First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million

[JMcEntegart]

That's a lot of iPhones.

First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million : Read more

 

[beta212]

Apple being Apple, this probably includes all the phones sold to the carriers too.

 

[edogawa]

Nothing new here, pass along, just Apples yearly pastoral farming of their stock.

 

[maxiim]

No wonder the world is turning to shit....current issues for todays youngsters are iphone release dates

 

[masmotors]

boring who need sto watch youtube all day

 

[Azn Cracker]

I personally don't have an iphone, but is there really any reason to upgrade from an iphone 5 or a 4s from that matter? Sure its a little faster and has a better camera but what else? The fingerprint scanner is a joke because that can be easily bypassed by lifting the fingerprints off the phone. Also the 5c is just an iphone 5 in colorful plastic. Please try harder apple.

 

[mman74]

This isn't going to last. Most of these people are existing users replacing 4, 4S, 5. They've waited long enough, hence the immediate buy. I would be more impressed when they release next month's figures.

 

[Blessedman]

No one is going to rip on her for butchering the article? I love you Jane (no seriously) but the 5s can't be both phones at the same time!

 

[Blessedman]

No one is going to rip on her for butchering the article? I love you Jane (no seriously) but the 5s can't be both phones at the same time!

 

[Duckhunt]

i saw a guy on the subway licking his iphone5. I think it must be really cool to have ( sarcasm).

 

[kinggremlin]

Apple is one of the smartest companies this planet has ever seen. I have never owned an Apple product, and likely never will. But, the fact that they can sell 9 million units of something that is this expensive and just isn't that interesting or class leading any more with no compelling features to upgrade to in just 3 days is astonishing.

 

[sonofliberty08]

Apple is one of the smartest companies this planet has ever seen. I have never owned an Apple product, and likely never will. But, the fact that they can sell 9 million units of something that is this expensive and just isn't that interesting or class leading any more with no compelling features to upgrade to in just 3 days is astonishing.

Apple was the king of hype and brain washing, Apple was kind of religious rite now......
According to what the iSheep believes, Lord Steve Jobs was not the fresh and blood human beings, he was the extraterrestrial came to earth from the universe, with super human ability or technology, he invented everything on this planet.

 

[lpedraja2002]

I personally don't have an iphone, but is there really any reason to upgrade from an iphone 5 or a 4s from that matter? Sure its a little faster and has a better camera but what else? The fingerprint scanner is a joke because that can be easily bypassed by lifting the fingerprints off the phone. Also the 5c is just an iphone 5 in colorful plastic. Please try harder apple.

If you really want to backup your claim, there are already sites offering lots of rewards to the first hackers who manage to crack the fingerprint scanner on the new iphone. Otherwise, don't assume that because you saw it on mythbusters that its also possible to replicate it.

*EDIT*
Lol, I just read the news, the fingerprint scanner got hacked ala Mythbusters style hahaha.

As for upgrading, I guess some people are stuck with iPhone 4 or other slower android phone and they want to try an Apple product. I for one started with an LG Optimus 7 which I adored but it got the dreaded stuck on boot screen issue and I've been using an iPhone 4 while I wait for the HTC One to lower in price. As for the iPhone it is a great phone, a lot of bias I had against it went away after having to live with it for months. I suggest you do the same, if you haven't tried one already.

 

[echozero]

Didn't Toms report that Iphone fingerprint reader may already be hacked as well?

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-touchid-hack,news-17586.html

 

[Larry Bob]

The only reason they "ran out of stock" (considering they've had sprees like this at every iPhone launch) was because they created an artificial demand to make people want the new iPhone more. If they had enough stock it wouldn't be as "magical" when you finally got one.

Apple logic.

 

[wemakeourfuture]

Numbers that make all the manufacturers jealous.
5S is a great upgrade from 4/4S. Is it ideal screensize, probably not, that's coming with the 6.

But having way faster hardware, 64 bit processor, everything is substantially faster, better camera and flash. There's plenty of reasons to upgrade.

I will be, and so will 2 other of my colleagues (Software Architect and Software Developer [Java]). and other family members will be upgrading.

To all those who think people with iPhones don't know technology, products, don't do research that's complete B.S.

I know many people like myself well versed in computer technologies either from a software or hardware level, CS degrees who simply have a long list of reasons to prefer iPhones over Android phones and we don't really need to justify it to anyone else but we can.

Our marginal utility for an iPhone is higher than a S4 or Note 2/3.

 

[rocker19943]

This device becomes more boring because every 5th has it

 

[khubani]

Why is this phone popular? Because we can swipe our finger across the screen differently?

 

[robochump]

Surprised the iHaters didnt say article writer is paid by Apple...lol. 9M SOLD not shipped people, this isnt Samsung. iP5S is now available to copy

 

[HKILLER]

Apple Consumers=iZOMBIE

 

[house70]

Well, I guess that makes 9 million people that are angry about the borked sensors in iP5S.
I am not surprised this info has not made it's way to TH. They can't let something "minor" like that spoil their iGasm.