Earlier today, reports started flowing in about Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster claiming 750,000 iPhone 3GS devices were sold over the weekend. In a news release, however, Apple claims that that number is off by more than 1/3, saying that sales actually exceeded 1 million units. In addition, the company says six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first five days since its release.
Remarkably, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is quoted at the beginning of the press release – something we haven’t seen for quite a while and this after a weekend during which it was uncovered the man had a liver transplant a couple of months ago – saying:
“Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning. With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.”
As a reminder, Apple also sold 1 million iPhone 3G devices on its first weekend back in July 2008.
I’m not entirely sure if this is new, but the press release also mentions that MMS on the AT&T network will be available in ‘late summer’ (it was ‘later this summer’ in all other communication about the launch date as far as I can remember).
If you have an iphone 3g – it automatically updates through itunes when you sync, which would account for some of the many 6 million OS3 downloads.
Does it? Nothing “automatically” happens. You have to approve it or click on “Update” from the iTunes iPhone Summary Screen.
Get the 3gs jailbroken and they will sell 3 million this weekend…
That number is not off by more than a 1/4, it is off by more than 1/3. 1/3 of 750,000 is 250,000.
Ha, thanks, corrected. Noteworthy is that Munster estimated sales of 500,000 before the weekend, which means he pegged it at half the number Apple claims it has sold just a few days ago.
Absolutely. I didn’t see anyone estimate sales this high.
Feel free to pass any further mathematical needs my way. I only charge $100 per calculation. I’m sure TC can afford my services.
Actually, before you fork over the $100, your original “more than 1/4″ was not wrong.
By definition (mathematical or otherwise) “more than 1/4″ is a correct way to describe the difference since “more than 1/4″ > “more than 1/3″
I won’t charge anyone any money. Truth is its own reward.
Ah, touché. However, if this were “the price is right,” I would’ve won. haha
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Just when many thought the Nokia N97 will dethrone the iPhone. I guess it’s not always about functionality (Marketing matters a lot)
Or perhps functionality isn’t always about features…
Or perhaps it’s because the screen on the N97 is something out of 2003 on a $700 phone. Nah, that couldn’t possibly be it!
Marketing does matter a lot. I think Nokia’s success owes a lot to their excellent marketing.
And Motorola’s demise owes a lot to their inability to create usable products.
Marketing will only get you so far. Usability is King.
Who actually thought that?
Maybe not in America (in the forefront of wireless tech, LOL) but checkout the N97 launch in Hong Kong (hint: on youtube). I guess some parts of the World (or maybe the rest of the World) do want and know how to use advanced features/functionality and not falling for eye candies on a dumbed down OS.
In some places (like Japan) you have to have the phone with the most checklist features simply as a matter of pride.
Even if many of the features are so poorly implemented as to be useless and even if you have no idea how to use them…
Maybe you’re right. But is it any different from people getting an iPhone in the name of coolness?
And yeah, maybe you are indeed right but fact is, in places like Japan, they do use more of their phone’s features; maybe not all features but certaintly more features than in America.
“The problem with the Nokia N97 is — and please don’t take this the wrong way — that this exact phone could have been launched 2 years ago and no one would have blinked. What other phone can you take out of it’s current place, drop back two years, and have no one question where it came from?” -BGR
Could you at least troll with a relatively modern (Pre, Android) phone? A resistive touch screen S60 phone, really?
LOL. Of all things, you quoted BGR??? That’s beyond pathetic.
BGR is probably the most well-known iPhone fanboy and anything-else hater on the Web. Serious readers thought his “review” of the N97 was total biased garbage. He hated the N97 the moment he first saw it — he already had a biased opinion about it before actually using it.
And by the way, the fetish about capacitive touch and the automatic dismissal of resistive touch is proof that you’re a clueless lemming.
Any reporter worth their salt knows that Steve Jobs did not actually write the quote that was attributed to him. No CEO or other upper management type from any large company ever does.
