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Apple’s iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend

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Re: Apple’s iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend

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Post by mikeash »

Nux wrote: post #28

There you go, more proof that most people don't give a shit about surveillance, privacy and the lot. Here it is, the one device that can create the biggest fingerprint database in the world sold 9 million units in a couple of days. NSA must be jubilating. Very "forward thinking" indeed.

Cell phones are basically mobile spy boxes. If you carry a cell phone with you, then the government can record every conversation you have, track your position at all times, and steal every password you enter into the phone.

If you're already OK with that, why would you possibly care about your fingerprint? I don't get it.

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Post by joakleaf »

mikeash wrote: post #24
supercoder wrote: post #13

9 million sold. 47 were available in gold.

Realistically, I'd estimate somewhere in the ballpark of 4,000, which is only slightly less absurd than your joke. From what I've heard, Apple stores typically only had ten or so gold units each available on launch day. That's what it was at the store where I was, and I've heard the same from others. Multiply that by the 413 Apple stores worldwide and... that's not very many. Pretty crazy.

No, but Apple probably sold most of their phones via their web site and not from retail stores.

Otherwise each retail store would have sold 20000 phones by the reverse of your math.

So 4000 is probably not a very accurate estimate either...

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Post by agumonkey »

alecsmart1 wrote: post #26
agumonkey wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I couldn't watch it in one go... this is staged right ?

Check this also. It's old but personally knowing fan boys, I know they would act exactly like this- http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4

I saw that when it came online, you can't prove the latest kimmel video's honesty by using an older one. He also revealed posting fake youtube fail videos so now everything he shows is questionnable.

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Post by geuis »

Nux wrote: post #28

There you go, more proof that most people don't give a shit about surveillance, privacy and the lot. Here it is, the one device that can create the biggest fingerprint database in the world sold 9 million units in a couple of days. NSA must be jubilating. Very "forward thinking" indeed.

No, it can't. Why people don't listen to the damn talks given by the people who build these things is beyond me.

It was explicitly said during the announcement that no fingerprint is actually stored. It looks for certain unique ridges and swirls and builds up a hash from that. That hash is the only thing communicated to Apple. No fingerprint data is transfered.

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Post by olleicua »

milesskorpen wrote: post #30
Nux wrote: post #28

There you go, more proof that most people don't give a shit about surveillance, privacy and the lot. Here it is, the one device that can create the biggest fingerprint database in the world sold 9 million units in a couple of days. NSA must be jubilating. Very "forward thinking" indeed.

As people have written a thousand times so far, the finger print isn't saved off device. Yes, it is saved. But if someone can get your device, they can also get your fingerprint (probably from the screen of the same device).

Since you are making this claim, I'll assume you've read the entire codebase of iOS. Is there anything stopping Apple from sending out an update that uploads the fingerprint?? Is there anything stopping the NSA from requiring Apple to do this?? It's not paranoia anymore.

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Post by snom380 »

Nux wrote: post #28

There you go, more proof that most people don't give a shit about surveillance, privacy and the lot. Here it is, the one device that can create the biggest fingerprint database in the world sold 9 million units in a couple of days. NSA must be jubilating. Very "forward thinking" indeed.

You missed the part where the fingerprint is stored so it's not even accessible to the OS and are never stored online?

Oh, but I guess the NSA has a back door and will manage to collect them all without anyone noticing, right? Just like they record all the sound from your phone mic and upload it?

I'm all against unlawful spying by the NSA, but give me a break.

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Post by jasonlotito »

alexfringes wrote: post #8

The article fails to mention that this significantly surpasses the most commonly repeated estimate of 6M (made by Piper Jaffray). Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57603553-37/apple-expected...

FTA: Analysts had predicted between 5 and 8 million launch weekend sales across both devices

That is a link to another earlier article on Apple Insider discussing such predictions:

"In fact, Kuo said in a note to investors on Wednesday that Apple will likely ship 6 to 8 million new iPhones over the devices' first weekend of sales. By comparison, Apple racked up 5 million sales when the iPhone 5 debuted last year. Earlier in the day, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster forecast 5 to 6 million unit sales, a more conservative number based on the prior model's in-store launch sales."

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Post by badman_ting »

coldcode wrote: post #22

Clearly they are going out of business. Not to mention only 200 Million devices running iOS7 so far.

Yup, Apple is as doomed as ever. Also their customers are sheeple, they are marketing geniuses (even when I write a blog post painstakingly detailing why their ads are terrible), reality distortion field, disruption, etc etc.
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