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Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours
TheBoat writes "Apple announced on Monday that iPhone 5 preorders topped 2 million units in the smartphone's first 24 hours of pre-sale availability. That figure doubles Apple's first-day iPhone 4S sales last year, making the iPhone 5 Apple's fastest-selling smartphone ever. 'iPhone 5 pre-orders have shattered the previous record held by iPhone 4S and the customer response to iPhone 5 has been phenomenal,' Apple marketing boss Philip Schiller said."
Not sure why they're bragging about it, they're way behind the Galaxy S3 on this particular metric.
Not a troll, just interesting to see the enormous difference in preorder sales between two companies that are constantly at each others' throats.
http://www.imgur.com/Pp7xC.jpeg
By my calculations it's actually 1389 (rounded up) every minute.
Let's keep some perspective here. They only sell one model at a time. All of the other vendors sell multiple models at the same time. The implication is that this is somehow the leading phone ecosystem or some such thing. In reality Apple doesn't even sell as many smart phones as Samsung alone, never mind all of the other vendors.
Android has 68% of the worldwide market compared to 17% for apple, which slipped from 19% a year before. Look I'm all for personal choice, I think apple has some pretty neat things that they do, but can we check the hype machine in Realityville please?
Apple does not release preorder numbers directly from carriers, and the iPhone 5 is launching on more carriers than any other iPhone version.
Let's stop putting money into these closed systems.
Only open systems can help reduce e-waste (just look at Linux, which can actually breathe new life into an old i386).
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
You'd think that people would wait a few days for the iPhone 5 to hit the market, get thoroughly tested/reviewed by various internet sites, build some word-of-mouth (is it genuinely good?). But not, millions of people go "I want, I want, I want" for a product they've never seen or touched in person. ------- Thank god for Android. I couldn't live in a world where Apple dominates everything. --------
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
Number of phones Nokia shipped in 2011: 417 million Just sayin'...
They are all thinking different together
Actually 22% of Android users, 38% of Blackberry users, and 32% of users with dumbphones are expected to buy the iPhone 5.
There is much less cannibalism here than you lead on.
http://cdn1.techbargains.com/static/images/iphonepredictions/iPhone-infographic_noFooter.png
So you didn't buy the iPhone either?
400 million sold and counting actually.
Shipped and sold are very different animals. Unfortunately, since I wish Nokia would bounce back - I use and like their phones.
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ALL those people that pre-ordered the samsung devices 'Sight unseen' were ok though... right?
People who pre-order anything are idiots... people who buy tickets in advance for a movie are stupid too right? They are sheep blindly following some silly trailer and thinking they might enjoy a movie. People who pre-order video games, music albums... dvds... all sheep. Right?
I hate when people use the term 'sheeple'... I am fully in charge of my technological wants and desires... I have several android devices, but I really enjoy my apple devices. I have the resources to upgrade when they come out with something new and I do. How does this make me a sheep? I'm not blindly purchasing some mythical happy box because someone said so... if I didn't want it, I wouldn't buy it. Simple as that.
Yeah, if you're going to base purchases on how workers get treated, you'll never buy anyone's products, Samsung included.
http://news.yahoo.com/samsung-accused-worker-abuse-eight-more-factories-215557712.html
- "Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem"
Then Samsung must be really dishonest by your logic, since it took a lawsuit for them to reveal their "devices sold" numbers, which were a lot lower than the "devices shipped" number they had been touting. And what difference does it make if iPhones are new or returning customers? Even if they sold their old iPhone to get cash for a 5, someone was still buying that phone from them. Either way, total # of iOS users increases.
- "Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem"
So I'm not trying to incite a flame war, but I'm honestly curious to see who is coming from what in the pre-order figures. By which I mean, how many are current iphone users looking to have their latest and greatest, who's switching from one ecosystem to another, how many are first time smartphone buyer, etc.
I've always wondered how these "millions of pre-orders" figures broke down.
My blood hurts...
I would still be baffled by people who would buy a cell phone without reading reviews first.
Somebody has to be first or else there are no reviews to read. But the real reason people are willing to buy early in this case is that Apple has a reasonably strong track record of releasing good products and this is a mostly evolutionary upgrade to a well understood product. Could it have a showstopper problem? Possibly - but the odds are that it will be fine and most of the likely problems . It's a risk of course but a calculated one. If you prefer to wait there is no harm in doing so. There are lots of products (including Apple's) where I won't buy the first edition. I wait for later versions where the odds of a serious problem are reduced.
Plus if it really turns out to be a problem you always have the option of switching phones. Might be expensive but you don't have to keep using it if you really don't want to. Anyone who can afford an iPhone probably can afford to replace it if they absolutely had to.
Really Potsy....
There was just a survey done that was published a couple weeks ago and recarried on CNN that said 53% of android users were switching phones, the majority of them that were switching to iPhones, and another very significant portion of current android users who want an iPhone but bought the droid only because it was cheaper -- not better.
2 Mil sounds about right. Serious fanboys and girls will always have to get the newest. They cant help it.
Jack of all trades,master of none
But popularity doesn't coincide with quality. Take Windows for example. Or Java. Popular, but they all suck ass.
No, actually, the endgame is *profit,* and Apple is succeeding at that in stellar fashion. Market share doesn't mean dick if you can't make a profit off of it, because it's not *sustainable* if you can't.
