“Apple Inc.’s newest iPhone sold out for pre-order at AT&T Inc, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. a day before the device officially goes on sale, according to the carriers’ websites,” Scott Moritz reports for Bloomberg.
“Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless operator, and Sprint, the third-biggest, showed no immediate stock of iPhone 4S 16-gigabyte models for pre-order on their websites. AT&T, the No. 2 carrier, is giving buyers on its site a delivery estimate of three to four weeks, up from one to two days when pre-orders began Oct. 7,” Moritz reports. “Apple, based in Cupertino, California, said this week that it received more than 1 million iPhone pre-orders on the first day, a record.”
Moritz reports, “Mike Abramsky, an RBC Capital Markets analyst in Toronto, estimated that 3 million iPhone 4S units were sold on the first weekend.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!!!
What NO NEW SHAPE?! NO BIGGER SCREEN?!
Yeah when that 4g model comes out in the spring it will make the extra expense all worth it.
just my $0.02
Better keep your $0.02 invested. You won’t be seeing a new iPhone for at least a year.
I for one remain sceptical whether this rate of sales can persist into the year ahead after initial orders are fulfilled. The earliest adopters are the most fanatical but after you slough off this layer is there enough of a groundswell of support for a phone that to all intents and purposes looks exactly the same as the preceding model.
Nobody expects Apple to sell 3 million iPhones every weekend for the next year. Of course the rate of sale will decline.
Then why has Apple maintained the rate of sales with the iPhone 4 even when everyone expected the iPhone 5?
is there enough of a groundswell of support for a phone that to all intents and purposes looks exactly the same as the preceding model.
Because the vastly improved internals don’t matter if it doesn’t have pointless superficial changes to make it *look* different, right?
And remind me, how well was the iPhone 4 selling prior to the iPhone 4S’s release? Oh yeah, it was selling really really well. So there was clearly still a significant “groundswell” of regular, non-fanatical folks who kept buying the iPhone 4.
So what was your point again?
C’mon, Ballmer. You should know that by now. It’s the inside that counts. And the way people are already raving about Siri, I think the demand is just going to grow. And don’t underestimate how much the vastly-improved cameras, IOS 5 and iCloud are going to influence people. Plus, with Blackberry going down the drain (talk about the timing of a disaster!) , I think many BB owners are going to switch.
I personally know of at least three BB people who were sort of sitting on the fence for the longest time – defending their BB in increasingly half-hearted ways in recent months – who have finally decided to ditch their BBs and go with the 4S.
Besides, even if the outside counts, the 4S is not a bad looker now, is it?
Skepticism aside, I won’t be buying mine for about a month. I never buy first off of the line anyway. But the 3GS, even with iOS 5 on it is getting old. I don’t care about the camera, but I do care a great deal about SIRI. That would even make me consider purchasing one even if my contract was not up. So I can see a steady sales run for the 4S over a period of time, because there will be people like me who will wait until the lines die down.
iOS 5 is amazing and Apple will come out with updates and improvements …… iOS 5 will drive sales and Siri, remember, is just Beta Version …. Look for ver. 1.0 in June /July ……
Apple knows software innovation is the key in the mobile world and they have a great platform to build on …..
Well, my iMac looks the same as the several generations that preceded it. It’s a brilliant design. It would be stupid to change it.
Same with iPhone 4 -> 4S. Apple would have been stupid to change the design. Apple is not stupid, so they didn’t. Get over it.
What a disaster!! They should have made the iPhone 5. No one wants a phone with a mild upgrade bump!! NEVER doubt an analyst!
Wow! It doesn’t look like Wall Street has digested this yet.
Wow! 1st qtr numbers are going to be HUGE!
Sorry, lots of people, including me, want that phone.
Apple is predictable, which is a strong point, on their product cycles. Major phone redesigns are about 2 years each.
Anyway I want the camera and Siri and the speed. Not a small bump at all!
Ditto. What so many analysts and others forget is that the iPhone 4S is still a big leap forward for those of us who own a 3GS, let alone the millions of people who still suffer with non-smartphones.
These figures are just plain wrong. It’s clearly a bandwidth rounding error.
Which was the roundwidth banding era?
it’s bigger on the inside
Scott Moritzzzzzzz the Snake now working for Bloomberg? What the hag. Do they teach him to report facts?
I read the article and their view is that sales are so great because of Steve’s death. Yeah that is the way the world works. I know that Oakland Raider tickets are going to go thru the roof now. Could not be because the phone is any good. What, maybe .02% would buy for Steve? Stupid analysts anyway.
Remember folks, it’s not size that counts. It’s how you use it!!
I have to post this, it pretty much says it all:
“Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance. If the unprecedented and phenomenal success of Steve Jobs at Apple proves anything it is that those commentators and tech-bloggers and “experts” who sneered at him for producing sleek, shiny, well-designed products or who denigrated the man because he was not an inventor or originator of technology himself missed the point in such a fantastically stupid way that any employer would surely question the purpose of having such people on their payroll, writing for their magazines or indeed making any decisions on which lives, destinies or fortunes depended.”
Stephen Fry
It’s a great slap in the face to those obsessional “Feature Counters” over on Engadget, who worked out that some Android thing – I forget what it was called – was better than the iPhone. I think it has a pencil-sharpener and could take really massive blurred photos, so it won.
Wow,they really took a year off, eh Leo Laporte????
Fools.