“If you had any doubts that Apple would be able to beat the record 1.7 million iPhones sold in three days in June 2010, you can put them to rest,” Phillip Elmer Dewitt reports for Fortune.
“Despite early glitches that slowed down pre-orders, AT&T announced Friday it had taken orders for 200,000 iPhone 4S units in the first 12 hours — ‘the most successful iPhone launch we’ve ever had,'” P.E.D. reports. “iPhone 4 pre-orders last year were 10 times greater than the iPhone 3GS’s, and that was when AT&T was the iPhone’s only U.S. carrier.”
P.E.D. reports, “This year Apple is offering pre-orders to three carriers in the U.S.: AT&T, with 98.6 million wireless customers, Verizon with 106.3 million and Sprint with 52 million. Given the pent-up demand at Verizon and Sprint, it’s not much of a stretch to assume that Verizon also pre-sold at least 200,000 and Sprint, with half the customer base, another 100,000. That’s a total of half a million units in the U.S. alone. And that doesn’t count international pre-sales.”
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