You need to give them your name bro!
Koyaanisqatsi. Hopi for "life out of balance," a word that is only known to many because of a particular movie of the same name. It's not that technology drives our lives out of balance; far from it. It is when technology supercedes everything else. Serial Experiments: Lain. Ghosts in the shell. Living in the circuitry. A holy silicon wafer.
So many posts in this thread use the excuse, "We will be buying a 2-year plan for a phone we have to have anyway, might as well get this one," or "A phone is something you use everyday anyway, might as well be a good one," when these statements blind users to the fact that a phone isn't always necessary. I must be the only person reading this thread without a smart phone. Am I saying, "Look at me, I don't need it?" It's not that I don't need it; I choose to live without it. Am I dysfunctional for not wanting a phone? Probably. Yet our relationship with technology has blurred the line between natural being and artificial machines.
Communication is an integral part of the human condition and required for emotional links to our family and friends. Yet, comments and phones like these remind me of technological pornography: an addiction designed to rub you all the right ways. These phones remind me of substance abuse. It is good to have a phone, of course it is... but there must be a limit between use and abuse. There is now a generation that has never lived without smart phones, who have never lived without the Internet, a generation of people dependent on electrons pushed through never-ending wires, eternal radio transmissions, an endless vista of pure silicon and gleaming metals. The amount of information overload in our society is staggering, and this double-edged sword will continue to whet and sharpen... but when will it actually sever and separate the truth from fiction?
A book called Brave New World postulated that in the future there will be so much information that the powers that be will be able to control the masses through things they like, not things they fear. The amount of data that is processed through our heads has reached a point where we have difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality, what is trivial from what is important, what is true from what is false. Objects bubble up in the maelstrom into the awareness of the public consciousness, then quickly sink and fade into obscurity: Ruby Ridge and Waco are the first things that come to mind. Things happen and then they vanish, only to be mentioned as a blurb in the history books. There was once a time when people remembered. Now we happily drown in a sea of solipsism, engrossed to the point of dissociation.
Okay, I'm done. No, I'm not on anything. I wish I was, then I could forget...
Yes, I'm crazy. I must be the only one.
and yeah, soon I won't be able to resist the lure of smart phone, either. But not yet.
Pavlov.
How is it overpriced when it costs the same as the other phones?
The overpriced myth is possibly the most hilarious anti-Apple meme because it is so provably untrue. The meme is also indefensible when compared to the price spectrum on lots of other products. Plenty of people don't buy the cheapest car they can find; and in fact they routinely pay 30-100% more than the cheapest for largely aesthetic reasons, and those people are not subject to the same kind reductive criticism which Slashdotters heap on iPhone users for paying the same or maybe 10-20% more for the phone they want.
You kinda make yourself look like an idiot for implying that Linux is somehow more UNIX than an actual UNIX system. OSX can do anything that any other UNIX system can do.
Apple is on their way to being the first every trillion dollar company. This isn't a loss, Apple is a huge winner.
The problem is that people buy features, not specifications. Everything you cite there is a numeric specification. But when it comes down to usefulness, there's nothing important those android phones can do that an older iPhone can't. And the iPhone looks and feels like a higher quality phone. In citing the specs, you're asking users to choose a phone that doesn't feel as fast or as high quality, based on your assurances that it's actually better because of a few numbers. In reality, you're the one who is being duped. All they had to do was throw some big numbers at you and you were sold. You didn't actually consider the merits of the individual devices.
In reality, the specs have little to do with how useful a phone will actually be. Things like how responsive the interface is and what kind of visual feedback it can provide are much more important to the user experience. The S3 is a good example of a phone that was designed to have specifications that exceed the iPhone. It's screen is much larger, but that means the phone itself is too big for most women (and some men) to use comfortably in one hand. It has more ram and more, faster processors, but the UI doesn't seem any faster or more responsive.
Even though they killed the Meego line I'm looking at getting an N9, because I've realised that I don't really use any apps that aren't available on all phone OS's and Nokia's are still the best phones for making actual phone calls.
Maybe if Jolla produces a popular phone Nokia may revisit the decision to produce only Win phones and they can return to topping smart phone sales.
A game has objectives and is competitive, anything else is just play
you do realize that the iPhone 4 and 4s sold over 100 million each right? and the iPhone 5 is slated to break 230 mil
There was just a survey done that was published a couple weeks ago and recarried on CNN that said 53% of android users were switching phones, the majority of them that were switching to iPhones, and another very significant portion of current android users who want an iPhone but bought the droid only because it was cheaper -- not better.
That would make sense if the cost of a top end Android phone/contract (here in the UK most people get a "free" or cheap phone with a high monthly charge rather than buying the phone outright) wasn't similar to an iPhone.
However, as it is, then it doesn't make sense.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I wish I could frame it better--but in a nutshell you are just a fucking moron.
Aesthetics have value to humans and always have, in every field for all of history--if that makes all humans stupid then you just fundamentally have a problem with humanity.
Your way of calculating the iPhone premium for its nonexpandable flash memory is transparently dumb. Let me recalculate for you:
"Lets see, the iPhone has a higher screen resolution than your wife's phone. The cost to retrofit your wife's phone with an iPhone-quality display is about a $100K, therefore your wife's phone is overpriced by about $100K."
Why can't you just accept that some people like a different phone than you? is that too much complexity for your tiny little brain to handle?