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Apple Sells One Million 3G iPhones First Weekend
techcrunch.com — Despite a few hiccups and stores running out of inventory, Apple was able to sell one million 3G iPhones worldwide across 21 countries its first three days on sale. During that same time, owners of both the new and old iPhone were able to download 10 million apps from the newly launched App Store on iTunes, despite a few hiccups with the iPhone 2.0
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- KonstantinLevin, on 07/15/2008, -28/+11st guy in iPhone line lands a date with hot Apple employee -- People who wait hours in line for a phone: Odd. People who wait days in line for a phone (from July 4), hitting on a cute Apple Store employee the whole time, eventually asking her out and getting a date for next Tuesday: Not so odd. Actually: kind of heroic. PICTURES AND VIDEO. -- http://digg.com/apple/1st_guy_in_iPhone_line_lands ...
- REM333, on 07/15/2008, -1/+7Quit spamming
- sovietninja, on 07/15/2008, -16/+6So whatever the profit is per iPhone sold, times that by one million. Apple made more in a weekend than I will in my entire life. I am so depressed right now. I RROD'd just browsing the marketplace. Please pray for me. rAmen.
- jerrycurley, on 07/15/2008, -4/+2most people make more in one weekend than you will make in your entire life. What is your point?
- sovietninja, on 07/15/2008, -3/+1Bring back the Soviet Union so that you can work for me in the Gulag. I can test the black oil on you.
- jerrycurley, on 07/15/2008, -4/+2most people make more in one weekend than you will make in your entire life. What is your point?
- Telmarine, on 07/15/2008, -13/+5Why would people waste their entire day in line? They should just wait a few days, after all, no piece of electronics is worth wasting your entire day on.
But I could be wrong, I never used the iPhone- wacomwacoff, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Because it's a group community experience hanging out with your friends all day, and you're part of something historic. The people in line are featured on the news, interviewed for the paper, and have a good time.
- damien6669, on 07/15/2008, -4/+46This is Hilarious, how the hell can so many versions of the same story make it to the front page. I am an apple fanboy to the extreme, but the is bloody ridiculous.
- Timmaay, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Xtreme!
- ADIOlab, on 07/15/2008, -5/+3fanboy as well..... and I agree with you. this is horrible...
do people just ignore the search results? digg is getting worse and worse..
I miss the old digg. (2005 - 2006 : the good ol' days)- r3zonance, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Yes they ignore the search results, they only care about their attention-whoring name being up in lights.
- shadowfoxmi, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1and British?
- ccourt23, on 07/15/2008, -4/+15This is like the 4th time this story reached the first page.
- Tyrghast, on 07/15/2008, -16/+8Apple sells one million toys to suckers it's first weekend. AT&T ass-raping to be billed next month.
- wacomwacoff, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Jealous much?
Sure, because who would want a sophisticated multitouch web device / phone that fits in their pocket?
- wacomwacoff, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Jealous much?
- Mickeh65, on 07/15/2008, -4/+12Fail...
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_sells_1_million_iPhone ... - krusader3z, on 07/15/2008, -6/+1How long before I'm able to get a first Gen iPhone on the cheap?
- fazik93, on 07/15/2008, -1/+4You're gonna have to buy it on ebay
- soupdawg30, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Check eBay in a month.
- superkendall, on 07/15/2008, -0/+4Bad news for you, the price will only go up as older models are sold for unlocking and become more rare.
- r3zonance, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2On eBay, in the UK, jailbroken 1.1.4 8GB used iPhone 1st Gens are fetching between £150-225.
- Red1Delta, on 07/15/2008, -1/+30In recent news Steve Jobs is able to afford Canada.
- CMiYC, on 07/15/2008, -0/+14With the US Dollar no less.
- Galaxylander, on 07/15/2008, -6/+2Steve Jobs is the worlds lowest paid CEO. Apple maybe. Steve.... no.
- Protoss, on 07/15/2008, -0/+7Stock options...
- wellyuk, on 07/15/2008, -1/+11What he lacks in a salary is more than made up for in hand jobs, massages and other bonuses.
- McHoffa, on 07/15/2008, -0/+9i just wish i was anywhere near as low paid as he is
- Gioleb, on 07/15/2008, -0/+10But I still don't think he can afford a Rogers plan.
