“Within six hours, according to Tencent news, one million orders had been taken by the three largest carriers, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Before the official order-taking began Friday, one Chinese website, JingDong, had registered more than 9 million reservations, a kind of pre-pre-order,” P.E.D. reports, “The split as of 8:30 p.m. Beijing time:”
• iPhone 6: 4,542,448
• iPhone 6 Plus: 4,694,853
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “rdiddly” for the heads up.]