Sales Figures

Verizon sells 2.2 million iPhone 4, says iPhone 5 will be a world phone

By Georgia, Thursday, Apr 21, 2011 a 11:37 am

Verizon joined Apple and AT&T this week in releasing their quarterly results, and during the conference call revealed 2.2 million Verizon iPhone 4 were sold since launch, and that iPhone 5 looks to be a world phone. Overall, Verizon announced 6.3 percent year-over-year increase in revenues, data revenues up 22.3 percent, 1.8 million net new subscribers, and 104.0 million total connections, including 88.4 million retail customers.

50 million iPhones sold + 35 million iPod touches = 85 million iPhone OS devices

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Apr 8, 2010 a 10:29 pm

Steve Jobs reported today that Apple had sold 50 million iPhones and 35 million iPod touch for a grand total of 85 million iPhone OS devices on the market (okay, 85,450,000 including the iPad).

Jobs said this was a great target for developers. He's right. No matter how many complaints there are about iPhone OS and Apple's stewardship thereof, that's a tremendous install base of devices that can pretty much all run the same OS (give or take a few features here or there) and same apps.

That's huge.

450,000 iPads sold, 600,000 iBooks, 3.5 million apps downloaded

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Apr 8, 2010 a 9:59 pm

As part of the iPhone 4.0 sneak preview event today, Steve Jobs announced some numbers about iPad sell-through to date (meaning Saturday to Thursday):

450,000 iPads were sold. Best Buy was out of stock and Apple Retail was selling them as fast as they could get them.
600,000 iBooks downloaded (which includes free Project Gutenberg titles, no doubt).
3.5 million iPad apps download (ditto free apps).

Initial surge and early adoption or not, all in less than a week on the market has to be termed a success.

1 Million iPhone 3G S, and 6 Million iPhone 3.0 Downloads Served

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jun 22, 2009 a 9:46 am

Apple PR has announced that:

it has sold over one million iPhone™ 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch. In addition, six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first five days since its release.

That's a good number of units for the device equivalent of another sequel release, isn't it? It's also enough to get Steve Jobs back up in the quoting chair:

Attack of the Twofer: BlackBerry Briefly Outsells iPhone

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, May 5, 2009 a 6:21 am

Yes, it's true. Just like CrackBerry's reporting. According to NPD (via Engadget), the oldest remaining version of the BlackBerry Curve, when heavily discounted and given away in two-for-one promo deals, briefly regained the #1 best seller position on the smartphone index from the iPhone 3G, which had to settle for a high-margin #2. Also, discounted and given away two-for-one, when combined with heavy marketing and the power and reach of the Verizon network... did not. BlackBerry Storm was #3.

Apple Stores Currently Selling 22 iPhones on Average a Day?

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Apr 15, 2009 a 5:34 pm

Apple Insider, covering Piper Jaffray's favorite Apple analyst, Gene Munster, passes along:

Sales of 22 iPhones per stores is down from 28 iPhones per store during November, which suggests a 21 percent decline in sales sequentially compared to the Street's view of a 24 percent drop. However, Munster is betting that expanded international availability will help offset some of these domestic declines and is therefore modeling iPhone sales for the March quarter to be relatively flat at 4.4 million units.

iTunes HD TV: Over 1 Million Sold -- In the USA!

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 a 9:32 am

Back during September's iPod and iTunes focused "Let's Rock" event, Apple announced that they would begin carrying "stunning" HD TV Shows, and that -- surprise surprise -- NBC had come skulking back into the fold as well.

Now Apple reports that they have all 4 big US-based television networks: ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC available in HD, and what's more:

IMEI Tracking Voodoo = 8 Million iPhones Sold?

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Sep 4, 2008 a 3:55 pm

Following on yesterday's Net Applications MobileSafari metrics, which showed ever increasing iPhone browser share, TUAW now tells us Investor Village has found yet another obscure path to sales deviation. This method involves tracking the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) code on each individual iPhone sold, and using it:

T-Mobile Announces 120,000 iPhone 3Gs Sold!

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Aug 26, 2008 a 9:35 pm

T-Mobile CEO Hamid Akhavan, speaking to Focus, revealed that Big Magenta(TM) has sold 120,000 iPhone 3G units since it went on sale July 11. The breakdown included 75,000 for Germany with the remainder being gobbled up in the Netherlands and Austria.

1,000,000 iPhone 3Gs Served -- In 3 Days!

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jul 14, 2008 a 12:13 pm

3 days. That's how long it took Apple and their carrier-partners to sell one million iPhone 3Gs. Says Apple CEO Steve Jobs:

"iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend. It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.”

Almost 25 times faster. Server crash-induced delays not withstanding, other manufacturers -- other carriers -- must be having a sobering Monday morning. (Especially with it taking 6 months for Palm sell as many uber-cheap Centros...)