- AZRoboto, on 07/15/2008, -0/+4http://digg.com/apple/Apple_sells_1_million_iPhone ...
This headline is a number and a preposition different from the article in the Top Ten. - btschul, on 07/15/2008, -1/+4Call Guinness
- sockpuppets, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Brilliant!
- tinygibbles, on 07/15/2008, -1/+12And this was all done with brick and mortar sales models, not click and order. Damn.
- narcofiche, on 07/15/2008, -9/+7The iPhone is a cool little toy and there's no wonder why it's such a huge hit, but I generally leave the house to get away from the computer. As a Mac user for the past 20 years I've always wanted Apple to become as big as it is now, but comparing my experience with the products now from the ones back then, I'm kind of regretting what I wished for.
- rodrigo74, on 07/15/2008, -3/+3"As a _________ for the past _____ years I've always wanted _______ to become as big as it is now, but comparing my experience with _______ now from the ones back then, I'm kind of regretting what I wished for."
It's just you that is getting older and consequently more nostalgic.- narcofiche, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1I'm talking about the problems I've had in the past (pre-intel switch) and the problems I've had since. I'm talking about my experience. Not only have I had to take my computer in for the first time ever, but all of the people I've told to switch to the Mac are upset with me. So yeah, if nostalgia for me is a period where my Mac performed like my trusty G5 running Panther, then maybe that's what it is. It sure beats the days when I didn't go through 2 Apple keyboards, 4 mighty mouses, 2 notebooks and 3 iPods in the span of a year.
It's like the Obama/McCain thing. I'll still vote Obama, but with all the news that has been coming out the past couple weeks, I won't be entirely as happy about it as I used to be. - rodrigo74, on 07/15/2008, -1/+2That's why even though I love my mac, I don't recommend it to people, not even when they ask me directly: I always tell them to try if they want to, let them play with my macbook so they get a feel of it, ask me technical questions if they want to, but make up their own minds. It is a very personal choice (at least for people that spend more than 20 hours a week using it), like cars and shoes. And people love to blame others than themselves when things go wrong..
Regarding the problems with mice and keyboards, just get another brand, the ones produced by apple suck anyway..it's a hopeless case of form over function and ergonomics.
I do think that Panther was more reliable than Tiger and especially Leopard, though. I hope things improve with Snow Leopard.
- narcofiche, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1I'm talking about the problems I've had in the past (pre-intel switch) and the problems I've had since. I'm talking about my experience. Not only have I had to take my computer in for the first time ever, but all of the people I've told to switch to the Mac are upset with me. So yeah, if nostalgia for me is a period where my Mac performed like my trusty G5 running Panther, then maybe that's what it is. It sure beats the days when I didn't go through 2 Apple keyboards, 4 mighty mouses, 2 notebooks and 3 iPods in the span of a year.
- rodrigo74, on 07/15/2008, -3/+3"As a _________ for the past _____ years I've always wanted _______ to become as big as it is now, but comparing my experience with _______ now from the ones back then, I'm kind of regretting what I wished for."
- lolupissed, on 07/15/2008, -11/+5I'm typing this on my iPhone digg me up cause I'm hot
- panteradactyl, on 07/15/2008, -0/+5Deja vu...............
from looking at the front page 2 seconds before i clicked it...- Dylson, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Welcome to digg.
- zjbird, on 07/15/2008, -8/+4and about 17 were activated..
- panteradactyl, on 07/15/2008, -3/+1Craigslist is getting bogged down as we speak
- bicycleman, on 07/15/2008, -9/+1All I can say is HP IPaq 910 will kick the ass of any iPhone any day. Slight more, but slightly more worth it.
- wacomwacoff, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Actually no. Piece of crap really.
- ipodboy61, on 07/15/2008, -5/+5its official, steve ballmer is wrong about everything!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0h9Ulwdgfs- rodrigo74, on 07/15/2008, -2/+2Ballmer IS a douchebag, but you gotta consider that he was talking about a $500 phone, not $200 ..that changes everything.
But yeah, he is a moron.- Billions, on 07/15/2008, -1/+2Yeah, a major head of a tech corporation forgets to factor in tech prices going down over time... Right.
No, very little has changed: Ballmer is wrong about everything.
