Apple Sells 525,000 iPhones in Three Days

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Apple and AT&T score big with iPhone launch

Everyone knew that the iPhone was going to be big from the moment it was announced in early January. Apple CEO Steve Jobs hailed the device as the ultimate in mobile communications given that it could function as a phone, a mobile Internet device and as an iPod.

As the months progressed, the hype mushroomed even though the iPhone lacked a user-replaceable battery, physical keyboard, expansion slot, voice dialing, A2DP, MMS, iChat, flash support, copy and paste ability and video recording -- not to mention that the iPhone was tied solely to AT&T.

It appears that all of the minuses stacked against the iPhone weren't enough to phase buyers who lined up days in advance to purchase the latest "it device" from Cupertino. Not even the $499 (4GB) and $599 (8GB) price tags were enough to keep Apple from selling around 525,000 iPhones from 6:00 PM Friday evening through close of business on Sunday.

Nearly all of AT&T's stores were depleted of iPhone stock by Saturday whereas Apple's retail stores are currently faring much better (you can check iPhone availability here).

Apple's iPhone launch didn't go off glitch free, however. Many users complained of activation problems with iPhone. The iPhone can be activated through iTunes and the steady rush of users scrambling to activate their phones overloaded AT&T's servers.

"We are working on any issues on an individual basis with customers who were impacted," said Michael Coe, a representative for AT&T.

AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel noted that a "small percentage" of customers were having activation issues. "Our first priority is to get them up and rolling as quickly as we can," Spiegel continued.

For its part in the matter, an Apple spokesman simply said "There are a small percentage of iPhone customers who have had a less than perfect activation experience."
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That only shows how brand and popularity fascinated people are.

Tell me one feature , except for the touch screen features that is so distinctively ahead of what today's phone has

... lack of video recording , i still wonder why didnt they integrate that option. thats the weirdest thing i would every hear.. how could they do it ?
 
no MMS,A2DP and no video recording? this is crazy! the only thing this phone has is a touch screen. i see nothin else extra-ordinary.

hehe.nice one Ank1t.
 
As the months progressed, the hype mushroomed even though the iPhone lacked a user-replaceable battery, physical keyboard, expansion slot, voice dialing, A2DP, MMS, iChat, flash support, copy and paste ability and video recording -- not to mention that the iPhone was tied solely to AT&T.
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Thats a lot of minus points :mad:

add to that no setting of mp3 as ringtone and
some more things might be there[??????]
as mentioned in some posts on TE.

This is ridiculous , i mean what the hell did apple had in mind when they created the iphone. :mad:

So iphone is nothing but much hyped device with some gr8 gui but lacking a lot of key features , i hope they
release a firmware update so that the guys who have even got the iphone now might have all the negatives
mentioned above fixed , why shud ppl wait for iphone 2.0 , why shud iphone 1.0 users suffer with so many
features stripped off.

Apple u dissapointed me a lot. :no:
 
Quad Master said:
This is ridiculous , i mean what the hell did apple had in mind when they created the iphone. :mad:
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Same thing they had in mind when they made the iPod. 100% profits and world domination :eek:hyeah:

True it aint got anything! But think of the show off value.. Imagine this guy telling his friends

".. Yeah my (i)Phone rocks! Its not got a user-replaceable battery, physical keyboard, expansion slot, voice dialing, A2DP, MMS, iChat, flash support, copy and paste ability and video recording.. Neat right?!"
 
Apple now thinking now why dont we come up with stone and too start fooling peeps..after all ppl pay for peebels from others..than whats wrong we do the same???(not motto pebel..lol)
 
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