You hear of this new
iPhone 3G thing? Doing pretty well, or so we hear. Apple says they sold one million of 'em this weekend worldwide, compared to the 74 days it took them to hit one million with the last generation. So far the little bugger has invaded 21 countries, with France next on its hit list on July 17. Oh, and that
App Store isn't doing too bad for itself either, with 10 million downloads so far to iPhone 3Gs, updated iPhones and iPod touches. No breakdown yet on paid apps versus free apps, but Jared is free, and that's all that matters. However, the saddest fact in all of this is that bunches of
suckers enthusiastic fans are queued up at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store
this morning in New York (pictured), showing either a level of devotion to this little plastic bauble, or of complete disregard for their jobs, which is altogether frightening.
[Thanks,
Laura]
Read - One million iPhone 3Gs sold
Read - 10 million App Store downloads
posted Jul 14th 2008 9:34AM
First! and foremost, another IPhone blog?
What the hell is wrong with you!
In the end your winging isnt going to do anything so tell me why do you bother?
neither is your spelling.
Don't hate the Apple. It's coming for you too just embrace it!
Instead of replying here, everyone please take a video of yourself bashing me with your IPhone and then send it to me via MMA.
Oh wait...
typo: I meant MMS.
typo: I meant MMS.
Wasn't Engadget one of the suckers-I mean "enthusiastic fans" waiting in line like the rest of them too?
Well, I guess the term "the masses are asses" never sounded more fitting than right now.
dude, take your meds.
Triple-fail by MMisterio. Funniest fail i've read all day!
I really like how you crossed out suckers...
Gees I wonder if those people where all iFired?
They couldn't be, they could never afford the AT&T iPhone contracts.
"..or of complete disregard for their jobs, which is altogether frightening."
Frightening is right. I have no problem waiting until after 5 to pick *anything* up. Unless it's lunch..
You forgot, these are all the people I was talking about who obviously can't afford this but will be looking for a US govt handout in about a year when they cant pay their rent/mortgage/gas/electric bill because they don't know how to budget.
If only you had the tiniest clue, Dave. Studies have shown iPhone buyers have a considerably higher than average income (and standard of living and lifespan.) Your Apple hatred probably stems from your inability to afford Apple hardware or ability to open your mind to even try it. Go read a Microsoft board somewhere.
@JKT
I buy my phones based on what they can do for me in regards to my job, which is why I own a TyTn II, not an iPhone that cant even copy/paste.
I guess you forgot to mention that research that Apple owners also have a sense of superiority over others, which is laughable since their products dont dominate anything other than an idiot-proof interface.
@ JKT I also forgot to mention...
Higher than average income compared to what? The average US household? because if that is the case it's not saying much.
Damn...that's allot of hardware sold.
And I thought this thing was being overblown.
Tell me about it.
While I personally don't see the attraction (no cut & paste, no replacable battery, only 2mp camera that doesn't take video blah blah blah), I also don't see why there're so many that are so keen to kick it down even before we see any results. All the doubters are saying "pfffffft Nokia sells that in a minute!" or "no one will use it to text cuz it has no keypad!", fine, but if Nokia or Blackberry comes out and sells an mp3 player and hit a 1 million unit sales figure, there's no doubt that they're doing something really good.
All I'm saying is, credit should be where credit is due. Why all such negativity and fanboy wars? Apple, you guys did great with the iPhone, well done.
Pet peeve time: You meant "a lot". Allot is a word, but it already means something else. You can't just change what words mean whenever you feel like it, it doesn't work that way.
Allot:
1. to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
2. to appropriate for a special purpose: to allot money for a park.
3. to assign as a portion; set apart; dedicate.
@Gus
Agree. Whether you love or loathe Apple it's an awesoem achievment.
Overblown? Are you kidding! You know what the iPhone 3G is being called now?
***LORD OF THE RINGS***
Get it? Combined Jesus phone and telephone rings. ROFWL LOLZ
Aren't Apple fanboys so witty?
Is there a way to find out who has them? (More specifically in NC.) That way we won't all be suckers.
