CUPERTINO, CA - It took only three days for Apple to sell one million iPhone 3GS devices according to a press release issued by the company on Monday. The sales figures being reported do not yet include the newly-priced $99 8GB iPhone 3G, once tallied into the totals this past weekend could represent Apple's most successful product launch to date. News that's certain to deal a crippling blow to the Palm Pre hacks.
Analysts like Piper Jaffray, estimated roughly 500,000 iPhone 3GS handsets would be sold over the first weekend, but the results were far more robust than anyone had originally anticipated.
“Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.”
When Apple launched their original iPhone on June 29, 2007 it took 74 days which amounts to approximately two and a half months, for the company to sell its first million. Apple's second coming with iPhone 3G saw a million devices fly off the shelves in the first three days of release.
Just two days prior to the launch of iPhone 3GS, Apple unveiled their highly anticipated OS 3.0 software update which proved to be a massive hit among iPhone faithful, bringing in six million downloads in the first five days. One hour before the software's official release on June 17th, iPhone "OS 3" made Twitter's list of trending topics with almost 30,000 new tweets updated on the subject by users in less than thrity minutes.
A revealing survey conducted by Piper Jaffray at Apple retail stores in New York and Minnesota this past weekend, showed that 12% of consumers purchasing an iPhone 3GS indicated they were replacing a BlackBerry handset. The number was based on 256 early 3GS adopters. I'm guessing that the exodus of CrackBerry users will only continue in the months ahead as iPhone gains even more momentum through the evangelism of those newly converted iPhone 3GS users.
"The iPhone is one beautiful sexy beast," said Elam Nikserof, who lined up to purchase his third iPhone last Friday at Apple's 5th Avenue Flagship store, "I'm onto my forth steady girlfriend since the summer of 2007, I only wish those upgrades were as hot as my iPhone. These chicks come and go, but iPhone is my forever girl."
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