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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?
Do these impressive sales numbers have anything to do with the "announcement" earlier today?
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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.
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We're what, 9 billion people on this Earth and closest part of space and you want us to belive that 1 billion Android devices are sold every day?
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.
In other news Hyundai outsells BMW 4 to 1. To each his own.
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).
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let's hope they don't have any bugs in those phones, or they'll have to replace them all.
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Which idiot voted this nonsense up? Obviously there aren't 1.5 billion android phones sold per day, and Apple shares are not dropping, in fact they have been on an upward trend in the last 6 months.
Android phones now account for 823 phones out of every phone sold. That's progress!
We're what, 9 billion people on this Earth and closest part of space and you want us to belive that 1 billion Android devices are sold every day?
Actually it's more like 7 billion (I think 6.9?) people on Earth, and he's saying that 1.5 billion Android phones are sold every day. I had no idea, but that's pretty impressive.
How do they score on the ratio of iPhones sold to factory-worker suicides?
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Yet, in the same paragraph, you call people lemmings because of their choice of device.
Hypocrit much?
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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
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.
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I am an Android user, but I will say the iPhone isn't beats. It's actually a decent piece of hardware and software. I don't particularaly like iOS and will stick to my Android, but it's also not horrible and a lot of people develop for it. I'm also glad we have both options, plus Windows Mobile too. More options are better for the market and people who write apps for only one OS are idiots.
It's still half of beats though. There are a lot of people who buy eyeProducts because of the marketing. I liked OSX 10.6, but everything since than has been shit. Final Cut X is god awful. There are pros and cons to everything.
iPhone users, by and large, couldn't care less what kind of phone you use. The world needs more options and fewer snobs.
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 ;-)
I wonder how many of those phones went to carriers and counted as 'First day sales'? How many actual _humans_ bought phones?
Since Apple reports sales to end users, approximately 0 and 10,000,000, respectively.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
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.
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.
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THANK GOD!!!
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.
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.
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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).
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how much has been buy by dumb that Wave their iphone trying to charge them ?
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
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2 years old tech in fact.
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The carriers drop support for them a month or two later, so people need to keep buying a new one to make sure they're up to date. ;)
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Given that Android allegedly makes up 78% of the smartphone market, I can see why you feel soooo unique.
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Uhm, a link to a 2-year old iPhone 5 says absolutely NOTHING about the iPhone 6. Care to try again???
Actually it's more like 7 billion (I think 6.9?) people on Earth, and he's saying that 1.5 billion Android phones are sold every day. I had no idea, but that's pretty impressive.
It just shows how quickly they stop supporting OS updates for most of those Android phones.
All of them. Apple always reports actual end-user sales, not channel movement.
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?
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.
Well then, Apple should be applauded. In the context of their extremely reasonable pricing (considering the cutting edge nature of their products compared to those of competitors and the significant costs incurred by manufacturing overseas), it's a testament to their fairness that their (indirect) staff are not driven past the point at which manufacturing rate would be negatively impacted by their staff's reluctance to continue living.
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How do they score on the ratio of iPhones sold to factory-worker suicides?
The number of suicides at Foxconn, which has about 1.2 million employees, was (2) and (1) in the last two years, according to Wikipedia. The USA has about 45,000 suicides per year; at that rate Foxconn should have had about 180 per year.
Compared to the number of people dying from leukaemia at Samsung factories, they are doing quite well.
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.
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.
tupe666 repeated myth No #1234: Shipped never means sold in any circumstances. Lalalalala.
Even if we believe all of your points, you do realize that iPhone 6s are in short supply everywhere right now? So by logic, shipped == sold right now. In a few quarters, shipped may not be sold. However in your points, you fail to realize or acknowledge Apple has retail stores. They can know exactly what is being sold in their own stores. Apple also has an online presence. It can know what has been sold online through Apple.com.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
There's also a slight difference between what's legal in a press release and what's legal in SEC filings. In SEC filings, Apple would have reduce its revenue slightly to account for phones that are sold but returned, or phones that are sold but Apple never gets payment. Things like phones4U in the UK going out of business.
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.
In 2010, a group of eighteen attempted suicide together with fourteen successes. Since then they've taken measures to contractually oblige employees to continue living and installed anti-suicide nets to catch (pun intended) those who aren't swayed by contractual terms.
These conditions make your quoted figures somewhat artificial.
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Lemmings.
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