Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jun 2009 21:43 UTC
Apple has issued a statement in which is said it has sold over 1 million iPhones during the first three days of the device being on sale. "Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning," said Steve Jobs, "With over 50,000 applications available from Apple's revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever." In addition, version 3.0 of the iPhone has been downloaded 6 million times. This also happens to be the first careful official word from Jobs since he took medical leave earlier this year.
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2005-07-13
A bit abrasive, but I actually agree with your point.
I would be interested in seeing a breakdown of how many phones went to existing iPhone customers, versus bringing in new customers. I suspect the number of churned customers to be fairly high, which is fairly remarkable in itself, but any real growth in the market will rely on finding new customers.
Like a good little lemming, I picked up a 3GS on Friday, despite my 3G being barely 10 months old. I have no doubt that Apple was kicking in some serious incentives and rebates to the carriers for encouraging upgrades, because I was able to acquire a 32GB 3GS for less than I paid for my 16GB 3G, which itself was acquired under a special upgrade promo despite being months away from my upgrade period. In both cases I received "new" customer pricing, but for the 3G I also had to pay a $50 "admin fee" for the upgrade. Not so for the 3GS.
Apple has to be picking up part of the bill for this, I know my carrier well enough (Rogers) to know that they wouldn't be paying all of that subsidy (2 upgrades for their most expensive phone within a 10 month period) out of their own pocket. Although my monthly wireless spend is relatively high, it's not outrageous, and certainly not enough for them to have even absorbed the subsidy from my original 3G between then and now.
So a new 32GB 3GS for $299 CDN, requiring only a one-year extension to my contract with a carrier I don't envision leaving anyways. The performance improvements and decent video recording alone justify it for me, if only as a bit of an extravegant luxury. I could probably sell my existing 3G for at least that, and wind up cost neutral.
And I have no doubt that when the next phone comes out at this time next year, I'll be receiving the same deal and will likely do the same thing.
I could list any number of negative points about the iPhone, but frankly, it is the best handset I've used for my day-to-day requirements, which to me is the driving factor. And until a handset arrives that trumps that experience for me, I'll probably remain on the treadmill, good little lemming that I am.
Now, if they would just port iTunes to linux...