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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."
Right but, are we talking about units sold or units shipped. Apple consistently uses units sold to my knowledge, and then after that it's a crapshoot without additional information.
http://www.imgur.com/Pp7xC.jpeg
We're talking about the first 24 hours here, US only and directly from consumers. Galaxy S3's 9 million pre-orders was over a longer period, worldwide and pre-orders by carriers. You're comparing apples and lemons.
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By my calculations it's actually 1389 (rounded up) every minute.
We're talking about the first 24 hours here, US only and directly from consumers. Galaxy S3's 9 million pre-orders was over a longer period, worldwide and pre-orders by carriers. You're comparing apples and lemons.
Galaxy S3 did not have 9 million preorders. Samsung confirmed it took just under 2 months to sell 10 million.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57477475-94/samsung-galaxy-s3-hits-10-million-sales-mark-early/
Right but, this article was written by the same guy who yesterday wrote this:
"Well, the only thing even more predictable than response to the iPhone 5 was the fact that preorders would sell out quickly."
Stop letting this asswipe use slashdot to drive hits on his stories.
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.
They sell three models at any given time. It was the 3GS, 4, and 4S and now it's the 4, 4S, and 5. I just ordered a "free" 4 for my wife to replace her 3GS.
Probably because 31% of North Americans are likely to purchase the iPhone 5.
http://www.marketnews.ca/content/index/page?pid=11889
Most of Android marketshare comes from prepaid and free-after-subsidy low end phones with no margin. This is why every Android manufacturer combined times 4 doesn't equal only Apple's profit.
Isn't this pretty much a repeat of the PC wars all over again?
Some people will, because they always want the latest and the best. But there are a lot of people like me (with an iPhone 4) or my little sister (who has a 3GS) who are eligible for the full subsidy and for whom it's a major upgrade. For me it's much faster, includes Siri, and a much better camera. For my little sister it's vastly faster, includes a retina display, Siri, a vastly better camera, it's thinner, etc.
Not everyone ordering is coming off a 4S. I'd imagine most are coming from the 4 or below.
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You're comparing apples and lemons.
Actually, I believe he was comparing apples and samsungs.
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I couldn't live in a world where Apple dominates everything.
Well, you're not very good at thinking different than are you?
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Comments above point out that the Galaxy S3 had 9 million preorders vs the iPhone 5's 2 million. If I apply your logic to those numbers, am I to believe that Android 'fanboys' are a much worse flock? Or maybe people are just buying products that they want and we can stop associating one brand or the other with our egos.
Ja. "Phones shipped" is a crap metric because a lot of those phones sold just sit on store shelves and don't get sold. "Phones sold" tell you how many are actually being bought an used by consumers.
Ex., the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Before the recent court case, Samsung was reporting Galaxy Tab *shipment in the millions* (or was it tens of millions? I forget). Then the court forced them to report actual sales and it turned out that Samsung had only sold 1.4 million tablets total over 18 months. Apple sold ~30 million iPads over the same period.
If a company says, "we shipped X" but won't report "we sold X," it's probably because most of their gear is gathering dust down at the Best Buy.
Probably no one would upgrade from the 4S, even though it does have twice as much RAM, a CPU that's twice as fast, a GPU that's twice as fast, a bigger screen, ...
But upgrades from the 4 or the 3GS... Almost certainly tons of people.
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
I like it how fanbois point out Apple's huge margin on iPhone as something to be proud of. "Hey, check it out how they overpriced it and still we buy it in bunches! Ain't it amazing?"
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.
Exactly.
Apple 5 will be $199? I think not.
$199 might be the subsidised price a phone company will sell you a branded, locked down version as long as you sign up for a 2 year plan. Actually for that deal I would even call $199 overpriced.
Now try and just buy the phone without all of that. It'll be like $600.
Actually I just checked.
Unlocked iPhone 5 Price: $649 (16GB), $749 (32GB) and $849 (64GB).
With a two-year contract, iphone 5 Price: $199 (16GB), $299 (32GB) and $399 (64GB).
$849 for a phone? hell yeah its overpriced.
when you have 2 kids things like this matter. not rooting and tooting and staying up all night getting excited...
That is how you got the 2 kids if I am not mistaken.
Yes, unless the user was for example a gamer, 3D artist or video editor..
Most iPhone games are like console games though, they're designed to work with a very limited set of hardware, and as such should already be running fast enough. Considering not everyone has a 4S, they're probably designed to work well even on an iPhone 4 at least.
I did recently buy a new Android tablet simply for the better screen and faster processor - but that was to go from something like 1200x800 to 1920x1200, which is quite a significant difference for watching videos and reading. Funnily enough, my old tablet still feels nicer to use because my new one doesn't have Jelly Bean and its "Project Butter" yet. Despite the hardware being faster, the UI actually feels less responsive!
which is totally what she said
Actually for me, they're a computer manufacturer selling well-built, well-integrated Unix desktops and laptops, and phones and tablets that are largely zero-hassle to operate. Don't imagine that your logic applies to all, or even most, cases.
I think the sorriest traits I see in my fellow humans are:
1) their obsession with what other people do with the money they earn;
2) their lack of appreciation for tools which save time, which is often more valuable to the owner of the tool than any extra cost incurred in purchasing the tool itself;
But you know, that's just me.
Wow. Someone who gets it.
Platform isn't about some magical choice between closed and open source. Its not some walled garden vs free for all marketplaces.
People buy a phone that works for them. Once they buy into a platform, once you start factoring in software (apps) and the cost of that, people are reluctant to change.
iOS and Andriod both have their strengths and weaknesses. Blind rabid fanatacism towards either is stupid. Oooh, my device had 20 billion preorders in 60 days, yours only has 1 billion in 3 days, look how awesome mine is, blah blah blah.
Fuck you. You're all a bunch of hypocritical assholes with blind devotion to your platform of choice. Blah blah fucking blah.
I USE my smartphone. I don't give a fuck what OS it runs.
Its the fucking sports world of the geeks. The Cupertino iPhonies against the Mountain View Androdgynies. Going to the game, wearing your jersey & screaming in orgasmic delight every time your team scores just makes you a corporate stooge.
It doesn't matter who wins...just that they keep playing. At least then consumers win.
No kidding. If you look at his profile: https://slashdot.org/~TheBoat/, you'll note that it has no posts, just submissions, and they're all to the articles on the same site.
He's not a member of the Slashdot community, he's a parasite looking to make money from it.
Because it's an indicator of how likely support is going to continue in the future. All these companies selling crappy Android based phones for next to no profit are never going to support them. Apple will provided support and updates, etc.
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The hateboi mantra of "overpriced" seems like a pretty weak way to argue against something. Nice things cost money, and usually in a non-linear way. That's how the world is.
Same price as an unlocked Galaxy SIII.
It's weird - it's like really small electronic devices with miniature computers inside and a large touch screen are expensive to make or something.
Who knew?!
Or maybe Samsung is copying the iPhone's price? *ducks*
I don't get this kind of hatred for the iPhone. It's as unreasoning as the fanboys' slavish gushing praise. The iPhone is a well made, well designed piece of electronic gear. It functions superbly. Is it overpriced? Maybe. But then any object is worth only what you can get people to pay for it. I think maybe for some it's the status, for some the sleek design and for others the slick OS that functions superbly. Regardless it keeps on succeeding time after time despite all the ranting from so many apple haters. I've seen a lot of Droid users opt for an iPhone after playing with a 4S and I've seen a lot of Droid users give it a pass 'cause they are happy with what they've got. It's great to have the choice though, really.
Honestly, I don't mind the hardware not being "top notch" on my crusty ol' iPhone 4 - having to develop web sites for both Android (various devices from phones to tablets to phablets) and iOS, I can say that almost every Android device is terrible. Not for a lack of good specs or power, but because the OS as a whole is flimsy, unpredictable (I have phones that are fairly new and only have 2.3.1 wtf; the tablet is running HONEY COMB; another phone is running 4.0), and usually seems to at least respond with a noticeable lag. Just rotating the display when in the browser seems to cause a jump, a wait, and finally the catch up to the display being set - it's cute that they do the little "whoa there I'm being rotated lol it tickles!" animation, but in the end I just want the damn thing to be landscape and quickly.
Android seems like a great OS, but by-and-large it seems the best Android ROMs are those that aren't officially distributed by phone manufacturers, where the community has time and again improved stability and performance in the kernel that would be awesome to see on the general consumer side. What good are 5,000,000 cores if your OS experience is bogged down by "well, it works" mentality to drivers and "ooooohhh shiny" on the UI side?
Apple tends to win out here when the hardware on the phone is tightly woven to the internals of the OS - they can balance shiny and functional. After two years, my 4 is still kicking, still performing great, and all on crap specs by today's standards. I find it more responsive than my bosses new HTC whatevermajig with ICS.
The iPhone is a well made, well designed piece of electronic gear. It functions superbly. Is it overpriced?
Yes, yes, it is overpriced, since the vast majority of Android phones in the $200 with contract price range are also well-made, well-designed pieces of electronic gear, yet offer more bang for the buck.
Until the iPhone 5, pretty much every Android "smartphone" had a bigger screen, most had close to or as many pixels on that screen, all had better cameras, almost all had more storage for the same price (and all could be expanded cheaply if necessary). In addition, for the normal usage pattern of phone, some Internet browsing/video streaming, music, social networking/staying in contact/texting (including taking and sharing pictures), games, and downloading/installing apps, both Android and iOS are pretty damn easy to use. For some edge cases, one or the other is easier, but this isn't most people.