“Verizon’s record sales of the Apple iPhone may have exceeded half a million phones on the first day,” Scott Mortiz reports for TheStreet.
“After breaking its previous phone sales record in the first two hours of pre-orders, Verizon continued to take orders for 15 more hours until 8:10 p.m. ET, wrote J.P. Morgan analyst Phil Cusick in a note Monday,” Mortiz reports. “Based on the pace of sales, Cusick estimated that more than 500,000 Verizon iPhones were sold on day one.”
Mortiz reports, “On Friday, Verizon said [the first two hours of] sales of the Verizon iPhone crushed its previous one-day sales record. Cusick wrote that that record was 100,000 Motorola Droids, a Google Android-powered phone that first sold on Nov. 6, 2009.”
Full article here.
I thought they sold over a million?
Different article/analyst I guess.
Either way, sold more than android.
First post from my Verizon iPhone
I read in multiple places that it was over one million in the first two hours. Seemed high to me, but not impossible.
Now this guy is claiming 500k in 17 hours?
I wonder if we’ll ever know what reality is.
100000/2 *17 = 850000
considering that the first 2 hours were late at night, I’d expect an increasing rate after those 2 hours, so my guess is 1.0 million.
Still, this may have been Scott Moron’s best writing yet.
@Shadowself – “I wonder if we’ll ever know what reality is.”
So did Plato, Socrates, Kant, Hume, Descartes…
It is 1984 all over again. This time Android – the “open” platform meant to destroy all other non-Google “open” platforms – is the ubiquitous, dominating commodity Personal Contact OS that threatens to turn every smartphone into the same robot, until Apple comes along and throws the hammer at it.
@apple core
I thought they were out the 10th?
“When reality and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy disagree, it is usually reality that is wrong.”
— Douglas Adams
@Backlash
Some of those who ordered on the 3rd are already receiving their units. Engadget has a nice piece about it.
Is Scott Mortiz related to that Apple-hater, Scott Moritz?
Who cares. They sold a boatload beating everyone else. Android given for free to every low pos assembler still couldn’t beat the iPhone. MS and their POS couldn’t best the iPhone. lol
@acid:
Exactly! Just the way that Apple destroyed IBM and Microsoft after the MAc came out (original 1984 commercial) and took away all their market share, right?
500,000 looks like a low ball number to me. The AT&T preorders were 600,000 iPhone 4’s. Granted that was when the iPhone 4 was brand new but given the relative size of the Verizon customer base and the number of frustrated Android users tearing their hair out jumping at the chance to switch I’d say 1,000,000 units would be closer to reality.
Besides Apple will already know how to manage manufacturing and inventory having run through the same sequence on the launch of the original iPhone 4.
Well I bought two of them and FedEx just Delivered them..yeh!!
Moritz is wrong every time, all the time, every single time. So the real number is either much higher or much lower. I’m guessing higher.
@shadowself
One million is imposible the att iphone 4 sold 1.6 milliin in a weekend and that was beating all previous records. So in one day one million only in pre-orders are not possible.
I hope you out there who are getting Verizon iPhones will report back in on how well they’re working, especially those who had AT&T and can compare before and after. I’m really curious as I think MANY are. I’m stuck for another year and a half with AT&T but after that all bets are off!
@Peter blood
Good luck getting honest “reviews”
The “reports” you ask for are from those that spent the money to dump AT&T and go verizon.
You’ll get reviews that say “with AT&T I couldn’t even make a call, but now with verizon I can!!!!”
Sorry, that’s the reports people were claiming before the iPhone was released for verizon, that won’t change.
Personally I’m glad verizon gets the iPhone, now if only sprint and t mobile will get it soon… We can rid the world of android.
I received my new Verizon iPhone this morning! At long last, my life is complete! Wish I could leave work early and go hook it up to my Mac at home to get it set up…
@ Krioni,
Market share is nice, if you are Google or Microsoft.
These same estimates were posted by TechzTalk on Friday. I think Phil just copied them from that website. Now days analysts do that a lot.
http://techztalk.com/techwebsite/02-05-11-verizon-iphone-4-pre-orders-end-in-less-than-18-hours-with-record-sales