First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million
That's a lot of iPhones.
Apple has announced that its new iPhones have sold almost nine million units in the first weekend of availability. Apple first announced the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C on September 10 and released the phones a week and a half later. Now, three days after the new iPhones launched, the Cupertino-based company is talking numbers.
Apple this morning announced that it had sold nine million iPhones over the weekend, which it's calling a new record. One could argue that this isn't exactly fair, given this is the first year Apple has launched two new iPhone models on the same day, but Apple CEO Tim Cook doesn't see it that way.
"This is our best iPhone launch yet―more than nine million new iPhones sold―a new record for first weekend sales," said Tim Cook. "The demand for the new iPhones has been incredible, and while we’ve sold out of our initial supply of iPhone 5s, stores continue to receive new iPhone shipments regularly. We appreciate everyone’s patience and are working hard to build enough new iPhones for everyone."
Apple also revealed that iOS 7 is now running on 200 million iOS devices. This is apparently the fasted software upgrade in history. Apple did not provide a breakdown of devices running iOS 7, nor did it say how many of the nine million iPhones sold were iPhone 5Cs or iPhone 5Ses.
The iPhone 5S runs on Apple's A6 SoC and features a 4-inch retina display, integrated touch, full sRGB, an 8-megapixel iSight camera, a new Facetime HD camera with improved low-light functionality, dual-band WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, more LTE bands than any other phone, and is available in pink, yellow, green, blue and white. The iPhone 5S packs Apple's new A7 SoC and is the world's first 64-bit phone. It also features a 4-inch retina display, an improved 8-megapixel camera, a front-facing camera for FaceTime, and fingerprint authentication in the form of Touch ID.
The iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C are currently only available in the US, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK. Apple plans to launch the phones in over 100 countries by December of this year.
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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.
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.
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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.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-touchid-hack,news-17586.html
Apple logic.
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.
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.