Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record

apple.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 26 posts

Re: First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record

#2

Post by tenpaiyomi »

It'd be interesting to see a by-country breakdown of sales, given that they added 2 new markets to this release, China and Puerto Rico, having 1.35b and 3.6m populations, respectively. This first weekend could have been great....or it could have been subpar in comparison to the last release, depending on markets.

Re: First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record

#3

Post by johnw »

Fun fact: If you stacked this many iPhones screen to back on top of each other the stack would be at least 82 times the height of the worlds tallest building[1] (assuming they were all the thinner 5S - Apple didn't say how many of this 9 million was the 5S versus the 5C).

[1] Burj Khalifa at 830m

Re: First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record

#7

Post by mikeash »

[deleted] wrote: post #4

[deleted]

People are different and have different tastes. Details at 11!

These are superbly useful devices. They're actually pretty good cameras. Not quite as good as a dedicated one, but quite close, and they have the extreme advantage that you always have it with you.

Calling, texting, GPS navigation, instant weather reports, photos and videos, Facebook, and on and on.

It doesn't have to be your thing. Nothing wrong with that. But I'm a bit surprised you can't see why other people think they're a big deal.

Re: First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record

#8

Post by mikeash »

tenpaiyomi wrote: post #2

It'd be interesting to see a by-country breakdown of sales, given that they added 2 new markets to this release, China and Puerto Rico, having 1.35b and 3.6m populations, respectively. This first weekend could have been great....or it could have been subpar in comparison to the last release, depending on markets.

I think we can exclude PR.

The iPhone 5 sold about two million units on its opening weekend in China, so adding that to its original opening weekend (which didn't include China) and you get about seven million "opening weekend" sales including China's.

So that's seven versus nine million, still a substantial increase.

Re: First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record

#9

Post by markyc »

johnw wrote: post #3

Fun fact: If you stacked this many iPhones screen to back on top of each other the stack would be at least 82 times the height of the worlds tallest building[1] (assuming they were all the thinner 5S - Apple didn't say how many of this 9 million was the 5S versus the 5C). [1] Burj Khalifa at 830m

that fact was not very fun

Re: First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record

#10

Post by Simucal »

[deleted] wrote: post #4

[deleted]

I think my opinion of the smartphone is completely opposite of yours. The smartphone is one of the few products I have bought that has actually made a meaningful and positive impact on my life. When I stop and look at my smartphone it brings a smile to my face because it still amazes me that I have such a powerful and capable computer in my pocket.

I'm reading more than at any other moment in my life before because I'm able to fill boring downtime by firing up the Kindle app. My long car rides are made more enjoyable because I can listen to podcasts and audiobooks. I can design circuit boards, find directions to a restaurant, read wikipedia, browse reddit and snap a photo to share with friends at a moments notice.

In short, it helps me lead a richer life. Having access to the sum of human knowledge in my pocket is amazing.

Post reply on HN