Sure.
Use your internet connection, locate the nearest store, call them and ask if they have any. Brilliant, yes I know.
TO GOOGLE 411!!!!
(1800goog411)
to no small part of the fact that the iphone was released in 21 countries simultaneously. and of course it's cheaper.
please, no debates about the price, you know what i mean.
i would love to buy an unlocked iphone for cheap, now that people abandon theirs for 2 little characters.
This is getting ridiculous - it's a phone. I just saw a youtube video of the apple store opening in Japan to let customers in, and they had a fireworks, a countdown, and a whole bunch of other crap. They applauded the very first customers to enter the store. Some guy with surgical gloves installed the sim cards and presented the phone to each person, as they each got their own individual applause from the whole staff... -.-||
Why hate? I am down for it.. If every opening for new technology had fireworks I would be thrilled. I don't see it being rediculous at all. I sense some jealousy that you didn't see those fireworks.
Well that's Japan, I hope to god nobody in the states is doing anything that stupid. Congrats on 1 million iPhones sold! Now I wonder how long its going to take 1 million AT&T customers to default on the ridiculous payments for that data plan.
I understand how ridiculous all this is, but you have to hand it to Apple for the products they produce and their marketing.
I went to the mall this weekend that is usually packed on a Saturday, and yes there was a line outside the Apple store, but the rest of the mall seemed dead. I asked a lot of the retailers why it was so dead and almost all of them said they felt it was due to the iPhone being released. So in that regard, you tell me any other company that could make that big of an impact on one single item. Just my two cents!
Some of us have jobs and can afford a whoping $70 a month.
Aww, look, personal insults. Just wanted to make sure people understood your maturity level, huh?
It's ok, if I had a sister maybe I'd be more worried about the big ole e-bullies picking on her. ;)
HA! this is the guy that tried to make a crack at me by saying that there are people out there that have jobs! ooooooooooo no way really? when did you find that out? Did your class take a field trip to the unemployment office today? Say what you like at least I'm mature enough to NOT state the obvious.
Jealousy is a nasty emotion. Let it go. The New World Order has been released upon the masses and nothing can stop it. Woohoo.
OfflinePK: You make a stupid comment, I make a stupid comment. Being that you've made it clear that you do have a job, obviously you know you're not going to default on a $70 bill, right?
@ Andrew,
can't be much of a job if you can't afford $70 a month. I'm a highschool student with a part time job paying minimum wage ($7.75 here in Canada), and my phone bill is sometimes up to $90 for my blackberry pearl, and I pay it.. maybe you need a better job bud.
@myself
my bad, guess I misread your comment.
Rank as you will.
Haha, I wondered what the hell you were talking about. It's ok, if caniac happens to refer to the Carolina Hurricanes then you're good in my book. :)
Ridiculous compared to what exactly? If the AT&T plan is ridiculous then so in Verizon, T-Mobile, etc. I know Sprint Sero is cheaper, but Sprint, is, Sprint. I've had them before and I never will again.
AT&T's pricing is comparable to the other big carriers.
i'd like to know how many of those 1 million iphones still have problems with the activation.
I doubt any. The activation servers have been working since afternoon/evening on launch day. Mine activated around 2-3pm I think, but iTunes was still a little shaky even then. I couldn't do the registration stuff, but it did activate, and later on that day I was able to get registration done without issue.
Some of the UK ones were still goosed on Monday morning.
mine was fine when i got it saturday morning.
so, er, you know at least 2 of those 1M were fine. :)
Around of 30% of that millions are iPhone 1.0 owners.
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200807141441DOWJONESDJONLINE000533_FORTUNE5.htm
today...."No seriously boss! I'm sick! *cough cough*"
tomorrow..."No seriously boss! I'm sick from standing out in the rain for hours on end for a phone yesterday....oh damnit. I wasn't supposed to tell you that....what's that?...I'm fired?.....oh, well I guess it's a good thing i'm not paying extra for the text message plan."
iPhone 3.0 is going to be the one to get.
