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Apple iPhone sales top 100,000 units in UK’s first weekend | |
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| Time: 11:10 EST/16:10 GMT | News Source: Mac Daily News | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Sales of the new iPhone are believed to have topped 100,000 in just over TWO DAYS," Charles Rae reports for The Sun. "Analysts say Apple could sell a whopping 500,000 of the £269 gizmos by Christmas." "A spokeswoman for Carphone Warehouse said: 'We are really pleased.' ...An O2 spokesman said: 'We don’t have official figures yet, but sales are more than exceeding our expectations,'" Rae reports. | ||
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| #1 By 3 (86.1.34.106) at 11/12/2007 11:14:58 AM |
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As much as I think it is a great phone (for what I need to do Lloyd etc) I can't see it as selling 100,000 here in the first two days, the queues were small on the first day, but in saying that the big sales were expected on the Saturday so I guess it could well have been.
If so it is a big sucess and the biggest phone launch in the UK in many many years. |
| #2 By 23275 (71.12.191.230) at 11/12/2007 11:48:15 AM |
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ya'll need to get past the justifications - despite good natured ribbing from friends.
What I mean is, it has to be okay to simply like a device, or product and when asked why x, y, or z was purchased, one has to simply say, "I liked it and think it's cool and fun" or "I was simply curious and wanted to try something different." It's all discretionary personal spending, etc... which is a different matter and has different metrics than what one finds in even a small company - where management, and integration matter more... For me, the iPhone, iWhatever, isn't my cup of tea, or coffee, or Cherry Coke Zero [that stuff really is quite good]. The marketing turns me off - not on and that carries onto the devices - but it does serve as the source for some good natured ribbing - not unlike the remorse one playfully expresses when a friend's rival football team stumbles against a less highly ranked team. So like the iPhone - just like it despite the Apple marketing ;) |
| #3 By 3 (86.1.34.106) at 11/12/2007 11:58:02 AM |
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My honest view is that I wanted an iPod again and rather than carry two devices I wanted one very good one and the iPhone gave me that, I also didn't need the larger size ipods as I only carry new music most of the time as I don't listen to old stuff outside of the house. I wanted something that was both stylish and easy to use and I have to admit I find Windows Mobile devices really ugly in both UI terms and hardware terms.
That doesn't mean I don't like Windows Mobile either, I just didn't have use for most of their features. I also loved the idea of having a proper real web browser at last on a phone and no other device comes close to that and as the place I work at has a wi-fi connection for staff at all times I can use it while I wander around. That and the fact that most places I go to such as pubs here have the cloud network which you get free with the iphone in the UK. I'm a gadget freak and even without the marketing hype I would have still got one if I had seen it from a friend or in a shop. There will be before iphone and after iphone UI's from now on and I'm glad that they entered the market even if it lacks some good features like 3G etc - the phone market sure as hell needed a good kicking. |
| #4 By 32313 (208.131.186.18) at 11/12/2007 3:42:42 PM |
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Well thats amazing. The fact that it cost more than US version and sold so many in just two days is a good sign its a success. The more it gets out in the public eye over there, the more people will end up wanting it and eventually end up buying it. Its really an awesome looking device and would personally fit my needs. I honestly don't have any use for Mobile Word and Excel and just a lot of the stuff that comes with Windows Mobile.
The fact that you are getting three devices in one with the iPhone makes it a really great value, the interface is visually rich and stunning too, clean and simple. Apple did a great job with this, no one should deny that. Too bad it won't be hitting Jamaica for a while (or probably never) and too bad I don't have the cash to buy it. |
| #5 By 82766 (202.154.80.85) at 11/13/2007 12:43:13 AM |
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I like the UI and I like the idea of two devices in one (not sure what the third is that Awandre refers to) but... unless they keep selling 100K per week (to be easy on them) they're still not going to take any real market share away from the millions upon millions of Nokia S60's and WM devices out there.
I read last week, there are at least 50 million WM devices?! and HTC *alone* are selling just under 5 million per YEAR. Thats an awful lot of WM devices! although I cannot personally believe they're selling that many... it just seems too many to me :-) Sure the WM UI needs serious work to make it consumer friendly with pretty graphics and colours but I'll stick with my WM device because I can still easily browse the web perfectly fine thank you (we're all the same zoom'ed up!), get my emails sent to me, my tasks, VPN into networks, RDP onto servers, wirelessly access networks, print out emails/webpages/word/excel files etc, edit and use word/excel/powerpoint files, listen to my FM radio, play my gig's of music and videos... all at 3.6Mbps 3G connection speeds any where in the world on a AU$50 a month plan and so on :-) But I still like the look of the iPhone UI... ok ok so I'm like many other consumers :-) This post was edited by MyBlueRex on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 00:44. |
| #6 By 23275 (71.12.191.230) at 11/13/2007 1:32:26 AM |
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#5, As part of the service we provide our customers, we've always handled the ordering, setup and integration of smartphones to the hosted services we provide. Frankly, it's just easier and less headache to simply have the stuff drop-shipped to us than it is to take honey-do calls whenever a customer buys a new device.
Since their inception, we have seen a very steady increase in the use of smartphones - most especially since direct push with the SFP began to ship - at the same rate, we've seen RIM/BB sales drop off. While some customers, usually men in their early 40's, like the design of the iPhone, it just doesn't integrate well at all - and one misses the tight integration with Exchange - there is nothing like processing mail items when away from a PC and never having to re-process them when one comes back to the PC. That one thing keeps a lot of business people off of the iPhone. For kids [I do say that with great affection] who do not process a lot of business mail that is tied to their revenue, or earnings, the iPhone's messaging support may be enough - but for anyone who really uses messaging, the smartphone and WM is the only real game in town. These days all customers have many smartphones. They are the norm and no longer the exception. I can easily see how xxxxx millions are sold. They are at the top of every new build list we have seen for some time now. When you add that capability to centralized management and group business accounts where there are mean savings to be had, WM is very tough to beat - regardless of how compelling certain UX features may be. To fully leverage that, one needs a real keyboard - one they can "feel" and despite the rather drap, even ugly, appearance of many smartphones, they really do work and they really do help a person get more done. That's just not Apple's or the iPhone's market. Oh, and when business people commute, they work - they don't usually have time for media. So media functions fall well behind rich text messaging and attachment editing. |
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