When the iPhone 3GS was announced, analysts expected pretty good sales - nothing too extreme or mind blowing, but not poor either. Apparently they were wrong. The website Mac Daily News has been tipped off with an internal AT&T company memo, explaining that the 3GS launch was the best sales day the company had ever seen, and dubbed it "iLaunch Day 2009." We've included the memo below.1. Fact of the Week: On June 25, the day Michael Jackson died, text messages sent on our network spiked at 65,000 messages per second — the largest volume ever recorded — surpassing events like American Idol voting and New Year's Eve, when millions of our customers wish their friends and family a happy new year via text."
2. "iLaunch day 2009 was one for the record books, as AT&T customers scrambled to get their hands on the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet.
Here's a look at some of the milestones we achieved:
* 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
On this year's launch day, iPhone sales exceeded sales recorded on 2008's iPhone launch day, Black Friday 2008 and Dec. 26, 2008 — all heavy-volume sales days. In fact, this year we surpassed 2008's launch day sales at about noon Central time, and sustained our previous peak hour record, also set in 2008, for 11 straight hours.
The memo doesn't exactly say how many sales were made, but after being contacted by Apple Insider, a spokesperson said, "We have no further comment beyond that," after repeating the fact that they had hundreds of thousands of pre-orders. Apple itself was a bit more revealing in terms of numbers, as it stated that there were over one million iPhones sold in three days. No doubt next year we'll see even higher figures, although only time will tell.
I can hear them now..
Must be a slow time for comments.
grr they're almost here
Its not really anti Apple; Its just the people buying a overpriced phone which this year has gotten MMS
Don't forget copy, paste feature
When they say sales, they're not saying in terms of profit, they're saying in terms of how many units were sold.
When they say sales, they're not saying in terms of profit, they're saying in terms of how many units were sold.
Like I said the memo doesn't say sales = units or money but assuming it is money, the original iPhone meant a lot of new contracts or renewed contracts resulting in them being sold for $200, then the iPhone 3G was released and they were sold as updates to even the people with the original iPhone resulting in many renewed contracts and some new contracts with AT&T, now the update isn't there so people are paying full price resulting in higher "sales", if sales is defined as money and not units moved as I said before.
hahaha, hahaha, hahaha, this if funny, because some iPhones have been warming up, due to a harware fault..... unlike every over single device that has ever been released in the history of mankind. (Until Microsoft releases a fridge that is).
Besides, more sales means more developer support and the like to the App store so there is some gain to users.
Besides, more sales means more developer support and the like to the App store so there is some gain to users.
People care about what's in the news because they like to know what's going on in the world. Just like why your reading these forums/posts
Edrick Smith on 03 Jul 2009 - 04:50
Wait for it.... Just wait for it....
Does that guy work for apple?
As brain-dead as that sounds you also have to wonder how Apple can get away with such robbery. No other manufacturer on the planet could get a cell phone carrier to agree to a monthly royalty but somehow Steve can.
This would be a great idea for Microsoft, much better than some of there other purchases (facebook for example). Or palm, either would be a great fit for Microsoft (or Dell). Rim might be more than Microsoft can afford.
Each time someone comes in and requests for this the only reason they want it is because its supposed to be good from the advertisements OMG do some freaking research and look at the other companies
Like seriously in Australia these things sell for over $1000 in some places and people actually pay for it. Then when they have problems they come back to us expecting to know how to fix a f#$king apple product because they believe everyone uses them.
You have to hand it to Apple they advertise to the stupid people and get results.
And it's not like everyone is buying the device blindly or on looks alone. At close to $1000 theres a good many of consumers who will think twice before just throwing that amount of money at something.
And it's not like everyone is buying the device blindly or on looks alone. At close to $1000 theres a good many of consumers who will think twice before just throwing that amount of money at something.
Unless you worked in the industry and dealt with the people you wouldn't understand and yes people throw around $1000 likes it nothing but for some reason you dont understand that People buy what they cant afford all the time.
And if you buy Apple why should a reseller have to deal with it since Apple doesn't provide us any support. Its called contact the manufacture
And it's not like everyone is buying the device blindly or on looks alone. At close to $1000 theres a good many of consumers who will think twice before just throwing that amount of money at something.
Unless you worked in the industry and dealt with the people you wouldn't understand and yes people throw around $1000 likes it nothing but for some reason you dont understand that People buy what they cant afford all the time.
And if you buy Apple why should a reseller have to deal with it since Apple doesn't provide us any support. Its called contact the manufacture
What a joke. Who else do you expect people to come to, you sold them a faulty device, you should now how to get it fixed.
Yeah, people don't appreciate functionality, like the iPhone, the most easily funcitonal mobile phone ever invented.
bit much don't you think?
OMG 65,000 a second? that's epic.
alllll IMO
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