Better battery, better camera. SMS photo's. All carriers.
365 days to go.
Better keep waiting on that one. As time goes on, MMS will become more pointless, not more useful (email WILL take over SMS/MMS on phones, it's just logical, it's just a matter of time before the more simplistic phones get it). And the iPhone won't be on any other carrier in the US until 2012 as per Apple and AT&T's exclusivity agreement.
I do hope we get some big advances in battery technology, and get an upgraded camera with video recording though.
No, there are 126 days to go.
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
(Scroll down to the bottom.)
@me are you sure that doesn't refer to firmware?
@colin potter
Yeah, I'm pretty sure - the Mac part of the buyers guide definitely doesn't refer to software updates.......so I'm pretty sure its the same for iPhone.
I don't get the whole MMS thing. e-mail is way better and is part of unlimited data plan, and any attachments also show up on any computer I log into. Not to be elitist, but MMS is for kids. Besides, MMS is a software thing. Apple could easily implement it if they wanted to.
There is some good stuff on the App Store and there is some really terrible stuff, and then there is stuff which, while very well done, does not prove to be what you expected, and there is the one big problem with the AppStore - no demos. I bought a game that all the reviews said was good and the (lone) screenshot looked fine, so I decided to risk the $5 on it. It's a fine game, well implemented and slick, but it turned out to essentially be a variation on Bejeweled, and I don't find it very fun (I don't like Bejeweled either.) Had there been a free, perhaps time-limited demo, I could easily have avoided wasting my money on it. Instead I was left with a bad taste and am now a lot more hesitant about buying apps from the AppStore. They need to add support for demos.
Did you read the reviews before buying? Did you write one, so that the next guy has a head's up?
Yes and yes. The first was already answered in my original message. The reviews were no help to me and even my review is only of limited help to others. What we need are demos so we can make our own mind up, instead of relying solely on others reviews.
Give it a month, and you'll at least have some playthrough demos on youtube. I always check there for product reviews because there's usually at least one video demonstration.
I'd rather spend my money on cocaine.
so would the product development team, apparently.
You already snorted that powdery stuff. That's why you don't have an iPhone 3G.
"White lines (Don't do it)" - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
Then it will be you that will have to be Jailbroken
No maka spliff for de rasta?
Out of all the 10 million downloads my guess is that the free apps account for 95% of the downloads.
Likely.
I've downloaded... 9 apps so far on my phone, maybe a couple of others that I've since deleted, all free.
I don't think it's a good time to start paying for apps yet though. Now that the SDKs are wide open, tons more apps are going to show up. An app you like now for $10 may have a better version come out in a week or two for free.
I'll give it a little while before I start paying for apps.
Even if 99% of those apps are free, 100,000 people downloading paid apps in a few days sounds like a success to me.
I would be surprised on even that. I have downloaded probably 20 apps, and only purchased one. And now I am less inclined to purchase more Apps, because apparently the Developer can change the price in an instant. As I paid $7.99 for an app that two days later is $5.99. There was a conversation over on TUAW about how it would be nice for Apple to implement the simulator used in the SDK directly into iTunes, so you can get a feel for the app before purchase.
U guys are the suckers for feeding into all of this bullshit. Engadget network is the most biased peice of shit stories I have ever seen. THey censor post that might offend there companies and probably take payoffs from Apple if they aren't Apple themselves. Socialist online Society at its best.
B4 you all start bashing...don't bother, I will never be back here to see it
Don't forget to email me: Dlease76@gmail.com
I'm only replying to fill your Inbox. (Everyone else, reply just to spam him!)
You may be a troll but you won't get our goats (ha... nursery rhyme reference)
I thought their review was quite fair compared to some so-called reviewers.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/iphone-3g-review/
I would have written more about what Bluetooth profiles were supported, tho, and more depth really is needed like on some other specialist sites, but overall, quite fair and quite good given the (apparently) short time with the device.
I am glad you won't be back....
