“Buried inside its own financial results on Thursday, T-Mobile said that it had sold 1 million of the devices in the U.S. since the G1’s launch in October 2008. Reaching 1 million units in six months isn’t terrible, but in comparison to the iPhone, it doesn’t stack up that well,” Dan Moren reports for Macworld.
“Looking at numbers from Apple’s U.S. partner, AT&T, we see that the wireless provider activated 3.5 million iPhones in the last two quarters. That’s probably a little beneath the number of total phones sold in the U.S.—4 million probably isn’t an unreasonable figure. That gives the iPhone roughly four times as many sales in the same period,” Moren reports.
“How well did the iPhone do in its first six months? Pretty well actually: Apple announced its millionth iPhone sold on September 10, 2007, just 74 days after the device’s launch. In the first two quarters of the original iPhone’s availability, Apple sold… around 3 million [in the] U.S.,” Moren reports. “The G1, then, has not seen the same rapid success as the iPhone.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
