Apple sells 1 million iPhone 3Gs over the weekend, 10 million apps downloaded

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"Apple sold 270,000 (original) iPhones in the first 30 hours on launch weekend"

-- Wikipedia dix it

anyone know how many version 1 iphones sold opening weekend last june? i only find analyst guestimates of 250-500k, making 3G look like a huge success.

A huge success unless you consider that the iPhone 3G was launched in 20 additional markets compared to gen1 (21 countries as opposed to 1) and on sale for an additional 10 hours during the opening weekend (8am on Friday as opposed to 6pm).

It is still a truly astounding number but I'm not sure it warrants the tech blog super soak it's getting. I would venture to guess that Apple's internal estimates were higher than 1 million and that the activation difficulties hurt them plenty. Regardless, it'll still be selling like crazy for quite a while...

As for gen1 iPhone sales, I couldn't find anything concrete either. I've read numbers ranging from 200k to 700k.

thanks for the help. the additional markets was definitely a huge bonus, but you also need to consider that 6 million gen 1 iPhones were already saturating their potential demographics in quite a few places. interesting nonetheless...

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