July 14th, 2008
First Weekend: One Million iPhone 3Gs Sold; Ten Million App Store Downloads
By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
On Monday Apple announced that one million iPhone 3Gs had been sold in the first weekend of sales. Additionally, Apple indicated that over ten million downloads App Store downloads had occurred in the same timeframe.
Since it took 74 days for the first iPhone to hit one million in sales, that was simply an incredible first weekend. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said:
“iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend. It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.”
“The App Store is a grand slam, with a staggering 10 million applications downloaded in just three days. Developers have created some extraordinary applications, and the App Store can wirelessly deliver them to every iPhone and iPod touch user instantly.”
Note that of the 800+ apps in the store, 200 are free, and Apple does not mention how many sold. However, the sheer number of downloads and sales makes one wonder how many downloads and sales would have occurred without the server issues (which AT&T was happy to blame on Apple).
Mindless Sheep!!! says:
Correction, they sold 1 million iBricks, as the vast majority of them could not get them activated!!!!
It will probably take 74 days to get them all in service! Big deal!!!
P.T. Barnum was right - there is a sucker born every minute!
July 14th, 2008 at 11:49 am
John says:
initially, there were problems with the AT&T servers. then the apple servers. by the time i bought my phone on the first day, they were not activating them in the store.
finishing up the activation process at the Apple store was adding 10-15 minutes per customer, so they stopped doing it in order to move through more customers.
the only problem i encountered was that itunes 7.7 was being a little squirrely on the install. i had to completely uninstall and remove 6.72. no data was lost, though.
a little hassle, but worth it to me.
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