Tuesday, 15 July 2008

iPhone 3G, Every One Wants It

The new 3G-model iPhone took everyone by a storm soon after it launched last weekend. Apple saw a worldwide sales of over one million iPhones, a record it took the original iPhone over two months to achieve.

One by one on Friday, not individual AT&T stores, but entire cities, reported selling out of the device. By mid-morning, Chicago AT&T stores reported total liquidation. By noon, all of New York City's had sold out. Hours-long lines reportedly continued at Apple Stores throughout the weekend in the 21 countries in which it has premiered.

During that same time, owners of both the new and old iPhone were able to download 10 million apps from the newly launched App Store on iTunes, despite major problems with the iPhone 2.0 software update that disabled many phones temporarily on Friday. AT&T, Apple’s only carrier in the United States, blamed problems in synchronizing the phone with Apple’s iTunes online music and software store, saying they were probably caused by too many people trying to gain access to iTunes at the same time.

The original iPhone, introduced in late June 2007 in the United States only, sold about 270,000 units in its first two days. Sales topped one million by early September. That brings the total number of iPhones sold since the launch of the first generation phone to more than 7 million. Apple's goal of reaching 10 million iPhones sold by the end of the year seems well within reach.