Apple has officially announced that they have sold one million iPhone 4S units in 24 hours, which beats down the previous 600,000-unit record set by the iPhone 4. Insane. Phil Schiller is “blown away”.
We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been the most for any new product that Apple has ever launched and we are thrilled that customers love iPhone 4S as much as we do.
I’m sure you are Phil, I’m sure you are. [Apple]
markd
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 7:04 AMI wish them all the best success, as I would Samsung or any other technology company that creates equally engaging products.
I’m sure my sentiments will be shared by the many rational and informed commenters here at Gizmodo.
NotoriousR
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:31 AMNonsense! This is the internet! We hate on anything popular/from a big empire, regardless of the quality!
In terms of the presells, I’m not surprised. Half the people here at work have iPhone 3GS’s and their contract is up, so they’ll be upgrading to the 4S. I imagine this would the case for quite a few people.
Corey
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Prashy
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 7:42 PM+1
Number
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 1:45 PMWhen I oererdd mine (64g white) from AT&T site it gave me the choice to select Unlimited iPhone 4S data plan with no problem. Of course I am a Grandfathered Unlimited data customer.
warcroft
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 7:23 AMSee? Even after people bitch about how disappointed they are with the 4S it still sells bucket loads!
What is wrong with people?
Id understand if it was an impressive piece of phone, like the 4 was over the 3, but have done nothing but complain about the 4S.
I dont get it.
Jackson Bison
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:18 AMI totally don’t get it either – like the iPhone 4 was a leap (comparing Apples to Apples here), but the 4S is pretty lame, considering what’s out there from other manufacturers (looking at you Samsung).
The truth is, Steve has created an amazing product – not judged by its advanced technical specifications, but by its ability to woo millions without actually doing anything.
z3d
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:42 AMthere are comments like this each time the iphone is released. if there is a good product, people buy it. you can sell one generation of phone on the back of the previous, but to do it into the 5th generation means actual customer satisfaction must pretty effing high. it’s not like every product apple pushes goes crazy because of the hype. (apple tv, mac computers, etc).
the iphone 4 wasn’t a leap, it just looked different. it was only a modest processor and camera upgrade. the screen was upgraded but that screen is still pretty damn good 1 year down the track. The 3gs to this day is a great phone.
Ben
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:09 AMHere’s the thing. It’s a new iphone. It completely doesn’t matter what the spec’s are, apple fans are going to buy it in droves.
Such is the power of the cult of apple. That’s not meant as a disparaging remark, but a commentary of the fanatical nature of a lot of apple fans. Every company out there wishes their users were as fanatical as some apple fans.
z3d
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 11:36 AMHere’s the thing. It actually DOESN’T matter what the specs are. You are right. It was always going to sell well, but that is because people love their previous iOS products. They just trust they’ll get an even better experience with the new one. Which they will with the 4S. I personally had a really shit experience with my original galaxy S and then my galaxy tab. I feel I wasted a lot of money on them. The specs of the galaxy S were better than the iphone 4 but I hated it. I only kept it for about 2 or 3 months. I use my phones/tablets for critical work related things so it really matters whether they are reliable or even capable of a particular function. people aren’t JUST getting caught up in the hype, there is a hell of a lot of actual substance in addition to the hype.
Johnny P
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 9:38 AMSince Apple have normally released their iphones in June/July there is now a 4-5 month backlog of people with 3G/3GS handsets out of contract who have been holding out for the new iphone. Apple have basically said hey 3G/3GS owners you can keep the same great apple phone but now its heaps faster and a better camera and you keep all the apps you know and love. These consumers know that all they have to do to set up their new iphone is plug it into their computer open itunes and press sync.
Peter
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 9:54 AMSheep just getting to a new paddock. That is all.
Penmonicus
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:36 AMI love the hate. I really do. Were people so brand/OS-loyal before the iPhone? Maybe we were. Maybe Nokia users would give crap to the Ericsson crew back in the day.
But the fact of the matter is this: I got a 3GS before there was anything else like it. It blew me away. It was such a completely different, disruptive gadget. Now, two years later, the headphone input is a little damaged, and a new version is out. I can buy the new phone, take it home, sync it to my computer, and it will be just like my old [current] phone, but better.
Why would I change horses mid-stream? You’re asking me to ditch all my apps – my saved games, my downloaded comics that I’ve PAID for – for a different device whose numbers are higher in some respects?
I recently stumbled onto the game Battleheart and told my RPG-loving friends to get it, that they’d love it. After half an hour of screwing around trying to download it via Wi-Fi on their phones, then on the PC and sync it, we discovered that the Galaxy S just doesn’t like some apps.
“Just doesn’t like some apps”?! No thanks. If an app won’t work on the iPhone, it doesn’t make it into the store.
That’s worth the extra money to me.
James
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:40 AMJust waiting for wsDK_II to come in and tell us his delusions of how apple are irrelevant now.
To all the haters……. how come people don’t stand around waiting for the next Android phone? How is it that apple can build up a fever pitch over a damn phone and no other companies can? They do something right and you droids hate them for it.
Steve
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:32 PMArgumentum ad populum.
Gerard
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 11:01 AMI’ve grown tired of reading the crap you lot write in these comments everytime there is an article about IOS or Apple. You forget that 99.9% of iphone consumers are real people. They are not fanboys. They are not IT workers, they are not tossers with nothing better to do than argue over whose telephone has the biggest cock. The reason they are buying Apple products is that Apple produce simple, elegant devices that do not require you to be a geek whinging because his phone doesnt have ssh built-in to the GUI.
I have been an IT professinal for over 25 years. I do not use apple products in my professional capacity, but I tell every person I can to buy Apple. They work, they seldom fail. And they dont have to bother me with their stupid tech problems. They can just ask anyone on the street for help, because tehy are that simple to use.
You lot are not part of that 99.9%. So stop judging them. You are in the minority. Go network your blowup doll with your Android and set it to vibrate.
z3d
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 11:48 AMI agree except the bit about iOS having less capabilities for nerds. The Android market place is really quite behind with regards to business/techy apps. there are many things it can’t do only because no-one has written the app yet or it’s buggy or not supported on your actual device.
fanboi
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 12:40 PM+1 Gerard! This site is always fanboys this and fanboys that and idiot apple users…
As I have heard a few people say recently “I am an iPhone user and didn’t know who Steve Jobs was till he died.” Tell me how that makes them fanboys and not just customers buying a product that they (or their friends and family, the biggest marketers any company has) have had a good experince with.
boc
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 2:43 PM@Gerard
Wow, hypocrisy at it’s finest. Thanks for showing everyone just how much of a fanboy you are and how judgmental you are as well. Well done, you are a winner.
James
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 4:05 PM^^ not sure if serious ^^
If serious, then boc needs help. Nothing was hypocritical and seeing things requires medical assistance
James
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 4:02 PMA lot of people have the misconception that Apple “dumb down” their products.
Actually, its what you call “making it intuitive”
A professional can do professional things with it OR even my mother can use one, and that’s saying a lot.
markd
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 6:06 PMExactly right James, there is this weird thing where nerds get really angry when other people don’t care about the same things they do. “They like how it LOOKS?” “They could have spent less money on something that has 8845 MORE Kb of Random Access Memory??”
It’d be like if people that are really really into car engines got really outraged when people bought a Toyota Camry and didnt care about how its variable valve timing system worked.
Edith
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 9:09 PMRating I oederrd this case because it looked to be the best of those available early and, with Prime, I could get it overnight. Mine fits my iPhone 4 quite well and provides a nice grippy surface so I have less fear of dropping the phone when I remove it from my belt case. The bezel on the front raises the screen above any flat surface I lay it on, so no fear of scratching the screen. It has good, ample openings for access to all controls and ports vs. some older iPhone 3GS cases which covered the volume control and on-off switch. The only downside, and I expected it, is that it covers the beautiful glass back of the iPhone 4. For that reason I may prefer the Apple Bumpers I’ve oederrd when they arrive in two weeks or so.
Wok
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 7:25 PMWait 24 months next time and get 2 million…
Steve
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:36 PMLast I checked, the IP4 reached half that number of pre-orders in the same amount of time on a single carrier (AT&T), not 3 (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint). This is on top of the expected hype (for better or worse) generated by Steve Jobs’s death, that put Apple’s name even further into the spotlight.
The iPhone 4S is getting the pre-order numbers we all expected it to get. The question whether this demand will be sustained for the next 12 months.
Kyron
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:17 PMI dont get all the constant fights on every iphone related story? Did the iphone commit genocide, poison an orphanage or rig an election? Can’t it and every other similar device out there just be owned by whoever decides to buy them because they wanted to buy it? If any device truly sucked it would fail in the market.
Im interested in the galaxy s2 and the 4s because Im coming off my 3gs contract. Im torn between both choices because they are both great phones. I just don’t get all the hating out there for these inanimate objects.