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.

[lmasanti]

It is like "the Second Coming of Steve" to Apple!
Congrats to all the owners!

[wratbatblue]

Oh, yeah, and by the way, to all you who waited hours in line to buy, then waited for hours at home, clicking in iTunes to get your new phone activated....whatever. I got mine.

[wratbatblue]

Oh, yeah, and by the way, to all you who waited hours in line to buy, then waited for hours at home, clicking in iTunes to get your new phone activated....whatever. I got mine.

[ballmerisanape]

this is what happens when you develop and deliver a great user experience. People are tired of "good enough" user interfaces.

[wratbatblue]

Sorry for the double post. Wish there were a way to delete one of them!

[Perry_Clease]

"Sorry for the double post. Wish there were a way to delete one of them!"

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.

[jcwestbrook]

Is that 1 million sold have anything to do with being on sale in 21 countries?

[ralfthedog]

Like most problems in the computer industry, the activation issues were a bit overblown. My Apple store gave the option of moving to a second line and activating in store or taking the phone home to activate.

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.

[Perry_Clease]

"Is that 1 million sold have anything to do with being on sale in 21 countries?"

Probably, but I don't see numbers sold by country in the press release http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/07/14iphone.html

[mreiher]

Congrats to Apple for a huge hit with the App store and the new 3G.! This is a huge change in mobile computing... things are going to change like crazy now... this will be fun! Sort of like computing back in the late 80's all over again.

[sting7k]

Maybe it could have been more if apple didn't horde all the stock for themselves and left AT&T stores sold out for days within minutes. Both Apple stores near me (both over an hour away) have them in stock. While the 3 AT&T stores in my city have no idea when they will get more of them, same with the dozen or so stores that would be on the way to going to one of those Apple stores.

[revtarded]

last year, they sold 700k phones in the first weekend. the iphone was released in the USA only.

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.