“Apple has sold more than 4m of its new iPhone 4S smartphones in just three days since its launch, with handsets snapped up at a speed that is likely to set the record for the world’s fastest selling consumer electronics gadget,” Juliette Garside and Charles Arthur report for The Guardian.
“The previous record was set by the iPad 2, which sold at least 156,000 units per day during its first 80 days, outstripping Microsoft’s Kinect gaming system – at 100,000 per day in its first 60 days,” Garside and Arthur report. “The 4S, which went on sale on Friday, sold more than 1m units per day on its opening weekend. ‘We eagerly await an official announcement from Apple on sales figures,’ said Damian Field, a spokesman for the Guinness World Records. ‘If the 4S exceeds 156k per day sell-through rate, and this can be independently verified, the 4S will take the record.'”
Garside and Arthur report, “Apple said that it already has 25 million customers using the new version of its mobile operating system, iOS 5, despite launching the software only last Wednesday. Ignoring iPhone 4S buyers, who would have it pre-installed, that would mean that 21 million people upgraded their phones or iPads in the past five days. Apple also said that 20 million people have signed up for its iCloud service, which provides wireless synchronisation of photos, music, apps and other data.”
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MacDailyNews Take: In related news, Apple’s license to print money has now been upgraded from Ridiculous to Ludicrous. Tomorrow around 4:30pm Eastern, Apple begins laying down a trail of plaid.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “krquet” for the heads up.]
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