Apple: One million iPhones sold, 10 million App Store downloads in first weekend
Despite the outages, shortages, and related hand-wringing associated with last Friday's iPhone 3G launch and Thursday's release of the iPhone 2.0 firmware, Apple says there were nevertheless 10 million downloads from its new App Store in its first weekend of existence.
And those long lines? A total of one million iPhone 3G units were sold. The millionth phone was sold on Sunday.
"The App Store is a grand slam, with a staggering 10 million applications downloaded in just three days," Apple overlord Steve Jobs said in a release Monday. "Developers have created some extraordinary applications, and the App Store can wirelessly deliver them to every iPhone and iPod touch user instantly."
And on the phone sales, Jobs said, "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."
There are currently about 800 applications available for download in the App Store, over 200 of which are free; at launch, there were about 550.

Congrats to all the owners!
Well, Apple did not design this blog's software. They may not have designed the software on their discussion boards, but at least you can edit posts easier than you can with this one.
It only took the time to grab a quick snack at the food court to get my phone working. If you are having trouble with activation today, check to make sure you have the most current version of iTunes running. If you have trouble after that, go back to the
Apple store. They will have you running in half a sneeze.
Probably, but I don't see numbers sold by country in the press release http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/07/14iphone.html
this year, they sold 1 million. a net increase of 300k in the first weekend. it was released in 21 countries.
obivously it's not off to as good of a start as the media outlets would have you believe. in reality, it was outsold by the samsung instinct.