“Some time in the next week more than 6 million iPhone 3Gs will be in people’s hands around the world. What that means is that the second generation device has outsold the original iPhone just seven weeks after going on sale. They actually may already have done so,” Michael Arrington writes for TechCrunch.
“It took Apple nearly a year to sell 6 million first generation iPhones. A million 3Gs were sold in the first weekend the device was on sale—it took Apple 74 days to sell a million of the first gen iPhones,” Arrington writes.
“According to our sources, Foxconn continues to build iPhones for Apple at the rate of 800,000 units per week, with production ramping up as fast as possible. (Businesweek is hearing similar numbers from its sources—150,000 a day). Apple is on pace to sell more than 40 million of the devices in the next year,” Arrington writes.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Eugenio” for the heads up.]
Yet it still can’t turn off its annoying auto-correction feature without jailbreaking. BOOOOO!!!!
R2, iPhone 3G has better battery life than iPhone. If I turn off 3G, I can outlast the iPhone and get just as consistent a signal.
As for better looks, that’s subjective, so to each his own.
@ bizlaw
Uh Oh is the same lonely drooler that said Jobs was going to jail. Best ignored.
iPhone 3G reception ‘normal,’ say Swedish engineers
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm
The trolls can all STFU now that the truth is out.
A quick # to think about:
6M x $200 = $1.2B
in 7 weeks
License money print
R2: perhaps you didnt know that the iPhone 3G is also able to use EDGE network, whenever there is no 3G? Which by the way is never for me, since I live in Europe! Ha ha ha…
“I sure they may sell 10M iPhone 3Gs next month”
So you’re sure something might happen?
Great logic there!
I’m sure the US might explode tomorrow.
Well, in all fairness, the iPhone was only sold in the States the first year where the 3G iPhone was sold world-wide as soon as it was released. But, yeah, 3G was more what the world wanted, so it would naturally sell like hot-cakes.
@DogGone
The actual “price” of the iPhone is closer to $500 which takes into account the subsidy from ATT. Profits per phone have been estimated to be around $350.
6M x $350 = $2.1B
If Apple sells 45M phones next year, their profits will exceed Microsoft. Reported profits will be spread over 24 months so reported profits will lag.