Jobs: iPhone is winning
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversDid you think Apple didn’t care that its former hardware guru Jon Rubinstein and a bunch of former Apple employees left the company to help Palm create an iPhone-competitor in the Palm Pre? Think again.
On Monday morning Apple fired off a press release that was clearly aimed at Palm, including a quote from CEO Steve Jobs.
The Cupertino, California tech giant reported that in the first three days since launching its third generation iPhone hardware, the iPhone 3G S, the new smartphone has sold over 1million units. The lines may not have been as long as last year, but the pre-sales strategy from Apple and AT&T of allowing customers to order over the Web and then pick up the device from an Apple or AT&T store or have it delivered was a success. Apple and AT&T apparently had plenty of units in stock as they avoided the widespread sell-outs of the last two years, and even doubled the sales expectation of 500,000 units for the opening weekend.
In Apple’s press release Jobs even took a shot across the bow at Palm. He said, “Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning. With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.”
Jobs’ remark was aimed at the report that Palm sold 100,000 units of the Pre in its first weekend and set a new Sprint sales record for the debut of a product.
Certainly, the Palm Pre can still be considered a success and the product is off to a solid start. But, it’s also clear that the iPhone is in a different league. In addition to the iPhone 3G S sales stats, Apple also revealed that downloads of its new iPhone 3.0 software (free to existing iPhone customers) reached six million since the company made it available last Wednesday.
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Comments(8)
now how many existing users dumped their old iphone for the new. i'm guessing a lot. new
users are going to be minimal. just check around and you should be able to pick up a
discarded iphone for almost nothing.
all the numbers listed by apple (not palm) are very small compared to blackberry.
another case of apple pretending they are a contender when all the stats show they are
not. samsung phones are even beating apples sales. apparently, i bet the old
walkie-talkies we had as kids could beat the iphone.
thanks steve, but i'll stick with my pre. it's small round feel is great, the internet
(especially the sprint network in my area) is fast and easy. oh, my unlimited data and
texting bill is low too. skip the expensive iphone for something that does everything it
does for less pain in the wallet.
what did you say??????????
seems like monstakody's name changed... joe the starfighter...
the quality of apple products is just superb and you get what you pay for. to buy a cheap
alternative is just a waste of money.
bough the iphone #gs and was amlost thrown out the window. all those 100 new features in
the 3.0 os was garbage except copy & paste. these new features have already seem on my
old phone from sammy. time to find a s***** to buy my new used misphone.
why upgrade to new iphone? nothing really new except price. excessive additional charges
for old stuff / no way.
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By Morpheus on 22.06.2009 - 23:06