Apple sells over one million iPhones during launch weekend, six million OS 3.0 downloads
It looks like dogs everywhere are in for some trouble as Apple reveals over one million iPhone 3G S models were sold this past weekend. Yep, that’s a whole lot of high pitched squealing — but apparently the “S” stands for “Sales”. Almost equally as impressive, it looks like Steve Jobs was somehow tracked down for comment:
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.
Fair enough, Stevo… Over a million handsets sold and over six million OS 3.0 downloads in one weekend is definitely a solid showing. What’s more is that despite a few issues here and there, users seem overwhelmingly happy with their new handsets. How about you guys — satisfied customers or buyer’s remorse?
PS- Apple, your website is slathered with “3G S” and today’s release repeatedly mentions “3GS”. Work it out.
I will not get the new 3G-S. Next year this time they will finially boost the camera to 5.0mp and hopefully flash. I can’t see myself shelling out $200 every year or trying to find a way to upgrade. I know why they add a few features here and there, but in this economy show me a more and then I will pay. The new phone doesnt add much for me, the new 3.0 OS leaves me less than impressed. What the hell did it offer that was ground moving. In these times give people what they want, more features for the same price you charged last year.
This was released in 2 other countries besides the US on June 19th. How well did it do in the US? Nice of them to release a total number. How about a break down in each country sold?
I’ll let you know after the 25th… My AT&T year (15 months) is up then. I’m switching over from BB Curse to the iPhone.
-Mr. R
I bought two 32gb 3G Ss(one for gf) early on Friday and we both love them so far. She is only using it as a phone and Ipod and enjoys it and I’m already got a ton of apps and couldn’t be happier. They forgot to put text on hers and were able to fix it right away over the phone without a long wait.
a solid phone all around, still the best web browser out there. Feels like palm,samsung,HTC, just playing catch up with Apple.
@Iphone 3G No Bars,
I 100% totally agree with you!
Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Houston United States
Way to contradict yourself Zach E. “certainly no where near the sales of 3G”…lets try this, how about you get the facts, then you blog about it once you do…
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/06/19/de-la-vega-iphone-3g-s-demand-exceeding-expectations-hundreds-of-thousands-of-pre-orders/
SPRINT still losing customers to the IPhone.
Wait, so the 3rd generation update, which is just now adding compass and video recording, still no real MMS or tethering out of the box (which is coming, I understand… but it took 3 years?) and still lacks a flash (wow, look, I just recorded all that darkness in 720p! Whoop!)… and you’re trying to say everyone else is catching up? What exactly is HTC and Palm behind on other than sales? Apple iPhone is huge and there’s never been an argument about that, but as far as being the end-all be-all… it’s far from it.
no buyers remorse from me, well i’m kinda upset i got black, i think i will pay the restocking fee and exchange to a white one.
Love my new iPhone but hate the dropped calls and slow data. Switching back to the more reliable sprint network.
Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).
Analyst compared last year results and the 3G s crushed them and it was only being sold in 8 countries as supposed to last years 3g that was sold 23 countries opening weekend
Blackberry Sucks!
I think we are forgetting what always happens with Apple computing products… the faithful update at full price for even the slightest changes. 1 Million is huge… but how many are new customers and how many are just replacing iphones? Same can be said of Blackberry, whose last quarters numbers on roughly half were for new users. So, BGR, care to find that number for us?
This isn’t an end-all be-all phone people, it does what it needs to do and does a good job at it. That’s why people love it so much, people can complain all day about what it can’t do but in the end…nobody cares cuz it wasn’t there before and it still sold just fine.
An “Apple” a day keeps the Palm Pre away. How catchy.
Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Redlands United States
@ Steve,
Apparently people do care; otherwise, they wouldn’t be complaining “all day about what it can’t do.”
I’m loving the fact that the iPhone 3G S either just detects i’m at starbucks, and doesn’t make me sign in, get a text etc….
Or maybe it’s 3.0, either way, Now it’s worth it to use for 10 min if that’s all I got
Sales numbers- I had to move since I Grad from school in LA, to this place in the middle of nowhere, called Alabama, to coach BBall , and even my store, who had 100
Phones, sold out !
