“Some time in the next week more than 6 million iPhone 3Gs will be in people’s hands around the world. What that means is that the second generation device has outsold the original iPhone just seven weeks after going on sale. They actually may already have done so,” Michael Arrington writes for TechCrunch.
“It took Apple nearly a year to sell 6 million first generation iPhones. A million 3Gs were sold in the first weekend the device was on sale—it took Apple 74 days to sell a million of the first gen iPhones,” Arrington writes.
“According to our sources, Foxconn continues to build iPhones for Apple at the rate of 800,000 units per week, with production ramping up as fast as possible. (Businesweek is hearing similar numbers from its sources—150,000 a day). Apple is on pace to sell more than 40 million of the devices in the next year,” Arrington writes.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Eugenio” for the heads up.]
And people laughed when Jobs stated that Apple would sell ten million iPhones in a year….
Damn it, I’m a minority now. Where is Jessie Jackson! I’m disenfranchised!
The 1stGen iPhone is still superior. Better looks, build quality, battery life. Thinner. Having a consistent signal. Some of us (like R2) are still prepay and aren’t tied to a contract. And now with a 1stGen iPhone you get to be part of an exclusive limited edition club since they’ll never make anymore. It’s like owning a Bugatti Veyron.
iPhone classic = Bugatti Veyron
iPhone 3G = Toyota Camry
Interesting point “Tiger Leopard”, all the “analysts” said that Apple wouldn’t be able to sell 10 million by the end of 08….. WRONG.
@R2
Agreed, i have played with a a 3g iPhone and concluded that it not worth buying. With the availability of new software (albeit buggy) on my 1st generation phone I feel as though I have a new phone and have no need to get another. (yet)
So that means 12 million sold — two million more than Jobs said, and four months early???
Snap!
I sold my 1st gen to my future brother in law, and I must admit I still think it’s a better phone than my 3G. The build quality is much much better than the 3G
That’s what happens when you offer your product to many more markets than the first go round….
@ R2
Ok I’ll buy the
iPhone classic = Bugatti Veyron
but, really
iPhone 3G = Toyota Camry
More like;
iPhone 3G = Mercedes – Benz E – Class
Popular all over the world a bit more then a C – Class and not the S – Class, the E – Class is the happy middle for price, performance, luxury and engineering.
I am still happy with my 1st gen. That 2.2 software made it a whole new piece of hardware. This iPhone will never be sold. It will go into my own private computer museum (sometimes called the “graveyard”).
The imminent massive recall grows larger each day.
got both use both tricked 1gen to work with other sim will keep both 1 gen better build but 2 gen still very good role on 3 gen with isight screen n few more bits n bobs
My 1st Gen is backed in classy Aluminum
3G’s are El Cheapo plastic
The fact of the matter is Apple will never sell 10M iPhones. They stopped making them so how can they ever reach the goal?
I sure they may sell 10M iPhone 3Gs next month, but it’s my technicality, my rules. YOU LOSE!
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I love my new iPhone. When I’m on 2G, I often quit before page loads. Not so on 3G. Haven’t had any problems with mine, not even the Safari crashes some have mentioned.
Say whatever you want, but without GPS, 3G, the slick unibody, the 1G iPhone is great, but also missing some really great things.
Anyway, when in need, a Camry over a Bugatti with only 3 wheels any day.
Nah, the E-Class is a pretty nice, classy, reliable vehicle.
Apple threw quality control out the window with the iPhone 3G.
It was different with the iPhone classic. The production process was slower and smoother. Soothing music was played in the facilities matched with a higher class of worker that talked to the iPhone as it ripened through the various stages of production. “You are special, you are wonderful, you will be the best phone money can buy” they’d say to an incomplete 1stGen iPhone as they installed the capacitive touch panel. iPhone classic assemblers were gentler, massaging the aluminum backplate after it was attached. They took pride in their work and dreamed of someday owning the luxurious machinery they helped construct.
Now Apple’s just slapping ’em together as fast as they can with the cheapest labor money can buy. No infantile 3G network can make up for that.
@ericdano
Doing you a favor by looking for your brain?
@Sixvodkas
Yah but the plastic 3Gs run at 3G speed.
“Yah but the plastic 3Gs run at 3G speed.”
Yeah, where you can actually find it.
AT&T;didn’t even start to seriously build that network until like a year ago. Do you know how long it takes to expand 3G coverage sufficiently? Ask Verizon and Sprint, they’ve been at it for the better part of this decade and still aren’t satisfied.
Apple builds iPhone 3Gs at a faster rate than AT&T;can build their network. The phone is wreaking havoc on them. Before the iPhone 3G all they had to deal with were low quantities of handsets like the Razr V3xx and Samsung BlackJack with their crappy barely used browsers. Now Apple’s dumping millions upon millions of gigabyte consuming iPhone 3G customers onto a network that can hardly stand on its own.
A $10 monthly increase (not including text messages) and contract extension for 3G that’s not even all that much faster and rarely available? No thanks. My thinner and better built iPhone classic will do just fine.
R2 you are a moron, the same company manufactured both. Some people should be castrated.
@R2
what the hell do you mean. Sitting in your closet holding tight to ur precious? gps? no,Where is your coset by the way
@Uh Oh:
You must be referring to some supposed hardware problem due to 3G reception issues. You obviously missed the story about the new, just released (in CA) 3G Blackberry Bold, which is having problems like the iPhone 3G only the Bold uses a different chipset than the iPhone. Looks like 3G problems are a network issue, not hardware. No real surprise, since many 3G networks are fairly new and haven’t had the volume of traffic that they are experiencing with the iPhone.
“Some people should be castrated.”
jarrettdailynews, what do my (admittedly large) testicles have to do with the cheaply made iPhone 3G being an inferior device to the iPhone classic?
The new iPhone 3G is an improvement from the last one made.
Users of the original iPhone can suffer and whine now with the given reality.
oh yeah, the 1st gen is def comparable to the Bugatti Veyron! haha!
I would never say that iPhone 2.5G:iPhone 3G::Bugatti Veyron:Toyota Camry. What are you smoking?