your work colleagues use them, doesn't mean they are the best phone over all. BlackBerry is better at some things and the iPhone is better at other things.

1. Read above.

2. I NEVER SAID THEY WERE BETTER.

Macrumors always has this tendency to jump down anyone's throat who says anything that isn't on teh side of Apple.

 

[DougB541]

That's one thing I can't understand with a lot of the people on here.

Why do they want companies that compete with Apple and employ thousands of people to go out of business?

Beats me.

I honestly think some people just want Apple to be the only tech company out there.

 

[50548]

Beats me.

I honestly think some people just want Apple to be the only tech company out there.

Just tell us why email with the BB is better than with the iPhone 3GS, then.

Honestly, it doesn't help if all you say is "ESPN uses BB"...it's like saying that Windows is better because every company has it. Not to mention that Apple normally means LESS support needs, and perhaps less jobs in the IT department...needless to say, narrow-minded CIOs abhor that idea.

 

[kdarling]

Why do they want companies that compete with Apple and employ thousands of people to go out of business?

A lot are obviously kids. They still have a "us or them" mentality, and the need to belong to a popular group. Too young or immature to know what compromise is.

I'd love to see the real age of each poster here next to their name.

Ten years from now, most of them will be embarrassed to look back at what they wrote.

 

[ImNoSuperMan]

"Said Steve Jobs"

That's the greatest part of the article, right?

No truer words have ever been spoken.

 

[DougB541]

Just tell us why email with the BB is better than with the iPhone 3GS, then.

Honestly, it doesn't help if all you say is "ESPN uses BB"...it's like saying that Windows is better because every company has it. Not to mention that Apple normally means LESS support needs, and perhaps less jobs in the IT department...needless to say, narrow-minded CIOs abhor that idea.

I thought the use of me saying "anecdotal evidence is fun" was obvious enough for you to realize that I was insulting your use of anecdotal evidence as to why iPhone email was better than blackberry's.

Clearly I gave you too much credit. Anyway, you're a big boy, research it yourself. I'm not wasting anymore time with you.

 

[wfoster]

A lot are obviously kids. They still have a "us or them" mentality, and the need to belong to a popular group. Too young or immature to know what compromise is.

I'd love to see the real age of each poster here next to their name.

I'm fourteen I'm still a little naive but I'm getting there.

 

[Goona]

Roger Mcnamee is pretty old. Seems talking ***** is not just for kids.

 

[seedster2]

Don't introduce reality in some of these threads

I like my iPhone 3G a lot, but some of the fanboy statements posted are just ridiculous. Between BRLawyers quixotic statistics of email desirability or others' disregard for people having needs besides a phone syncing with their Mac - it's hard to not laugh.

I am happy Apple sold a lot of phones as it will hopefully result in a better offering the next time around and more feedback to improve their OS. I was offered the free upgrade, but i will wait to see what happens when the exclusivity expires with ATT and to see what BB has to offer.

Anyone who thinks BB is DEAD is either sadly delusional or hasn't seen any of their recent results quarterly results.

 

[50548]

A lot are obviously kids. They still have a "us or them" mentality, and the need to belong to a popular group. Too young or immature to know what compromise is.

I'd love to see the real age of each poster here next to their name.

Ten years from now, most of them will be embarrassed to look back at what they wrote.

And I hope you don't regret looking back at the silly seriousness of your message and realizing that, after all, we were just enjoying a good fanboyish time on a Mac-centered forum.

In a nutshell, take it easy, Sir: for years I've been saying that Apple's competitors are dead...an offspring of my support to the most innovative company in the world perhaps? I am not afraid of saying so and enjoying some schadenfreude, considering that I've continued to be an Apple user even during its darkest moments in the late 90s...remember how many said that Apple would be dead back then? Should I check their ages as well?

 

[SleepyHead157]

This is great news for apple, especially with Steve Jobs throwing in a quote as well. Apple avoided a huge black eye by not having the problems they had last year. They did a great job by offering 30 bucks to those that did face problems, so this year's launch was much smoother. 1 million phones in a weekend is amazing.

 

[rgarjr]

It is just mind blowing that Apple has only been in the cell phone biz only 3 years and has blown every cellphone out of the water from other companies that have been around for years in this field.

 

[HyperZboy]

I wonder how many phones were sold to new customers who never had an ihine before.

What's an "ihine" ? Is that similar to an iASS?

And if so, how can I get me a piece of that action?


