Apple sells a record 9 million phones in a weekend

A tale of two companies, part two in a way. We expected that Apple would set a record with the number of phones sold over the weekend, we did not quite expect 9 million units, the consensus was around 7-8. But I guess that is good, no, very good. Just as good is the fact that over 200 million downloads of the new iOS have taken place so far, out of 700 million odd devices. Remember that not all devices can be updated, only from the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 onwards. And, more importantly for the stock holders, in telling the market that they had sold more phones than anticipated, their guidance was raised towards the top end of the range. Prompting broker upgrades. Sigh, how often does one see that. The smartest folks on the street are having to flip and flop, because their time frames when producing these reports are 12 months out. They are expected to be miracle workers with rudimentary instrumentation.


I am pretty sure that you might of heard of the four year old known as Jack who hated the new iOS so much that he cried. That YouTube clip was seen 1 million times plus. I am going to let you in on a little secret. I upgraded my handset and then my eldest daughter had a look at it. She is 8. So double Jack's age. She was so amazed and she went on about the upgrade for 2 minutes. I had not told her what I had done. She kept saying, wow dad, what have you done with your phone, it is so amazing! I guess that if I put that up on Youtube and then told everyone on your social networks, perhaps I would have got 50 hits at most. So there. Humans tend to focus on the bad, rather than the good, it is in our DNA.