Apple has announced that pre-orders for the iPhone 4S have topped one-million units in the first 24 yours of availability. Despite journalists and analysts being disappointed in the product, the iPhone is more popular than ever. In America, this is the first time an iPhone has launched on three carriers at the same time — AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon. Here’s a clip from the press release:
Apple today announced pre-orders of its iPhone 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4.
“We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been the most for any new product that Apple has ever launched and we are thrilled that customers love iPhone 4S as much as we do.:
Even though I expressed disappointment with the product launch, I had no doubt that the iPhone 4S would be immensely popular. It looks like a fantastic product and being on thee major American carriers is huge. Internet writers, particularly tech bloggers, are giving the product more heat than they ought to. The GPU on this thing is killer and the camera looks brilliant. Siri takes voice control, something that has been available on Google Android for years, to a game-changing level. The iPhone 4S is a great product backed by great marketing. The sales figures reflect that.
What do you think of Apple’s pre-order numbers with the iPhone 4S? Are they what you expected? Or did they exceed your expectations?
FIRST!!!
…sorry, I just wanted to know what that feels like.
Kind of an overrated experience, hey?
Yeah, I think my total IQ just went down about 10 points. I fele sew stoopid naow.
I think it was bound to happen with them adding Verizon and sprint. I certainly expected the pre-orders to come in but not to crash the apple or carriers websites like they did.