I was shocked ……
Sweetttt
Rob
Ps I bet those iPhone sales don’t include all the 3G’s that got sold as well, just not sold by apple and at
Like a few others have said, I am interested to see the U.S. sales figures. Beyond that, I am just jealous that the Pre doesn’t have the MLB At Bat and XM apps. Palm really has to get on the app catalog– like now. The apps are what sets the iPhone apart from the Pre right now.
@jeremyblaze
Well, you have to look at it from both sides; Apple and the carriers. From Apple’s end, they don’t give a crap how many people are upgrading, paying full retail, new customers, etc. They get a set price for each and every phone sold.
I’m not sure if new activations or upgrades done in Apple stores give Apple the revenue an AT&T store would have got, I doubt it.
From the carrier’s perspective, new subs are awesome, but they are just as happy when you upgrade your line. Full retail buyers (an incredibly small, small percentage) are the least attractive to carriers as you can probably guess why.
This was an amazing success for Apple whichever way you slice it. Launching in the worst economic period in recent years, launching on less carriers than last year, introducing a “spec-bump” as opposed to brand new phone, and still producing better results than last year?
Incredible.
Sold in less countries too. 8 vs 21 and AT&T was quoting that orders online were in the several hundreds of thousands….
@BGR Obviously it is impressive, but you are forgetting that AT&T offered to subsidize early 3g buyers, so to them, they very much do care. Keeping iphones in existing users hands is great, but AT&T really needs to get new users, as this is the only way they can increase revenue.
As for Apple, they need to grow the ecosystem. The more users, the more AppStore/Itunes growth, the more lock-in they get. Apple’s revenue from those is small, but since most Apple users to upgrade, adding new users is the best way to grow the ecosystem and ensure future locked-in revenue.
Again, not dogging these numbers, just trying to find a breakdown.
sad that boy genius not doing well in their RIMM position? stop bagging AAPL champs. Love ya
Nice numbers but two points:
1) These figures include a week or so of pre-orders. This isn’t three days of madness like there was when the 3G went on sale.
2) The 3GS ‘only’ went on sale in 8 countries, however those 8 countries account for about 80% of iPhone sales.
The quarterly reslts and AT&T’s new subscriber totals will be more revealing.
@Huh?
Yes everyone is still playing catch up. Here is what my iPhone has that everyone doesn’t, and is trying to get.
1) Game changing interface. Everyone has been trying to mimic or outdo the iPhone interface ever since it has come out. And so far, nobody has been able to yet, ESPECIALLY BlackBerry and WinMo who both have extremely outdated interfaces. New phones get released all the time trying to up the interface ante. Playing catch up still? I think so … and iPhone has been out for a while.
2) Next generation application support. iPhone has higher quality, better looking, and more responsive apps than the other guys … and we have more of them. After using my iPhone for a while, these apps feel more like mobile computing software while the apps on BB or WM feel like stripped down cell phone programs. BB and WM have a long way to go to catch up with the new-comer as far as their software is concerned. Will they release better SDK so they can catch up to iPhone level apps?
3. Copy and Paste. Yes, iPhone got it last, but we do it a lot better than you now. I can copy and paste more than just text. I can copy blocks of text, links, images, tables, text formatting … and have them appear perfectly in tact when I paste into an email message. Can your WinMo, BB, or Symbian do that? I don’t think so. Most I can hope for with BB or WinMo is to use their browsers features to email, PIN, or MMS a picture from a web page. I suspect though, that the other guys are going to catch up to match iPhones ability to copy and paste.
4. Push notification. While this one is still new, it is something RIM has announced as well. The ability for ALL of my programs to notify me of changes without them running is way better than running hundreds of programs at one time in the background eating my RAM and battery. RIM has already announced it, and I suspect WM will get a push notification API for software.
5. Push sync for EVERYTHING. I have wireless push syncing for Contacts (including pictures), Calendar, Email (including folders), and even browser bookmarks now. Can your WM or BB (without BES because most people dont have that) do that? I don’t think so … but I suspect the other guys are catching up.
5. Full push email syncing. I love how my email syncs everything with my email provider. I can make folders, organize email into folders. When I move email to folders on my desktop, they automatically show up that way on phone. When I delete something on desktop, they delete on phone. When I delete email on desktop, I can search through my trash on the phone if I need to retrieve it later when I realize I accidentally erased it. Can your BB or WM claim that? I suspect they will be able to later as soon as they catch up to iPhone email. And yes, MobileME and Yahoo mail is push, while Gmail is not.
6. Browser. People are still trying to catch up with the browsing experience of the iPhone. Not only the interface with multitouch, but speed as well. And yes, Opera Mini on wifi does serve up web pages faster than my iPhone on wifi because of the proxy. But it comes nowhere close to the experience of being able to browse using a seamless interface with multi-touch scrolling, zooming, and panning. And according to tests, iPhone 3Gs is faster than Pre or Android. People have been trying to catch up for the longest time. Have they? Not yet … but close.
7. Video recording with built in editing. How many of your phones feature video recording at 30fps and the ability to trim the video using the same native software and share it on the internet using the same integrated software? None? I suspect though, that HTC will upgrade their video recorder so you can trim video just like us iPhone users can do without 3rd party apps.
And yes, background apps are a no go. But you know what? I really don’t care. The promise that all of my programs can notify me WITHOUT them running eating my battery and wasting my RAM is a lot better to me. I don’t have to manage my running programs and make sure they are running for me to get notified. I can just use phone and go. I used to run WinMo and when the software crashed, you have to go back and run all of your software again so you get notified. When my iPhone crashes, I don’t have to do anything because the 50 programs with push will all notify me still without me touching them. Can YOUR platform do that YET? I don’t think so.
You left out more stuff.
Optical Grade Glass Oleophobic Coating Screen – NOT PLASTIC
3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
CPU/GPU same as the pre
Open GL/ES 2.0 Optimized by iPhone OS
16GB/32GB
8GB for $99
Talk time: Up to 12 hours on 2G – Up to 5 hours on 3G
Standby time: Up to 300 hours
Internet use: Up to 5 hours on 3G – Up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours
Audio playback: Up to 30 hours
Size and weight
Height: – 4.5 inches (115.5 mm)
Width: – 2.4 inches (62.1 mm)
Depth: – 0.48 inch (12.3 mm)
Weight: – 4.8 ounces (135 grams)
iTunes seamless integration
Movies
Video PodCast
Audio PodCast
TV Shows
Music
Music Videos
iTunes University
iTunes Latino
50 thousand apps and growing fast
REAL High End 3D accelerated Games
High End Applications
Dock Connector API and I can’t wait to see the 3rd party hardware stuff coming this summer. This alone pushes the iPhone way beyond the wanna bees.
BT API
MobileMe with Locate me and Remote Wipe
Apps open and switch instantly now
Superior battery life by a huge margin
Video Recording ( Widescreen ) and Instant Editing right on the iPhone, Instant Share to YoutTube, MobileMe and eMail
Instantly share pictures to MobileMe Gallery
It’s an iPod!!
Safari with AI, Multi-Touch controls
Real Cut, Copy & Paste. Yeah even non editable text can be copied.
Voice Memos
Voice Control and yeah not just English, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, English (UK), English (U.S.), Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), Germanm, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish,, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish
MMS with full copy and paste
Real Universal Global Search to the Framework/API level. It mean all apps, not just core apps get Global Search
Keyboard with the best predictive intelligence yet. Has 40 international layouts and growing. Nice to have a virtual keyboard to easily add languages.
Dictionary supports international languages also
Character recognition so you can write in Chinese characters!
Digital compass ( hikers/bikers/campers ) will love this
Tethering
Nike + iPod
Parental Control – Restrict: Safari, YouTube, iTunes, Installing Apps, Camera, Location, In-App Purchases, Explicit lyrics in music and podcasts, Movies by rating (R, PG-13, etc…) or movies in general, TV by rating (TV-MA, TV-14, etc…) or TV in general, Apps by rating (17+, 12+, etc…) or Apps in general
Autofocus and selectable Focus on the Camera!
Photo and Video Geotagging
Google Sync
Exchange Sync
AGPS – Voice Turn by Turn support
Viewable document types: .jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel)