iPhone 3GS Release
The recent release of the iPhone 3GS (June 19, 2009) represents AT&T’s “Best-Ever Sales Day”. According to AT&T, it took a mere three (3) days for Apple and AT&T to sell the first million iPhone 3GS, as compared to 74 days for the first million iPhones in 2007. Furthermore, “hundreds of thousands …” were ordered through the pre-order process immediately preceding “iLaunch day 2009″. In addition, there were six million downloads of the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first five days since its release.
First day sales were “off the charts”, with an internal AT&T memo “leaked” to MacDailyNews, AT&T reporting:
- “Best-ever sales day in our retail stores
- Second largest traffic day in our retail stores
- Most transactions processed via our IT systems in a single day
- Most upgrade eligibility checks in a single day
- Largest order day in att.com history
- Largest features sales day in att.com history”
Sales during the iPhone 3GS launch exceeded the 2008 iPhone launch day, Black Friday 2008 and Dec. 26, 2008 - all heavy-volume days”.
Apple states “The new iPhone 3GS is the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including improved speed and performance—up to twice as fast as iPhone 3G—with longer battery life, a high-quality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy to use video recording and hands free voice control. iPhone 3GS includes the new iPhone OS 3.0, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 100 new features such as Cut, Copy and Paste, MMS*, Spotlight™ Search, landscape keyboard and more. iPhone 3GS customers get access to more than 50,000 applications from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, the largest application store in the world where customers have already downloaded over one billion apps. iPhone 3GS offers twice the capacity for the same price with a 16GB model for just US$199 and a new 32GB model for just US$299 (for Qualified customers). And iPhone 3G is available at the breakthrough price of just US$99 for the 8GB model — a huge milestone for the high end smartphone market”.
With the popularity of smartphones progressively increasing, Apple is obviously dominating the market, in large part due to the appeal of the iPhone itself, as well as the multitude of diverse applications (”apps”) available, which now exceed 50,000.
It is very instructive, however to read reviews [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] and technical and test specs [7] [8], comparing the iPhone to competitors models. Arguably, perhaps the most potentially instructive material lies in the visceral responses, both pro and con, in the accompanying blogs.
If you have an iPhone and are thinking of upgrading to the 3GS or are sitting on the sidelines (like myself) wondering if you need to upgrade from a simple cell phone to the magic world of the iPhone, this makes for very interesting reading indeed. I my humble opinion, the issue resolves itself down to support. I believe there is substantial support available for the iPhone that I don’t believe exists, or at least not to the same extent, as through Apple.
Tags: Apple, Applications, apps, iPhone, iPhone 3GS, iStire, review, technical specs
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