Apparently there was a rule somewhere that said Engadget can only post what "Don" wants to read. Silly Engadget for thinking they could post whatever THEY wanted on THEIR website. You guys really need to email Don and apologize and ask him what he wants to read about next.
Wow. You're incredibly vile. Good riddance.
inboxed
Everyone could be in line to return the one they picked up last week LOL
That would be the Instinct users.
Yeah, no kidding. I was with Sprint before and have friends who work for Sprint and the Instinct is just terrible. It has no market really. It's not advanced enough for gadget nerds like a lot of people here. It's too complicated for "mom and dad", leaving the only real market for it as a fashion statement, which it will never have in the shadows of the iPhone.
I guess it does leave the rebels who want to live with an inferior phone just to say it's not an iPhone. Believe me, I did that with a Mogul up until Friday. Once I got the new iPhone I couldn't believe the shit I put up with on the Mogul.
Hell at that price even I am tempted to buy one. I just wonder how long will it be until they recoup their losses. I think it was pretty smart of apple to sell it during the summer. hell I think every hot piece of electronic kit should be sold in the summer so we can have camping parties. The store can hand out free beers. :)
Someone want to point me to the apple free Engadget blog? I remember there was one around on the internet somewhere..
Let's see how to calculate this. A million iPhones every three days, so that means by the end of the year Apple will sell a google amount of iPhones, give or take a gazillion. Wow! That's so effing awesome. The iPhone virus is starting to spread exponentially on a global scale, killing off all those non-iPhone handsets.
iPhone world domination comes early this year. Did I hear a bell? Yup, it's the bell that's tolling the death of all WinMo handsets. They are so much a part of history now, that they'll be forgotten in about six months, to the point they never even existed.
Okay, Steve Ballmer, let's see your tear- and sweat-stained Monkey Dance. Don't cry "Developers, developers, developers..." Cry Apple iPhone developers, Apple iPhone developers, Apple iPhone developers...."
Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching! Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money.
Oops, sorry I got a bit carried away. I sure don't mean to offend the people who can't afford iPhones. I'll try to be more humble in the future.
iPhone 3G = EPIC VICTORIOUS WIN
"...by the end of the year Apple will sell a google amount of iPhones..."
Google is a company. The number you are looking for is a googol.
Fanboys: Giving a bad name to the rest of us.
Don't get me wrong here, but this has been gone so many times that it gets a bit tiresome.
Even if Apple sold 40 million in a year it still isn't close to top players. Nokia sells 161 million phones in 3 months time and has 59% of market share in smart phones. Nokia alone sells a 28 million gps phones in a year and while it does all this those phones also make more profit from each phone compared to Samsung, SE and Moto phones. Nokia has totally different brand image in Asia and Europe than in USA(as it's actually the most valuable brand from Europe).
This dosent' take anything away from iphone(numbers don't tell how good the product is) and it deserves it's place, but it's worthless to praise this Apple takes all these companies down because globally these numbers still ain't huge.
Po - Nokia sells 161 million of a SINGLE MODEL? Yeah, let's compare apples to apples, shall we? Your number is all Nokia phones combined, while Apple is only selling one phone. Furthermore, Apple just now started selling them in most other countries besides the US.
You go ahead and pick a Nokia model (just one, not all of them), look up how many sold in the first three days, and get back to me. That will be a much more accurate comparison.
Well you asked for... no one knows how much have it sold to this day, but a year ago it had sold over 200 million being the most bought electric device ever 1100. N95 had sold 10 million about year ago dunno how much now as the price dropped for 100 euroes about 3 weeks ago. And that phone is the one that's second most expensive after E90 in Nokia's portfolio.
Plus Nokia's strong point is just the fact that it makes many phones for different users.
10 million in a year? You're kidding, right? The iPhone will easily sell more than 10 million this year alone. Easily. 1 million in THREE DAYS. Think about that, and think about it real hard. And this year is half over already.
Got this to wrong place - Anyways it's not Nokia like to have press conference after every 10 million phones sold with every unit so it's hard to say about many other phones, but most ptobally 6500 slide and especially 6300 have sold many times the amount as N95 being most sold phones for months all around the globe(US not inculded of course).
N95 sold that 10 millions in 1/2 year and that was before the price went down and it's still in the top 10 uk selling phones after being in sale for 2 years).
To your receant post i have no problem believing it can sell 10 million this year, but considering that it won't probally ever even get to N95 sales(like i said second most expensive Nokia phone) it tell you in what kind of companies it is fighting with and it dosen't include Nokia in it.
More like Moto that's currently only stong hold is USA is getting the hit, not Nokia, Samsung and SE that makes it profit in Asia and Europe(in the biggest mobile phone markets).
And the iDiot award of the day goes to...
Zak, the only one not thinking is you.
The million units that Apple has sold already are predominantly to all of those people who really wanted one anyways.
Now, since the hype machine is still rolling, Apple still stands to sell a couple of more million within the first month of launch, but logic, and a long list of historical precedences with respect to every other piece of "hot" (i.e. hyped up) technology would dictate that the demand curve will taper off as time goes on.
Saturation of the market will be reached within a few months time, I guarantee you that.
Apple will be lucky if they can push 10 million units by years end, especially considering how much of a TOTAL RIPOFF the service plans are, and also in light of the fact that the phone itself is technologically outdated both in terms of hardware and software capabilities before it even launched.
hamidxa: Come on now. You say I'm not thinking, then you "guarantee" saturation will be reached in a few months. Really? You can GUARANTEE that? Provide the basis for this guarantee, I'd like to see it. You don't want the iPhone to succeed, and that's fine. However, your opinion neither reflects nor has any impact on reality. The iPhone has only been available in most other countries for what, 4 days now?
Please. You're in for an unpleasant surprise. As to your other points, they're pretty inaccurate. For example, how is the mutitouch in the iPhone outdated? Nobody else seems to have a handle on it. And A-GPS isn't outdated, neither is Apple's UI, which, again, nobody has been able to one-up yet. In the US, 3G isn't outdated either, considering nobody else has anything better.
And if you think the service plans are a ripoff, you're dumber than you sound. Go look at the service plans for any other smartphone that has the same capabilities as the iPhone. Aside from the fact that Apple doesn't set prices for service plans (the providers do... duh), the plans ARE competitive for the most part, with some exceptions like Rogers in Canada.
Zak,
Hell yeah the iPhone plans are a total ripoff, and sure, you want to start taking a look at other smart phone plans, then you can start taking a look at mine.
1250 anytime minutes
UNLIMITED DATA
TETHERING
Unlimited Text
Unlimited Roaming
GPS Turn by Turn Navigation
Nights/Weekends Starting at 7 PM
Unlimited Mobile 2 Mobile
Get this, for $49.99 a month.
SERO
A comparable iPhone plan would cost nearly $100/more per month, $1200 more per year, $2400 more per 2 years, and that's without the turn by turn GPS navigation, that's without the N/W starting @ 7PM, and that's without a lot of features my phone itself has that will likely never see the light of day on an iPhone anytime soon, if at all.
Each and every single iSucker is getting ripped off, be it for a technologically outdated/limited phone before it even hit the market and yet paying ludicrous prices for when purchased without a new contract, or for those ridiculously exorbitant, blatant rip-offs they call service plans.
Oh, and heh, the 3G coverage on ATT versus Sprint's EVDO Rev-A network is a joke -- abysmal at best.
Will anyone gonna camped for new touch-screen blackberry? I doubt.
I doubt you gonna camped for it too?
Wow.
How lame.
"...by the end of the year Apple will sell a google amount of iPhones..."
Google is a company. The number you are looking for is a googol.
Thanks. That's the number. Apple will sell a googol amount of iPhones.
Or 121.6 million, ya know, either way. :)
So million dollar question here...why are people lined up outside of the Fifth Ave Apple Store when it's open 24/7?!?!?
Because they can't all fit in the store at once. I think it takes around 15 minutes to get someone in and out with a phone, IF they hit no snags. It's not an incredibly fast process.