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Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days
An anonymous reader writes Apple has announced that it sold over 10 million new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models, just three days after the launch on September 19. From the article: "Chief Executive Tim Cook said the company could have sold even more iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models if supplies had been available. Analysts had estimated first-weekend sales of up to 10 million iPhones, after Apple booked record pre-orders of 4 million on Sept. 12, the day pre-orders opened."
What they sold in their first year. Amazing.
Can we get this in perspective please?
How many phones does Samsung and Google sell every time there is a new Android phone?
But RMS thinks it's Nazism, so therefore Apple is doomed.
Do these impressive sales numbers have anything to do with the "announcement" earlier today?
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A billion is simply not as much as it used to be. Android sell 1 and half Billion devices daily last time I checked, although this was before the massive growth in places like India. Apples Share continues to drop.
I purchased one, but its microwave charger was broken, so I got another but that one was broken too. Each time when the microwave charger broke, even normal charging no longer worked.
"His name was James Damore."
....something something... walled garden...something something... stroke my neckbeard.
Chief Executive Tim Cook said the company could have sold even more iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models if supplies had been available.
No shit. You could have sold a heap more if you didn't have this bullshit "jump on our web site after 12:01am tonight to reserve your iPhone for first thing tomorrow morning." There's no such thing as Sunday deliveries in our city, so you already had the stock out the back. Why wouldn't you just sell it to me right now? wtf?
Most of the new iPhones seem to be going to existing iPhone users. Trading in old phones after the contract expires brings in some new money for Apple without increasing market share.
There's a sucker born every minute.
-- Misattributed to P.T. Barnum
3 days
3x24=72 hours
72x60=4320 minutes
10,000,000/4320=2314.814814814815 suckers/minute
M2PTB was a pessimist.
By this mechanic, there are 38.58024691358025 suckers/second ( or about 3.858024691358025 suckers/decisecond).
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
let's hope they don't have any bugs in those phones, or they'll have to replace them all.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
To be honest, this smacks of lemmings. It really does. The fact that people will stand in line for a thing amazes me. I dislike how people are judged by what mobile device they own, the trainers they wear, the car they drive. It's all amazing... People actually feel less than successful or less hip if they have a mobile that's not the latest.
Android phones now account for 823 phones out of every phone sold. That's progress!
I would say that most of the people I know use iPhones. I have never heard any one of those iPhone users judging an Android phone user as an inferior person, less successful, or not as hip. I have, however, consistently hear all the usual judgements from Android users against iPhones users: lemmings, idiots with too much money, Steve Jobs worshippers, etc.
In other news Hyundai outsells BMW 4 to 1. To each his own.
I am not sure if Apple is Like BMW with small memory, and storage, and screen resolution and battery..without features like waterproofing...maybe a smart car?
But one thing is for certain is that whatever make Apple is Android is Ferrari, Mercedes Benz, Ford Toyota, Royals Royce etc etc
They have to do with the fact they are laughing at all the I-sheep .
It's like the Madden football series of games except with phones.
How do they score on the ratio of iPhones sold to factory-worker suicides?
Not so many since they put in nets, and live in packed dorms... They only are made to feel like killing themselves. Now Riots and beating up the security guards, that is a different story.
where do you think the money came from that they are using to buy stock back?
iPhone is a product, android is an industry.
Know they are both products, just on the iPhone...iOS...the OS is a Unique Selling Point, and it used to be a pretty good one. As opposed to Android sold at Zero cost to Manufactures of Phones, for collecting the revenue from Advertising and the revenue from the Play store.
You can only argue which has the better model(Short term profits vs Long term Market share), I personally think Androids is better long term.
Spin somewhere else
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iPhone users, by and large, couldn't care less what kind of phone you use. The world needs more options and fewer snobs.
where do you think the money came from that they are using to buy stock back?
As I said it came from bonds, bought against money that is taxable nowhere for fear it might be used to pay for hospitals and schools. Mr Cook should have gone to jail.
I wonder how many of those phones went to carriers and counted as 'First day sales'? How many actual _humans_ bought phones?
None of this means anything.
It's amazing the iPhone sells, it's old technology outfitted with pointless style...
What exactly is old technology? Take a moment, think about your answer ;-)
Apple uses the actually sold numbers, Android used the hidden in the supply chain number.
Apple NEVER has used sold it has always stated that it counts them as sold because if only ships what it know it will sell. Always has check its the investment part of its site. It is actually more hilarious as Apple has to *cough* adjust its iPad figures after what was excused as changes in supply chain. We know see it is as Apple simply failing to sell iPads.
Tell Me another
If "Android" sells 10M phones per day, that's 3.6 billion phone a year. Do you have some sort of actual data to back up that claim?
Apple always reports actual sales
No...no...nope from a random 10K..."Product is considered delivered to the customer once it has been shipped and title and risk of loss have been transferred. For most of the Company’s product sales, these criteria are met at the time the product is shipped. For online sales to individuals, for some sales to education customers in the U.S., and for certain other sales, the Company defers recognition of revenue until the customer receives the product because the Company retains a portion of the risk of loss on these sales during transit."
So measure like every other company.
iPhone users, by and large, couldn't care less what kind of phone you use. The world needs more options and fewer snobs.
l notice ugen got modded up in this topic with "In other news Hyundai outsells BMW 4 to 1. To each his own." nothing at all snobby in that comments...no...not at all. I have my Porche phone ;)
In the context of the quote "birth" isn't talking about childbirth. It's talking about the idea of inception as a classification (in this case, a "sucker").
Simple English 101 here.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
... and it is disgusting, but let's not just poke Apple for it. Apple is investing in renewables and workers rights in their supply chain, which is more than the rest of the big boys.
I am an Android user
Me too, and I think that the fact that I have a 5.5" Phone in my pocked that cost a third the price of the iPhone, and in every way is better. Screams otherwise. I like my music Bass heavy and headphones to look good...like my phone, hell I could use the money I save by not buying an Apple.
And they were not able to launch in their biggest market. They did last year.
They have to do with the fact they are laughing at all the I-sheep .
Enjoy throwing away your android phone once a new one comes out with an incremental improvement because you are not going to have anyone wanting to buy your used Android. iPhones, however, retain a great deal of resale value.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
64 bit ARM was last year's tech :)
Oh, wait... Poor Android fans...
(Yes, there's nothing magical about doubling the CPU's data paths, but doing so also gives you a convenient excuse to also throw out all of the garbage in the 32bit ISA; or at least, not require it on 64 bit applications).
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
how much has been buy by dumb that Wave their iphone trying to charge them ?
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
It's jewelry bro.
Bling.
I'm an iPhone user and I won't switch to any plastic phone, for instance. And that's why- it will look stupid and cheap.
http://versus.com/en/apple-iph...
2 years old tech in fact.
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
And this is why I could never buy an Android product again. I could never associate myself with a product that people who act like this buy.
All the hardware you had, maybe, but it completely lacked cohesive user experience a fragmented OS like Android will NEVER have.
Given that Android allegedly makes up 78% of the smartphone market, I can see why you feel soooo unique.
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
Good job buying a phone with a super high pixel density sold to you only because it's higher than the iPhone, but that your eyes cannot perceive without a magnifying glass or unless you have superhuman vision. I guess if that lets you feel validated.
Uhm, a link to a 2-year old iPhone 5 says absolutely NOTHING about the iPhone 6. Care to try again???
Exactly. Android cultist on forums are the most obnoxious, annoying, childish and stupidest people I ever met. Put me off Android forever.
(Not the same AC)
I'm starting to think that the "iPhone bragger" is a mythical beast, like unicorns, and that if they ever existed, died out pretty quickly.
And you are so unique with your iPhone. Like, nobody has one of those!
Most Android phone sales would also be going to owners of existing Android phones, so WYP?
Why exactly should I be throwing away my phone when it still outperforms your current release?
"There's a sucker born every minute."
True, but the only suckers are those who pay attention to this sort of marketing stunt.
