Apple sold one million iPhone 4S's in one day. Not bad for such a disappointing failure
The iPhone 4S, roundly dismissed as a disappointment by many tech pundits and writers, has shifted one million units in just a day. It looks like the pundits have no idea what real people want.
The first hint of demand came when Apple’s entire site crashed after the iPhone 4S announcement event last Tuesday. Then when Apple, along with its cellphone carrier partners, opened their virtual doors for pre-orders before the weekend, the payment servers were brought to their knees under high demand.
Apple says that this is the fastest selling first day for any Apple product, ever, beating the previous record holder, the iPhone 4, which sold 600,000 units on its first day.
The iPhone 4 went on to blow past that number, selling 1.7 million units in the first weekend of actual sales (not just pre-orders). Who knows how many will be sold when the iPhone 4S ships this Friday?
It seems that actual, paying customers are a little more insightful than whining, jaded tech writers. Whilst these professionals sat complaining about the lack of a “5″ in the new iPhone’s name, and the fact that Apple had decided to keep the great-looking industrial design of the iPhone 4, the general public saw the great new camera, a Star Trek-like talking assistant and a much faster computer, and then took out their wallets.
iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours [Apple]
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