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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.
Not sure about other products, but here is the recent article about Samsung Galaxy S5.
Samsung sold 5 million Galaxy 5S phones in the entire month of May (which was evidently the first full month of sales)
The article says that it sold less in its first month than Apple sold iPhones 5S in the same month.
http://bgr.com/2014/07/16/galaxy-s5-vs-iphone-5s-sales-may/
I know there is always a "many Android phones vs one Apple" argument. But numbers are what they are.
How many phones does Samsung and Google sell every time there is a new Android phone?
They never release actual sales figures like Apple does. They only speak in vague hand-wavy terms about the great success of each release. In fact, Apple is actually the only manufacturer of phones or tablets who releases actual sales figures. (Samsung has occasionally released "shipped" numbers sometime between stuffing the channel and starting to take the returns...)
To top that off, Apple always reports actual sales, whereas Samsung reports shipment to retailers, which may not necessarily count as sales - at least not in the sense of sales directly into customer hands.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
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.
Except for:
- the iPhone 6 is, well the S3 is so old its not even in the comparative benchmarks published today by anandtech.... http://www.anandtech.com/show/..., but since the iPhone 6, 6+ and 5s are all faster than the Galaxy S5 we can assume that they are also faster than the S3
- the iPhone doesn't run Andoid ... nuff said
- the iPhone is not build by Sammy.. more nuff said :-)
Apple tends to release a new phone roughly once a year. In your list you left out the 3GS (June 2009), iPhone 4S (October 2011), 5C and 5S (September 2013).
The actual releases look like this: