“Brian White with Ticonderoga Securities admitted in a note to investors on Friday that trips to various Apple and Verizon stores in Manhattan for Thursday’s launch day confirmed reports that lines were modest, or in some cases nonexistant,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“White said the retail launch was ‘a bit of a yawner’ likely to due to strong pre-orders placed online, allowing customers to stay at work or at home and out of the cold weather,” Hughes reports. “White noted that Apple and Verizon sold out on initial preorders for existing customers in less than 24 hours.”
Hughes reports, “He has estimated that between the initial preorder and general online preorders that began on Wednesday, between 700,000 and a million units may have been sold.”
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