“Sales of the new iPhone are believed to have topped 100,000 in just over TWO DAYS,” Charles Rae reports for The Sun. “Analysts say Apple could sell a whopping 500,000 of the £269 gizmos by Christmas.”
“A spokeswoman for Carphone Warehouse said: ‘We are really pleased.’ …An O2 spokesman said: ‘We don’t have official figures yet, but sales are more than exceeding our expectations,'” Rae reports.
Full article here.
Nicholas Christian reports for Scotland on Sunday, “Gadget fever showed no sign of abating across the UK yesterday as customers continued to queue to snap up the new Apple iPhone [on Saturday].”
“At the height of the frenzy on Friday night, iPhones were flying off the shelves at the rate of 4.2 per second,” Christian reports.
“A spokesman for O2… said yesterday: ‘We don’t have any official collated figures yet, but what we can say is that the sales are more than exceeding our expectations, and our expectations were pretty high,” Christian reports.
Full article here.
Stephen Hayward reports for The Sunday Mirror, “As many as 70,000 of the £269 must-have gadgets were expected to be sold over the weekend as Apple, O2 and Carphone warehouse stores stayed open longer to cope with the demand.”
“More than 400,000 are expected to be sold in Britain in the run up to Christmas and 10million worldwide in 2008,” Hayward reports.
“An O2 spokesman said: ‘Demand has exceeded our expectations and we believe it will be the fastest selling mobile ever. We’ve hundreds of thousands of devices to sell and we are extremely happy with how things have gone,'” Hayward reports.
Full article here.
According to The Register’s Andrew Orlowski, Apple iPhone’s first night in the UK was a “flop,” presumably by combining a few scattered reports of lightly-attended locations (we had those in the U.S., too, Andrew; at AT&T stores the first night), seasoning the concoction with speculation, adding a pinch of unfounded rumor – hold the facts! – then baking the whole thing up in a nice yellow font and serving it in a garbage can.
Full article, Think Before You Click™, here.
The Register, seemingly in an effort to obliterate any suggestion of objectivity on their part, also provides a handy little online service to replace the name “iPhone” with any other term of your choosing throughout The Register’s pages, although – even more ridiculously (if that’s possible) – it only works on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mr Skills” for the heads up.]
Its = belongin to it
It’s = it is.
@macromancer As has already been pointed out in this thread, the name is Steves, not Steve’s. Please try to get it right.
And while we are on the subject of names, I know what a “macro” is, but what on earth is a “mancer”?
…is a funny thing.
Particularly since all of the Brits that I’ve worked with over the past decade absolutely NEVER rush judgement on anything.
it would seem that the Register and Andrew Orlowski – – as well many of its posters – – are much more like the impulsive and “faddy” Americans than they would ever be able to admit!
Thanks, but I’ll be taking the British approach to this question: be patient and wait until the reliable data comes in whenever you can.
-hh
..and yet, this American has somehow resisted the urge to buy an iPhone. (Mostly because I can’t afford the service plan and b/c it doesn’t have voice recording.)
Anyhow, the Register is a known snarky publication. MDN missed the boat on this one. I’ve seen lovefest Apple articles and Apple is Satan type articles there, too. The Reg is only of interest to the people who spend their lives reading about IT instead of doing something with their lives.
@Your Smugly
‘belongin’ ?
@MCCFR
At that rate appluk will sell 41,472,000 in the next year alone!
Soon they will be like McDonalds! I’ve got dibs on the nose and those really cool socks! Steve is gonna look smokin’ in that wig and the big floppy shoes!
“3G was designed for voice,” said Philip Solis, an analyst with ABI Research. “Right now a single 3G cell site barely supports a half dozen people transmitting data at the same time. WiMax offers much better capacity, which will be essential when people start using more data-intensive applications over wireless.”
The 3G argument will kick in at some point. This is my “preemptive strike”…..
“Good old MDN, you never let us down when it comes to misrepresenting perceived “anti Apple” material. I have never heard of the Register”
and thank you for pointing this out early so that i know that you have nothing important to say and i can ignore you, it is this kind of courtesy that is often lacking today.
HOLD ON!
A lesson in propaganda and marketing is about to begin.
“Sales of the new iPhone are believed to have topped 100,000 in just over TWO DAYS,” Charles Rae reports for The Sun. “
A reporter with no facts BELIEVES 100,000 iPhones sold in “TWO DAYS”? Not very creditable. After all a reporter can be mislead by marketers too.
Lets look at some more…
“A spokeswoman for Carphone Warehouse said: ‘We are really pleased.’ …An O2 spokesman said: ‘We don’t have official figures yet, but sales are more than exceeding our expectations,'” Rae reports.
Read the line “no official sales figures yet” which means ‘we are making stuff up now’.
Note “sales are more than exceeding our expectations” sure if you didn’t expect to sell many, a few thousand more would be amazing right?
Well we have NO FACTS, no present sales figures to make a fact. How about “as of last night about 8pm we sold 50,000 iPhones” instead of this BS?
They have computers and the internet, they track every sale. They KNOW EXACTLY how many are being sold and when. They just don’t want to say.
Lets look at another:
“At the height of the frenzy on Friday night, iPhones were flying off the shelves at the rate of 4.2 per second,” Christian reports.
Yes but for ten minutes that certainly wouldn’t be “100,000 iPhones”
Who is spreading the propaganda?
The facts are this:
1: The UK is 3G, they don’t like slow Edge.
2: A bank there just failed and it had to be bailed out, a run on that bank also occurred. So not too many are motivated to buying a expensive phone and contract right now as the economy might not be doing so well.
3: Edge isn’t everywhere, so people need a phone that does work everywhere.
4: People are locked into contracts.
5: People in general just want a cheap slim phone with long battery life in case they lose it.
6: There quite isn’t as many people in the UK as there are in the US. So there will be less buyers.
Now the attendance at the UK Apple Stores has not been fantastic as it has been made to appear. Because it was raining, because it was cold.
So they are not telling us what the current sales figures are because it’s not that good. The volume is just not there. They are waiting until enough are sold and they can put a “spin” on the release figures. Especially since it has to compare with the larger proportion sold in US with larger population and more spending capital naturally.
But “4.2 per second” sure sounds good doesn’t it?
That concludes your lesson in propoganda.
Remember, there are NO AMERICAN TANKS IN BAGDAD.
(because we redrew the city lines as they advanced, hehe!)
How on god’s green earth can anyone charge near £900.00 for technology that’s out of date?
It’s not even 3G you can’t replace the battery without sending it back to apple the voice connection is truly dreadful and it doesn’t support most web plug-ins such as Java.
Apple have failed yet again in giving consumers what they want and in doing so have left the door wide open to its comparators to steal the show. If they had just held off and addressed all of the issues they would have created a killer device that would have netted them far more than we are witnessing
Their unbridle lust in the pursuit of profit at the cost of creativity and “getting it right first time” has rendered this for what it is “old technology wrapped up in hype”
Worse, restrictive use of the O2 network the 18 month contract at £35.00 starting fee per month along with £269.00 for the Iphone is nothing more short of a scam.
The trade in hacked iphones is as a direct result of such a restrictive policy. Apple like Microsoft are imposing more and more control over you the consumer telling you what you can and cannot do with the hardware and software you pay good money for the very least we should expect is something that works and not to be ripped off in the process.
Anyone with any sort of common sense should hold off until Apple address the 3G issue otherwise you will end up with another ten mouths to go on your contract and a phone that’s as useless as it is now plus a bill for the new iphone2
@MCCFR
Ed Colligan- CEO of beleaguered Palm- actually did get it right. PC guys didn’t just walk in and figure this out. Apple (read: Mac guys) did. Not trying to be contrary…
What the hell do you expect from Andrew Orlowski?
MDN is more biased than any newspaper I’ve read.
For instance: We were constantly barraged with “Apple stocks reach an all time high [again]” stories for weeks. But barely a mention that the stock has fallen almost $30 in the last week.
Let’s not get carried away with hype. 30,000 iphones in Great Britain and 15,000 iphones in Germany would be great. Both the Mirror and the Sun are capable of hyping iphone sales, and then trashing aapl when the real numbers come out. Check out the Apple Finance board for accurate estimates. Most retail locations are closed on Sunday in Europe.
@ Bagdad Bob
Please cite your sources for each one of these ‘facts’:
1: The UK is 3G, they don’t like slow Edge.
2: A bank there just failed and it had to be bailed out, a run on that bank also occurred. So not too many are motivated to buying a expensive phone and contract right now as the economy might not be doing so well.
3: Edge isn’t everywhere, so people need a phone that does work everywhere.
4: People are locked into contracts.
5: People in general just want a cheap slim phone with long battery life in case they lose it.
6: There quite isn’t as many people in the UK as there are in the US. So there will be less buyers.
I’m waiting.
Sorry, that was me (autofill!@#%#)
@ Chris M
NEWS FLASH! EVERYONE!!! THE TECH MARKET WENT DOWN LAST WEEK!!!
Thank you so much for filling us in!
Brit,
You may be right with all that stuff but, damn, I’m enjoying my iPhone!
How on god’s green earth can anyone charge near £900.00 for technology that’s out of date?
Ask the Vista team.
It’s not even 3G you can’t replace the battery without sending it back to apple the voice connection is truly dreadful and it doesn’t support most web plug-ins such as Java.
Ah, I see you’ve already been talking to Microsoft. However, it’s much easier to cover your tracks if you don’t use all their talking points in the same sentence.
Apple have failed yet again in giving consumers what they want and in doing so have left the door wide open to its comparators to steal the show.
And you can see the competitors just lining up with their superior technology. Why, in the 10 months since the iPhone was announced, let’s take a look at all the phones that have come out to steal the show…
(I can’t think of any. little help?)
If they had just held off and addressed all of the issues they would have created a killer device that would have netted them far more than we are witnessing
How would they have know what the issues were before you started blathering about them?
Their unbridle lust in the pursuit of profit at the cost of creativity and “getting it right first time” has rendered this for what it is “old technology wrapped up in hype”
That was just silly. And you know it.
Worse, restrictive use of the O2 network the 18 month contract at £35.00 starting fee per month along with £269.00 for the Iphone is nothing more short of a scam.
A ‘scam’ is telling you one thing and selling you another. That’s a scam, Brit. This is just you not liking the deal.
The trade in hacked iphones is as a direct result of such a restrictive policy. Apple like Microsoft are imposing more and more control over you the consumer telling you what you can and cannot do with the hardware and software you pay good money for the very least we should expect is something that works and not to be ripped off in the process.
You can do anything you want with an iPhone. There is a possibility that it won’t work correctly after you do it, but that’s the idea when they say “unsupported features are not supported”. If I turn my car into a space ship, Ford isn’t going to replace the engine for me.
Anyone with any sort of common sense should hold off until Apple address the 3G issue otherwise you will end up with another ten mouths to go on your contract and a phone that’s as useless as it is now plus a bill for the new iphone2
And here is the giveaway. The old, tired trick of astroturfers to get your confidence, tell you how awful a product is, then let you know that perfection is JUST around the corner. If Apple got it so wrong the first time, why is Brit so convinced that it will be right next time? Apple are such screw-ups, I would think the thing would just burst into flames at any moment. How could the next version be better? Brit thinks so. So you better wait.
This message brought to you by the non-Apple wireless industry. Watch for it again and again.
@ChrissyOne
Your welcome. I figured Apples stock price was more related to “Mac News” than a hit piece like “Zucker’s NBC Places Distant 4th in U.S. Network Ratings” (http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/15368/)
@ Chris M
I was kidding. AAPL making new highs is news. AAPL dropping because the whole market went down is not news. I think you want CNBC.COM
@ChrissyOne
Apples stock is down about 16% over the last week though. The market is only down about 4% over the same period.
@ChrissyOne
FYI
appl (the whole market) went up due to events having nothing to do with appl (the whole market) and (both) are going down due to events having nothing to do with appl (the whole market).
@ doc
So, the ‘whole market’ is up 80% YTD? Really?
next…
@ChrissyOne
All I said is that things went up due to issues having nothing to do with fundamentals (related to either the whole market or to appl), not that each went up in exact proportion to the other. I think apple is doing great work. I like the products and use them myself (I have three laptops, a tower, and two ipods). I tell people to buy them when asked about the products. If you want to know more about what I mean regarding larger market forces read the following articles.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3fCFxLIgT2s&refer=worldwide
http://www.nysun.com/article/66268
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6997765.stm