Over One Million iPhone 3GS served
From the release:
Apple® today announced that it has sold over one million iPhone™ 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch. In addition, six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first five days since its release.
“Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.”
This would be the first time this year that Apple sends out a press release quoting Steve Jobs.
More than 1 million iPhones in 3 days is similar to last year but last year they had 21 countries on launch day while this year they only had eight (USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK). This makes it even more impressive after reading reports of shorter lines and shorter wait times people endured this year. Some analysts projected much lower sales figures of 500 thousand to 750 thousand. Wall Street would love this.
However Apple and AT&T still had activation issues prompting Apple to send out $30 iTunes Gift Certificates to those who purchased a new iPhone this past weekend and had issues with activating their phones.
One last thing, Apple had been calling the new iPhone the iPhone 3G S prior to this release and they still do on the product pages. For whatever reason, their PR department had decided to call it the iPhone 3GS, without the space, and they even went so far as to amending previous releases to say 3GS instead of 3G S. Journalists over on Twitter are having fun and throwing mock fits with this turnaround.
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