“Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster released a report Sunday night estimating that Apple sold about 500,000 [iPhone] units,” Tom Krazit blogs for CNET.
“Despite low supply at AT&T stores and activation issues, it appears that the iPhone era at Apple got off to a good start. Piper Jaffray said Apple had iPhones available in each one of its stores on Saturday, and in 84 percent of its stores Sunday,” Krazit reports.
Piper surveyed 253 people iPhone buyers in San Francisco, New York and Minneapolis and found that 95% purchased the 8GB iPhone and about half were new customers for AT&T, according to the report.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dion” for the heads up.]
@mark:
…especially with the recent acquisition.
@ DLMeyer, “It’s still too expensive for me.”
No, you just don’t earn enough. Big difference.
Can anyone get the iphone availability page to work – I’ve been trying after 9pm and before opening time and it still won’t display red or green dots !”!
Remember that Apple announced recently that they are moving to a “subscription” model for the revenue on both the iPhone and Apple TV, which means that sales revenue for these devices will be spread out and recorded over the next two YEARS. So if Apple sold $300 million worth of iPhones on Friday and Saturday (June 29 and 30), that would in effect count for $12.5 million that “month” and each of the next 23 months.
I wanted the 8GB, but ended up with a 4GB. Four in the hand worth eight in the bush?
Here’s some sad FUD: People are going to be killed, mugged and raped for their iPhones. Just as happened with iPods.
Not likely to happen to the competitors’ “smart” phones which aren’t worth stealing.
Horrid hopes it won’t happen, but, based on past experience….
Why would someone rape you for your iPhone?
thieff: give me your iphone or I will rape you.
woman: go ahead and rape me because I will not give you my iphone.
thief then rapes woman, takes iphone from her, then leaves.
woman: damn. wish I would have just given him my iphone.
Gosh, I’m so surprised! And to think “Crabapple” had an inside tip they sold 3,000,000 from an AT&T salesgirl.
MDN word: LAY as in: I guess her figures were about as inflated as his pecker must have been.