Unlike some wild estimates that had the numbers up to 1,000,000 units sold, it appears Apple only sold 270,000 of the next–generation cell phone in the first weekend of sales. This is not, however, a bad thing, as Apple expected to sell its 1,000,000th unit in the next year. It still appears that they will meet that expectation.
What nobody was expecting was the other, non–iPhone news. During the Apple Financial Results conference call, they reported record revenue and profit. This in a period when iPhone sales wouldn't even register (as they only sold in three reporting days of the quarter). The big news of the day was that they shipped 1,764,000 Macintosh computers — the most in a quarter, ever.
They also sold 9,815,000 iPods in the quarter. Compare that to the relative poor market penetration of the Zune, only recently selling 1,000,000 units. Both sales of Macs and iPods are well over the sales from this time last year.
The goods elsewhere:
