Apple: Weekend iPhone 3G sales hit one million
Published: 15 Jul 2008 10:37 BST
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 said there were nevertheless 10 million downloads from its new App Store in its first weekend of existence.
The company also said 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 chief executive Steve Jobs said in a statement on Monday.
"Developers have created some extraordinary applications, and the App Store can wirelessly deliver them to every iPhone and iPod Touch user instantly," said Jobs.
Regarding 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.
Credit: Apple: One million iPhones sold, 10 million App Store downloads in first weekend from CNET News
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