Xiaomi sold 100,000 of their Redmi Notes phones in the first 34 seconds they were on the market. If you extrapolate that out, they should have sold more in the first hour they were on sale than Apple has with this phone... http://www.doi-toshin.com/xiao...
Like Xiaomi, Apple stage-manages their releases to create exactly the sort of hype Slashdot is participating in here. The iPhone 6x may be a good device, and may recover ground from Android in the long term, but you'll learn nothing about the phone or its mid to long term sales potential from this sort of marketing trickery.
They have to do with the fact they are laughing at all the I-sheep .
I-Sheep? Android has 87% of the market! If you want to be part of the flock you go with Android just like you do with Windows on your PC.
It's a phone for fuck sake! If your choice of phone affects your personality and you judge other people on their choice of phone then frankly you're complete social retard. If you one day wake up and realize that your choice of phone has pretty much no bearing on anything whatsoever you might actually end up making some friends and having a social life.
Thankfully it doesn't run an unoptimised operating system so it doesn't need the latest and greatest hardware to run smoothly. Funnily enough the same is true of Windows phones. Android is a one-size-fits-all operating system, runs on anything but is not optimised for anything in particular. iOS and Windows run on a narrow subset of hardware but are well optimised for that subset.
The result is that OEMs throw hardware at Android's performance problems rather than dedicated engineering time to improving the operating system and tailoring it to better utilise the hardware in a more efficient way. So the fact that the handsets don't even run the same software should be a dead giveaway that the hardware spec-sheet type of dick-measuring competition is pointless so why do some (certainly not all) Android advocates persist with it?
At a guess I'd say he's referring to the iPhone 5C which is still on sale and is essentially the technology of the iPhone 5. Which I can only see as a glowing endorsement for the efficiency of iOS in how it manages to still run so smoothly even on older hardware.
Just because they don't care doesn't make it right. It means they're remaining ignorant of bigger issues resulting from the lack of control over the stuff you purchase. The issue is about making them care - apathy is not a worthwhile goal particularly when it comes to personal freedom.
Good job buying a 6+ with the identical super high pixel density as last year's Galaxy Note 3.
Maybe, just maybe the real reason for that particular resolution is because it can display full HD content without scaling.
Yes, yes it is.
Whaaaa. Little Apple zealot is getting upset. Boo hoo.
More than Microsoft sold in it's whole history!
At a guess I'd say he's referring to the iPhone 5C which is still on sale and is essentially the technology of the iPhone 5.
Perhaps. But given the context and his exact words, he was obviously implying that the iPhone 6 is the old technology he was referring to. Then when challenged, he just posted a link to an iPhone 5, without clarification. So, yes, the 5C is 2-year old tech, and yes, Murdoch5 is dishonest ;-)
Which I can only see as a glowing endorsement for the efficiency of iOS in how it manages to still run so smoothly even on older hardware.
Agreed.
"Good" old MS.
"if supplies had been available" so stupid people are selling to stupid people. What else is new? Apple needs to go back to 8th grade economics and learn supply and demand graphs then put a big line on it where their supply runs out and recalculate sales. Plus, there's over a dozen superior android models than Apple's outdated attempt at making a phone so dumb people aren't just in sales, they're in line too.
English being my second language, I went to my dictionary with the hopes of learning something from your comment. Unfortunately, my dictionary only lists two entries for birth the verb:
1. intr. To have birth, be born. rare.
2. trans. To give birth to; to give rise to. Chiefly dial. and U.S. dial.
Do you mean give rise to?
Also, I don't find using words metaphorically to be "simple" English 101, or your 101 classes are rather advanced.
crApple fanboi faggots always prove that they are the dumbest people in the world.
Too dumb to understand that CONSISTENTLY selling more year after year means NEW CUSTOMERS.
The concept of basic math is beyond the maximum understanding of a crApple fanboi faggot.
Like the U2 album, "everyone got it', but not everyone picked it up...
Lemmings.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
Why do people camp outside the stores for hours to get their hands on this stuff? Could they not wait for a few days/weeks? Its just a phone right? It does more or less the same thing as the previous one. How impatient and materialistic one has to be to ...?