That’s not the point, Kenneth. It’s the first time Jobs gets quoted in 20+ Apple releases.
hah, CNN bet you to this one ;-/
And what did the Pre push? 50K?
What is a Pre?
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Love it. He complains that the iPhone upgrade only adds features that other phones have had for years, then states of the Pre, “Its good to see another phone on the market that is not complete crap…”
Guess all of those other phones weren’t that great after all.
BTW, when I was standing in line it looked like over a third were upgrading from the FIRST generation iPhone, and the 3GS is a significant upgrade for them.
Or not.
People love iPhone and do buy it for all its greatness. Not for the short comes you listed since the day Apple release the product.
It’s getting very pathetic and tiring to hear from both side to be honest.
But the list is getting shorter & shorter. Last year the iPhone didn’t even have Copy & Paste for crying out loud!
But did it matter that much? Apparently not for those near 20M iPhone 3G buyers.
Also if we review every phone with your kind of mentality, no thing will be worth buying. I mean nothing!
Symbian & WinMo too much menus!
Blackberry poor multimedia support & ancient app framework.
Android is just the pinnacle of geekiness.
Pre poor battery life & apps doesn’t do very much.
And tethering on the 3Gs is f*%king awesome, I have never seen my MacBook Pro fly so fast…
Happy Days.
I wouldn’t be too proud of that.
looks good ,but usless.
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Anything that keeps jobs in California instead of Nokialand or the far East is fine with me.
Perhaps we can stick some cogs and gears in Steve Jobs and keep him alive forever when the rest of him fails.
Only the phone’s design is in California; anything else is from outside the US.
You should buy four or five GM cars instead…
Honestly, why the heck would you want to buy the 3GS when you can get the 3G for $99? There’s really not much difference in terms of features.
It would be interesting to know how many standard iPhone 3G were sold over those two days.
For only a $100 more you get a better product. Why wouldn’t you get the 3GS? $100 isn’t a lot of money and if it I don’t think you should be spending your money on a iPhone and its monthly bill every month.
The real cost of the iPhone is in the monthly contract.
A. get an iphone that is still locked on ebay. The unlocked ones cost more.
B. use QuickPWN to unlock it in 2 minutes with a USB cable.
C. use WinSCP to erase the SIM checker with the Cydia SSH server for iPhone, and use the phone with T-Mobile edge at $24 for unlimited data, and with wifi, and use the $29 basic plan, using skype as your long distance.
D. You have officially beat the system. Congradulations.
Video, voice command, faster 3.5G when AT&T gets around to it, and the faster processor / additional memory make it well worth the extra $100, in my opinion.
I was able to sell my 3G online for enough to cover all but $30 of my upgrade anyways, so I was thrilled!
-CP
My sister has the new iPhone 3Gs. I wasn’t going to upgrade, but when you compare my iPhone 3G with the new one, it is slow as molasses. VERY slow (the 1.5x faster claims are true – especially on web browsing).
OMG!!!
Don’t you see??
Apple is on track to sell OVER 100 MILLION 3GS this year!! Stop the presses!!
(yawn) nice phone.
Shame about the network.
That’s great about the number of iPhone 3GS sold in its debut weekend.
I wonder how many ‘new’ customers AT&T gained as result of these 3GS sales? (vs. those existing AT&T customers who upgraded)
Exactly – that is the number I care about. How many of this number ALREADY had an iPhone of some sort? This is a non factor if it’s just exsisting users as it does nothing to grow the market share. Break out all the areas outside of the US and what is THAT number?
I’m thinking 300,000 stateside and of that 50-100,000 were to new subs.
Ah… fine. Now ask yourself where who they’re giving their old 3G phone to…
Everyone I know who upgraded from a 1st or 2nd generation phone is either presenting them as gifts to friends and family or selling them online. None are going into drawers.
I love it ………….!!!!
Has anyone else noticed the rear views are not of an iPhone 3GS? (the 3GS has silvered text, FCC logo etc)