One Million iPhones in 3 Days

[rdy0329]

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Press Release:
Via Gizmodo through Apple

CUPERTINO, California—July 14, 2008—Apple® today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone™ 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries—Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US—and will go on sale in France on July 17.
“iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “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 new iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone plus 3G networking that is twice as fast*, built-in GPS for expanded location-based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs over 800 third party applications available through the new App Store. In the US, the new iPhone 3G is priced at just $199 for the 8GB model, and $299 for the 16GB model**.
*Based on 3G and EDGE testing. Actual speeds vary by site conditions.
**Requires new two-year AT&T rate plan for qualified customers, sold separately.

What do you think 50 more countries will add to Apple's revenues, I calculated 1 million iPhones x $499 unsubsidized price Apple will get from the carrier = HUGE amount of money!

It's fun being Steve right now.

[iphooone]

I agree. Obviously it doesn't all go to him. he's gona roll it over for the next iPhone that he's going to put out.

[lawrencebosox45]

yeah thats a scary number... to think that probably 90+% are legit purchases also...

[Mocha.Frap]

Whoah! 1 Million in 3 days! Thats a lot!! Kudos to Steve Jobs and his iPhone 3g

[raypin]

a million in 3 days is not the most impressive.
actually even that is not that impressive considering
that the original iphone was priced rather high
resulting inhesitancy on the part of many
buyers. That and the fact that the original
iphone was apple's first ever mobile (untried
technology blah blah.).


for perspective, try a million a day. Nokia sells that many
every single year for the last few years.

worldwide, 1.1 billion mobiles were sold last year.

[jha]

a million in 3 days is not the most impressive.

try a million a day. Nokia sells that many
every single year for the last few years.

worldwide, 1.1 billion mobiles were sold last year.

You're referring to overall Nokia sales regardless of model. Apple sold 1m in 3 days for just a single model (though 2 variants 8 and 16gb but still impressive for me).

I doubt Nokia can top that.

[raypin]

You're referring to overall Nokia sales regardless of model. Apple sold 1m in 3 days for just a single model (though 2 variants 8 and 16gb but still impressive for me).

I doubt Nokia can top that.

I'd still rather sell a million candies a day in a hundred varieties than......

[Reggie]

A $99 iPhone with wifi and no data plan should sell like hotcakes.

[raypin]

A $99 iPhone with wifi and no data plan should sell like hotcakes.

nah......try a nanonized iphone and sell it for 50 bucks and apple will own
the mobile world.

[PatrickGaerlan]

I think 1 million iPhone 3Gs sold in 3 days is pretty impressive, considering that's it's currently not available without a plan and in relatively few countries.