1 million iPhone 3Gs sold opening weekend, over 10 million Apps downloaded from App Store
Apple has had some big days this past week with MobileMe’s launch (no matter how inconsistent it was), iPhone 2.0 and the App Store going live early, and of course iPhone 3G’s launch (even with those pesky activation problems). Apple’s announcement today proves how big this weekend really was: they sold 1 million iPhone 3Gs this past weekend (Friday to Sunday) and over 10 million applications were downloaded from the App Store (now containing over 800 applications). Apple only sold 250,000 phones for the original iPhone’s launch, however that was only in the US and this was in 21 countries. But it took Apple a total of 74 days to sell 1 million iPhones the first time around, so there could be arguments about which launch sold more (we’ll need US statistics to make a true comparison). Considering some stores still have lines now, iPhone 3G must be doing fantastically well.
