There seem to be a lot of people surprised at that number but I think a good percentage of that will be people with 3GS's who were on 2 year contracts and up for renewal and then the rest are mainly people who were waiting for the ip5 (as a new purchase or who do 1 year contracts) and who thought oh well might as well get it anyway than wait another year. Pretty decent for a phone that got a bad first day reception. Be interesting to see the numbers for the nexus one.
A lot of people keep saying its cause of the 3GS. Yet most seem to forget it was all the 3G 2 year contracts that upgraded to the 4. Spec wise 3G to 4 was bigger than 3GS to 4S.
The 3GS was where the iPhone received a massive up take of users so there is no surprise that the 4S will go through the roof. There would be plenty of 3GS users that have been holding off for the upgrade, I know my contract finished a few months back now.
wabbit wrote:Speaking of the first 24 hours of pre-orders;
iPhone 4 = 600,000
iPhone 4S = 1M.
But I wonder what the percentage breakdown of new vs existing iPhone owners are. It just may well be because of the momentum iPhones have gotten more people are purchasing them for the first time..
So as I guessed, because I wasn't home Friday, they took it back but brought it out again on Saturday and it arrived about half nine. Spent the rest of the morning playing around with the settings, getting some apps on and sorting out my number transfer.
Very impressed with the screen resolution. It's super sharp.
I wonder if Siri will turn out to be a bit of a novelty. Most things you ask it you can probably find as or almost as quick yourself. It's a bit limited at the moment as the uk version doesn't have businesses or maps on it yet so things like asking it for a local pizza place returns a message that it can't do that yet. And although you can say 'phone my mum' and it'll dial it, it's not really THAT much faster than just tapping the phone icon and finding the number that way. Interesting idea though.
Things like Siri and its Android counterpart would be more useful when driving than anything else. Like you said Kev, just as easy/quick to open the phone book and pick the person manually.
