Sales

Apple: Consumer demand for the iPad 2 is "amazing"

By Andrew Wray, Monday, Mar 14, 2011 a 1:22 pm

The Loop was able to speak with Apple Spokesperson Trudy Muller today, who stated Apple saw consumer demand for the iPad 2 launch last Friday to be "amazing".

“Demand for the next generation iPad 2 has been amazing,” Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller, told The Loop. “We are working hard to get iPad 2 into the hands of every customer who wants one as quickly as possible.”

Is Verizon iPhone your first iOS device?

By Brian Tufo, Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011 a 9:19 am

Verizon iPhone didn't meet initial sales expectations?

By Andrew Wray, Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011 a 5:03 pm

BGR is reporting that, according to one of their Apple sources, the first week of sales for the new Verizon iPhone were purportedly smaller than Apple and Verizon expected. The figures were drawn from five Apple retails stores covering the first five days of availability, including two "very, very prominent" locations and show a dwindling margin between AT&T and Verizon sales after the first 48 hours of availability:

How many iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads were opened on Christmas? Ask Facebook and Tapulous

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Dec 27, 2010 a 1:25 pm

How many iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads were opened on Christmas? Check out the Facebook for iPhone download spike above for one datapoint. A second datapoint comes from Tap Tap Revenge 4:

Tapulous tells us that peak Christmas downloads reached 45,000 per hour, and that holiday download traffic is twice the levels of last year.

Facebook is probably the most popular iPhone app of all time and TTR4 is among the most popular right now, but the mapping is probably still not be one-to-one. Either way, that's a lot of iOS devices under the tree this year.

Apple TV sales top 1 million

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Dec 21, 2010 a 9:11 am

Apple announced today that sales of Apple TV are expected to top 1 million units this week. The significantly smaller, significantly less expensive Apple TV was introduced at Apple's annual iPod and iTunes event in September and released around the end of that month. With a focus on rental rather than purchase, streaming rather than sync, Hollywood rather than "amateur hour" and Netflix as well as iTunes, Apple's PR on the subject provides some interesting stats but strangely, no quotes from Apple execs:

iTunes users are now renting and purchasing over 400,000 TV episodes and over 150,000 movies per day.

Publishers cut game prices, hope to secure top spot before App Store holiday freeze

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Dec 18, 2010 a 8:59 am

EA recently lowered the price of roughly 70 of their iPhone and iPad App Store games to $0.99, now Gamevil and Namco have also reduced their prices and as the holiday iTunes Connect deadline fast approaches, more may follow. Mike Schramm from TUAW explains why:

Apple is freezing the charts on December 23rd, which means that any games in the top 200 at that time will remain there over the all-important Christmas holiday, the point at which we've seen the biggest jumps in App Store sales (due to all the new hardware out there under the tree).

So when everyone gets their brand new iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and heads over to the App Store to get their game on, those top selling, top free, and top grossing leaderboards are going to be marketing gold.

List of Namco [iTunes link] sales after the break. Now who's next?

[TUAW]

Do you buy apps right away or wait for sales?

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Nov 25, 2010 a 1:39 pm

Do you buy apps right away or wait for sales?online surveys

With one of the biggest sales days of the year almost upon us I began to think about the iPhone and iPad App Store and whether low price points encouraged consistent buying or frequent sales trained shoppers to always wait for sales?

Do you always buy the latest, greatest apps and games the minute they come out, eager to get right into them and seldom phased by prices that are about the same as a latte or hamburger? Or do you think pretty much every app with drop in price after a few weeks or months, or have a seasonal sale, so why bother paying more?

Sweet deals on iPhone navigation apps this Black Friday and Cyber Monday

By Georgia, Thursday, Nov 25, 2010 a 11:47 am

Turn by turn navigation apps for the iPhone are some of the most expensive in the App Store so when a bunch of them told TiPb they were having Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales we wanted to pass on the word, and the savings!

Here's the list so far:

CoPilot Live USA for iPhone: $2.99
CoPilot Live North America for iPhone: $9.99
CoPilot Live HD North America app for iPad: $19.99 -[Co-Pilot on iTunes link]

Apple's Black Friday Sale goes live in Australia: Save on iPad, iPod touch

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Nov 25, 2010 a 11:33 am

Want to save money n a brand new iPad or iPod touch during Apple's annual Black Friday sale? Well if Australia is any indication, you're in luck. iPad is showing a AUS$51 reduction across the line, iPod touch from AUS$25 to $51 depending on model, and iPod nano from AUS$15 to $25 depending on model.

Apple holding Black Friday online shopping event

By Andrew Wray, Wednesday, Nov 24, 2010 a 8:29 am

Apple Online and Apple Retail have only one sale a year -- Black Friday, held the day after Thanksgiving -- and Apple has already got a helpful reminder posted on their website:

Come back to the Apple Online Store the day after Thanksgiving for a special one-day-only holiday shopping event. You'll find dozens of great iPad, iPod and Mac gifts for everyone on your list.