- Billions, on 07/15/2008, -1/+2Yeah, a major head of a tech corporation forgets to factor in tech prices going down over time... Right.
- rodrigo74, on 07/15/2008, -2/+2Ballmer IS a douchebag, but you gotta consider that he was talking about a $500 phone, not $200 ..that changes everything.
- pedepy, on 07/15/2008, -0/+6geeez what's up with dupes check algo...
Buried for quintupled submit.- lovecss, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2"Totally original, I swear!"
- DDMX, on 07/15/2008, -1/+3Still no more iPhones at my local Apple Store. They sold out on Friday. None expected in stock tomorrow, either.
- alwilson, on 07/15/2008, -3/+6Thanks for sharing
- jerrycurley, on 07/15/2008, -5/+0Gee, I hope we get 5-6 more front page submissions about how Apple failed to live up to all the predictions made last week of close to 2 million.
- tigre, on 07/15/2008, -5/+1So, if a cellular company charges about $2000 for services per iPhone over the course of two years. Phone companies worldwide will gross about $1,000,000,000 (One Billion) for cellular charges for only the iPhones sold THIS last weekend. I imagine that number could easily triple given the expected amount of 3G sales. I don't know but it sure seems like a lot of money, but people are very willing to part with said money for a shiny object. I myself will be attempting to allocate enough "Bling" to purchase a iPhone before the year is out.
- Crystalemera, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1If you think scraping together $200 for a newly released phone is outrageous, then you haven't been a wireless customer for very long. As I recall the Razr was $600 with a $100 rebate when it was considered the "it" phone.
- bcrich999, on 07/15/2008, -1/+22The chicks for these t-shirt ads are pretty hot
- CountBrass, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1I agree! It's almost worth following each story to see which ones you get on that page.
Wonder if Digg could bring out some sort of collectable game involving them? Or perhaps some kind of Top Trumps?
- CountBrass, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1I agree! It's almost worth following each story to see which ones you get on that page.
- alwilson, on 07/15/2008, -2/+1Shouldn't we be talking about Budweiser instead?
- colosis, on 07/15/2008, -2/+24oh man, finally an iphone article, i was getting pretty tired of waiting
- gogoma, on 07/15/2008, -2/+0ONE MIIILLLLLIIIOOOOOONNNN...
- tigre, on 07/15/2008, -5/+0I meant $1,000,000,000 gross for one year.
- jeffr116, on 07/15/2008, -4/+1I guess all that coke Steve Jobs has been snorting finally paid off.
http://s.wsj.net/media/Jobs_art_160_20080610143454 ... - H0tKarl, on 07/15/2008, -8/+4iPhones are gay because I can't afford one.
- wellyuk, on 07/15/2008, -1/+2Come on guys, stop submitting the same ***** story. It's not difficult.
- l31101, on 07/15/2008, -1/+4Stop digging the same story!!!
- diggadigga, on 07/15/2008, -2/+2"That brings the total number of iPhones sold since the launch of the first generation phone to more than 7 million"
This was my reaction http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m293/davidjungc ... - handheldchimp, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Super Duplicate to the rescue!!
- kufurex, on 07/15/2008, -4/+4The only douchebaggery worse than standing in line to buy an iPhone is posting articles about how over a million morons stood in line to get iPhones.
- chirax, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1The "Great iPhone Sucks in India"
http://thetoptenme.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/top-10 ...- superkendall, on 07/15/2008, -2/+1Reason #9 is odd "GPS Does matter"
Yes, yes it does. Which is why the new phone has GPS.
Also if your internet connections are already really slow, than EDGE (which should be found in more places than 3G) will actually seem pretty decent. People might well start using the iPhone as a primary browsing device.
It is weird not having the iTunes store in India, but selling iPhone there... they must now have some kind of store if only to buy apps! - chirax, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Reason #9 is odd "GPS Does matter"
Yes, yes it does. Which is why the new phone has GPS.
But India's infrastructure sucks. and I mean Big time SUCKS. The govt dosen't want to move on as a lot of there investments have gone into to this.
"It is weird not having the iTunes store in India, but selling iPhone there... they must now have some kind of store if only to buy apps!"
My Guess is they want to fist built a tire swing and then a whole park around it sad but true. In my opinion Europe, India etc are not primary markets for Apple anyways.
