Apple iPhone 4 sees sales of 600,000 in a single day
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 17 June 2010, 15:00 IST   |    2 Comments
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Apple iPhone 4 sees sales of 600,000 in a single day
Bangalore: Apple iPhone 4 model, which has gone on sales in five countries, sees sales of 600,000 units, in a single day and the websites crash in the US and UK.In Germany, demand for the new model, which was only unveiled by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs at the start of the month, is running 10 times ahead of that for last year's model, the iPhone 3GS, reported Deutsche Telekom. By comparison, when the iPhone 3GS went on sale last year, 1million were sold in its first three days. But that debuted in eight countries, whereas the iPhone 4 has gone on sale only in five. Apple has apologized to people who tried to order the phone and gave up in frustration, saying demand was far higher than it expected. "We hope that they will try again once the iPhone 4 is in stock." In the UK, where Apple is offering the phone without a contract through its online store, Apple's website crashed as people tried to order it. And in the U.S. where it is only available with a contract from AT&T, the telephone company's website froze as it tried to cope with an avalanche of orders each of which had to be verified on its own servers. That also led to problems in which some customers saw details of other peoples' accounts a reminder of the flaw exposed by a security group last week in which hundreds of thousands of Apple iPad users' emails were stolen via weak security on AT&T's site. As a result of the heavy demand Apple has had to push back the delivery date for phones ordered online, and on Wednesday AT&T suspended orders, citing "unexpectedly high demand". Apple said "it was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated, resulting in many order and approval system malfunctions."

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