iPhone Sales Hit 1 Million in 3 Days!

July 14th, 2008

Last weekend, the Apple network experienced massive gridlock across the board, as iPhone 3g owners tried to activate their wireless service while many of the original iPhone users tried to upgrade to the new 2.0 OS.  It was poor planning to say the least, as the releases of the new OS and the new iPhone within a week of each other basically invited mass scale problems.  Because of the network, Apple customers were taking much longer to purchase iPhones at the stores, and current iPhone users found that their phones completely stopped working when they tried to update the system. 

But in spite of all this mess, in their first weekend of sales, Apple was able to get over 1 million people worldwide out the door with brand new iPhone 3Gs.  Even though high sales were to be expected, this 1 million phone mark was nearly double what analysts had predicted, and will completely dismantle the economic model that had predicted Apple’s total iPhone sales for the year at just over 4 million.  Boy I wish I had invested a week ago!  Apple definitely has a winner here.  You can get the full run down by watching this video.

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