- superkendall, on 07/15/2008, -2/+1Reason #9 is odd "GPS Does matter"
- LukeBeaumont, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1And they have no more stock here in Australia. Here's to a months wait.
- MilesyMiles, on 07/15/2008, -1/+0You can buy mine.
I'm already over it.
- MilesyMiles, on 07/15/2008, -1/+0You can buy mine.
- batmanz, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2And Digg has told me this four times now. And I never cared in the first place...
- surferjoemaui, on 07/15/2008, -2/+1Where's a good OSX vs. Windows argument? no new news on the iphone. I'm getting board.
- CountBrass, on 07/15/2008, -1/+2OSX won that argument when Vista was released.
- waydee, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Buried as duplicate iphonespam
- Kanaka, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Somewhat deceptive. This figure just means Apple shipped out 1 million phones from its factories to vendors and their Apple stores. It doesnt mean 1 million phones have been activated
- CountBrass, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Firstly: how do you know it's numbers shipped? And secondly, given that every has run out it's fair to say that number shipped ~= number sold.
- Kanaka, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Based on historical facts on how Apple calculates the figures. Also numbers shipped=numbers sold isn't necessarily true. Most of the phones that were sold out were the 16GB versions there were lots of 8GB available which alters overall numbers
Also Apple diverted most units to Apple stores and very few units to carriers. Hence it technically sold out in carrier stores but there were more units sitting on shelves at the Apple stores
- Kanaka, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Based on historical facts on how Apple calculates the figures. Also numbers shipped=numbers sold isn't necessarily true. Most of the phones that were sold out were the 16GB versions there were lots of 8GB available which alters overall numbers
- CountBrass, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Firstly: how do you know it's numbers shipped? And secondly, given that every has run out it's fair to say that number shipped ~= number sold.
- JamJosh, on 07/15/2008, -5/+2You hommies, next time your talkin on your iPhone remember to tell your friends to pick some more ROCKET FUEL MALT LIQUOR.
Cause when you wanna get sick remember, nothing makes yo' feet stank like Rocketfuel Malt Liquor... DAMN! It's crezappy!!!- CountBrass, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Huh?
Either I am too old, not 'merican enough or this guy is a raving loon.
Buried because I think it's the latter.
- CountBrass, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Huh?
- Billions, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Thanks for the mirror to this post, I was mortified when the other 4 Digg submissions' servers went down.
? - Swathe, on 07/15/2008, -3/+420 million suckers.
- timusca, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2(20 million suckers) / 20 = ?
- BulletsforRingo, on 07/15/2008, -0/+4YES, WE ***** KNOW ALREADY!
- CountBrass, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1I didn't you insensitive clod.
- locojones, on 07/15/2008, -4/+2Wow, whoop dee doo. What is that, less than 50,000 per country? Wow, what a smashing success....not.
- CountBrass, on 07/15/2008, -2/+1Buried for being boring.
- naokske, on 07/15/2008, -0/+0expensiiiiiiiiiiive.... :(
- jimic79, on 07/15/2008, -2/+1Anyone who bought this outright when it wasn't time for them to upgrade needs to reevaluate their priorities. Seriously, paying full price for a phone that has the same camera, the same OS as the old phone (post upgrade), a "lighter" (read: cheaper) plastic back..... Stop feeding Jobs' Army.......
It's like if i would pay full price to upgrade my phone to one with a different color case... - arielb86, on 07/15/2008, -2/+1bury me if you wish, but its just a cell phone.....get over it....there's more to life than a fancy phone.
- opmike, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Those of you bitching about the repeat stories are worse than the repeat stories. You sound like the same morons who keep yelling "please seed!!!!" on those sites I get my Linux distros *coughs* from; as if your vociferous please will show people the err of their ways.
- Nayr213, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Trying to sound smart, eh?
It's not working.- opmike, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1I'm not trying to "sound smart." I was giving my opinion on the current issue of iPhone stories and the complaints they seem to be drawing. Let's all just move along; the hype will die down soon enough (though probably not entirely).
- Nayr213, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Trying to sound smart, eh?
- FredFredrickson, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2And Apple's stock is down almost 4% now. Whoopdy ***** doo.
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