“Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone arrived in stores Friday in the U.S. and a half-dozen countries, as the company hoped to cement its position as the world’s leading smartphone maker,” Geoffrey A. Fowler, Anton Troianovski, Ian Sherr and Juro Osawa report for The Wall Street Journal.
“As has become the custom for Apple product launches, throngs of eager customers lined up in front of Apple’s retail stores to be among the first to get their hands on the new phone, dubbed the iPhone 4S,” Fowler, Troianovski, Sherr and Osawa report. “The handsets go on sale at 8 a.m. local time in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, France, Germany and Japan.”
Fowler, Troianovski, Sherr and Osawa report, “Apple has already said first-day preorders for the iPhone 4S, which began a week ago, topped one million units, beating the company’s own expectation and sales for earlier models. Smartphones are not only one of the fastest-growing parts of the technology sector, but have since 2007 also become Apple’s single-largest product category.”
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