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Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-it-now dept.

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."

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  1. Almost twice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    What they sold in their first year. Amazing.

  2. Sales figures are news now? by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we get this in perspective please?

    How many phones does Samsung and Google sell every time there is a new Android phone?

    1. Re:Sales figures are news now? by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Informative

      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.

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  3. I got 4 of them. by Rockoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:I got 4 of them. by ugen · · Score: 5, Funny

      You need to set your microwave to "fruit" option to charge it.

  4. Re:Android sells one and Half Billion every day by nine-times · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Judge not lest ye be judged.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  6. Re:Apple is like a posh handbag by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    iPhone is a product, android is an industry.

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