Apple sold 9 million iPhones over the weekend

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Apple sold 9 million iPhones during the first weekend of availability. This massive sale should calm the whispers that consumers are falling out of love with Apple in favor of other mobile giants such as Samsung.

There were long lines at many Apple locations around the world filled with eager individuals who wanted to be among the first to try out Apple’s new iPhone 5s and 5c. While many thought that Apple may have intentionally not allowed 5s pre-orders to build longer lines, it does look like they genuinely were in short supplies of the devices.

The 9 million in sales is a new record for Apple, which will certainly help boost their stock price when the market opens later today. Apple also announced that over 200 million devices are now running iOS 7, which is a huge achievement for the company and developers too.

Apple’s new iPhone 5s and 5c comes with iOS 7, which has been receiving mostly positive reviews, but not everyone seems to be pleased. The new flat look and updated UX is a bit of a change over iOS 6 and time will tell if iOS 7 is the best path forward for Apple.

Posted: Sep 23, 2013 1:47 pm
Related Forum: Mobile Devices

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/apple-sold-9-million-iphones-over-the-weekend

Comments

CenPosted: Mon. Sep 23, 2013

Urf And the boasted impenetrable Fingerprint Unlock was already hacked. Good job, Germany.

No one boasted it as impenetrable. It's a much more secure and easier security system than the 4 digit pin code, though.

TaigaAisakaPosted: Mon. Sep 23, 2013

Mentalist
ShadowBoltDashie I've gone to a few different stores and they're sold out completely on iPhone 5S, the iPhone 5C is still in stock in some places but iPhone 5S, have been sold out since release. Waiting for them to restock so I can get one.

I might get the 5C, I like all the different colors, it's something new.

I was tempted to get the 5C but then again the colors is not what I'm really after. I like the black iPhone 5 as the color scheme looks really good together in my opinion. I also want the iPhone 5S for the fingerprint scanner and the 5C doesn't have it so that's another reason I didn't want to get it.

_MarkPosted: Mon. Sep 23, 2013

Hopefully I can get mine on October

SwiftPosted: Mon. Sep 23, 2013

Mentalist
ShadowBoltDashie I've gone to a few different stores and they're sold out completely on iPhone 5S, the iPhone 5C is still in stock in some places but iPhone 5S, have been sold out since release. Waiting for them to restock so I can get one.

I might get the 5C, I like all the different colors, it's something new.

If I have to I would get the 5c just to have as a backup just in case anything were to happen to my Droid.

SwiftPosted: Mon. Sep 23, 2013

Everyone wants the new iPhone every freaking year. Its insane. I remember when people were going crazy over the iPhone 5.

MentalistPosted: Mon. Sep 23, 2013

ShadowBoltDashie I've gone to a few different stores and they're sold out completely on iPhone 5S, the iPhone 5C is still in stock in some places but iPhone 5S, have been sold out since release. Waiting for them to restock so I can get one.

I might get the 5C, I like all the different colors, it's something new.

MentalistPosted: Mon. Sep 23, 2013

WOW! That's insane, I understand it though, everyone wants that new iPhone.

UrfPosted: Mon. Sep 23, 2013

And the boasted impenetrable Fingerprint Unlock was already hacked. Good job, Germany.

TomorrowLandPosted: Mon. Sep 23, 2013

Waw. 9 million is a lot for a product as expensive as an iPhone!

TaigaAisakaPosted: Mon. Sep 23, 2013

I've gone to a few different stores and they're sold out completely on iPhone 5S, the iPhone 5C is still in stock in some places but iPhone 5S, have been sold out since release. Waiting for them to restock so I can get one.

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