“According to a report in the LA Times that has since been echoed by CNN Money and Reuters, 525,000 iPhones were sold on the first weekend. As we’ve noted previously, iPhone first weekend sales now represent the largest consumer electronics product launch in history as measured by dollar value. As of today, 59 of the 162 Apple Stores do not have iPhones available, having sold out over the weekend,” Carl Howe reports for SeekingAlpha.
Some quick impressions from the limited time I had with the phone:
• No manual is no problem
• The iPhone processor is FAST
• The iPhone experience is incredibly addictive
“This is an experience sale akin to driving a BMW; people who take a test drive will want to buy the device. And the overall look of the device just screams taste and design. I fully expect the iPhone to be one of the first electronic devices to be placed in the Museum of Modern Art. It’s that beautiful,” Howe writes.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JadisOne” for the heads up.]
woah now, 525,000? no wonder AT’n’T messed up. thats a lot of iphones. a lot. in a weekend? thats a lot…
typical apple. yeah and thats why we all have macs. =)
Apple computers are already in the ‘Pinakotheek des Modernes’ in Munich, Germany.
Oops, Pinakothek der Moderne it is:
http://www.muenchen.citysam.de/pinakothek-der-moderne.htm
Please don’t compare the iPhone experience to a BMW. The iDrive interface in no way is similar to the iPhone or any other Apple product for that matter.
Microsoft is going to stop payments to Dvorak. His FUD campaign failed.
huh? There are already a bunch of Apple products in the MOMA industrial design exhibit.
Robo,
They’re also in MoMa, as is the iPod…and the Dyson vacuum, but that’s another story.
I cannot wait for iPhone technology to trickle down to the Mac side of the house.
There are plenty of Apple devices in the Museum of Modern Art. The cube and the iPod are two I can name right off the top of my head and I believe that the orginal Macintosh as well as all three versions of the iMac is in there too. I also think the RAZR and Startac are exhibits. I would really like to visit the MoMA. Hmm…I live in NYC and I get out of work early. Maybe I will take a gander.
I second Mac n’ Cheese’s opinion re BMW.
iDrive has to be the unfriendliest menu system ever foisted on the motoring public, making many minor adjustments difficult – even dangerous – while on the move.
It’s a real technoid let’s-do-it-because-we-can “solution” to a non-problem.
A great pity Apple wasn’t involved!
It’s free to get into MoMA on Friday nights, 4 -8 pm.
GO!
I was at the Charlotte Apple Store last night and they were completely sold out of 8 GB models and had about six 4 GB models on hand. I was glad I got mine yesterday morning!
I’m fully expecting Apple’s press releases to add the line “Apple ignited the mobile phone revolution…”
On the other hand, 103 stores DO have phones. According to at least one magazine, Forbes, that is not necessarily a good sign for sales going forward, after all of the faithful have made their purchases.
We’ll see. I love Apple, here’s hoping it does, but at this point I would not want to bet my life, or money, on the iPhone kicking all other cells off the island.
The West Des Moines (Iowa) store has plenty of both. Come on by and pick one up.
The Apple stores in Washington sold all their iPhoness. Microsoft bought most of them.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133634-pg,1/article.html
Re: jay
Forbes isn’t right – the faithful have definitely not all purchased phones – I’m as hardcore Mac as the next guy on this web site. I’m just waiting until my phone dies. There is no question where I will be buying my (or my wife’s) next mobile from.
The iphone will go the distance.
Unless my recall is amiss, iDrive is built on Windows CE, and everything I’ve heard about it is awful. I’ve read several reports of tricked out 7-series Beemers (very expensive) whose systems crashed, trapping the occupants inside. I”m assuming the writer based his comparison to BMW on the integrity of design, thrill of putting it through its paces, etc.
Alas the MoMA is closed today…oh well.
I bet that most of the stores that still have iPhones only have the 4gb version
Fortune — and the rest of the world is waiting, hardcore or not.
Just wait until us Brits and Euros get our chance.
Roll on the day — I’ve just bought a cheapo Nokia phone to last out the gap before iP makes it over here.
M@c,
right. I’m waiting for the 100 GB, touch-screen iPod in the same (or similar) design. It’ll be here before Christmas, I hope.
DJ:
Aren’t most European phones sold unlocked? If so, then get ready for a new sales model. If so, and as a result, Apple sells the iPhone locked in the US and unlocked in Europe, then a lot of US customers are going to be pissed.
Actually, that’s one of my main complaints. The only purpose of a “locked” phone is to allow the service provider to recoup its money on free or subsidized phones. The IPhone is not subsidized, and there is NO reason at all to sell it locked.
If I have any of this wrong, please let me know.
@ MICROSOFT
I was looking for Ballmer in line, but I didn’t see him. He must have sent one of his kids to get his iPhone for him.
As a side note – You’ve seen those trucks that just have a big billboard on the back? Yeah, well one of those trucks was cruising the parking lot at the U-Village store while we waited in line.
It had a giant Verizon ad on it. We laughed.
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Raymond,
I think iDrive is the red-headed stepchild of Microsoft Automotive paired with Windows CE </shudder>
There was a vicious rumour doing the rounds in the not-too-distant past that said that the next release of iDrive might be OS X powered as per iPhone. So there’s a possibility that the new [2008/9] 7-series (currently designated F01-03 [std, long-wheelbase and Protection]) and 2009’s F04 (the new CLS-killing 8 Series) may all be Apple-powered.