(sorry bad joke, fun with typos, hehe )

 

[dicklacara]

haha.

no sir. You have it all figured out.

(i will advise you to take a trip to NYC if you want to see what people are using in business...I work for ESPN and not ONE person in the NY office uses an iPhone. We do offer it as a choice, but everyone goes with a blackberry.).

Anecdotal evidence is awesome eh?

Here's some more:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/22/12_of_early_iphone_3g_buyers_report_ditching_their_blackberry.html

Dick Applebaum (age 69)

 

[50548]

Thanks, jus' forgot to mention that piece of "anecdotal" evidence...and as another poster said above, it's amazing how Apple has been able to completely change the game in the cellphone industry...otherwise we'd all still be drooling over our now-obsolete Motorolas...

 

[kdarling]

Here's some more:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/22/12_of_early_iphone_3g_buyers_report_ditching_their_blackberry.html

Not likely that those are a lot of business users ditching their Blackberries. If a company requires one to access their intranet, there's not much choice.

However, since RIM's sales are now almost half to non-enterprise buyers, I can certainly see a lot of consumers switching.

 

[DougB541]

Thanks, jus' forgot to mention that piece of "anecdotal" evidence...and as another poster said above, it's amazing how Apple has been able to completely change the game in the cellphone industry...otherwise we'd all still be drooling over our now-obsolete Motorolas...

I hope no one owned a motorola prior to the iPhone launche.

Apple indeed changed how cell phones are done now. Finger friendly touch screens are clearly the future. Anyone denying that is smiply wrong.

Integrated app stores will be the future....however Apple had a bit of a bully move over AT&T that I'm not sure another phone company would've originally gotten away with haha. Carriers in the past only wanted their applications stores to live on the phones....AT&T, who clearly rolled the hell over for the iPhone let Apple have its own app store.

There was heavy stagnation in the mobile industry before Apple came in...but I think Steve Jobs saw this and realized this was a great market to jump into....which in turn, lit a fire under many other manufactures asses.

But seriously, any of these phones below should be perfect for many people's needs:

 

[Alexwithad]

I'm one of a million

 

[vansouza]

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

Welcome to the forum... I hope your iPhone brings you nothing but joy, mine sure does.

 

[zelmo]

The Samsung Jet looks like a decent phone.

It's great that they've pre-sold 2 million phones, which is pretty impressive and double what the 3GS sold in the first weekend. But the 3GS is only currently available in 8 countries and the Jet is available in 50. When they sell 6 million Jets in the first weekend, that will be most impressive indeed.

 

[DougB541]

The Samsung Jet looks like a decent phone.

It's great that they've pre-sold 2 million phones, which is pretty impressive and double what the 3GS sold in the first weekend. But the 3GS is only currently available in 8 countries and the Jet is available in 50. When they sell 6 million Jets in the first weekend, that will be most impressive indeed.

I think Samsung will do Android a lot more justice than HTC.

 

[supmango]

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.

It probably means that the majority of iPhone users don't sync their iPhone to iTunes everyday. Plus, has the software been out a week yet? iTunes checks automatically once every 7 days, so those who automatically checked the night before or even the morning of would not check again till this wednesday. Plus, I am sure the majority of people simply do not keep up with tech news like those of us here on the forum. Alot of people adopt it because they want a smart phone that is easy to use. They don't want to think about updates and things of that nature. I am sure numbers next weekend will show a lot higher adoption of 3.0.

 

[myca]

I hope no one owned a motorola prior to the iPhone launche.

Apple indeed changed how cell phones are done now. Finger friendly touch screens are clearly the future. Anyone denying that is smiply wrong.

Integrated app stores will be the future....however Apple had a bit of a bully move over AT&T that I'm not sure another phone company would've originally gotten away with haha. Carriers in the past only wanted their applications stores to live on the phones....AT&T, who clearly rolled the hell over for the iPhone let Apple have its own app store.

There was heavy stagnation in the mobile industry before Apple came in...but I think Steve Jobs saw this and realized this was a great market to jump into....which in turn, lit a fire under many other manufactures asses.

But seriously, any of these phones below should be perfect for many people's needs:

I've probably played around with/worked on every one of these phones (and more) and I'm gonna pick up one of the new 3GS iPhones on wednesday, now that my current contract is drawing to a close.

Seems that my contract timed out just about perfectly.

iPhones and hackintoshes FTW (oh and my PowerMac and MacBook)