∞ iPhone 4S pre-orders top 1 million in 24 hours

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Apple’s iPhone 4S has broken the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 set by the iPhone 4. According to Apple, the iPhone 4S has been pre-ordered over one million times in just 24 hours.

“We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been the most for any new product that Apple has ever launched and we are thrilled that customers love iPhone 4S as much as we do.”

Apple said that iPhone 4S will be available at all 245 Apple retail stores in the US beginning at 8 a.m. local time on Friday, October 14. Every customer who buys an iPhone 4S at an Apple retail store will be offered free Personal Setup service, helping them customize their iPhone 4S by setting up email, showing them new apps from the App Store, and basically helping them get everything running.


  • Anonymous

    Too bad sales were so terrible on such a weak and limited device.

    • Anonymous

      Imagine if the phone were good enough to impress the technorati! They could have sold dozens more!

  • http://twitter.com/eric_goodwin Eric Goodwin

    But how can this be? So many tech bloggers called the iPhone 4S a disappointment! LOL. 

  • http://www.jphotog.com Hrunga Zmuda

    But… but… but…

    …people are disappointed! It’s already a failure! 

    How dare Apple make pundits look like they don’t know what they’re talking about!

    • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

      At some point these pundits have to implode if they adhere to the laws of physics, right?

      • Anonymous

        They have to produce an ever-increasing amount of hot air to counteract it.

  • http://twitter.com/VGISoftware Daniel Swanson

    Buying the iPhone 4S in the wake of the 4 is kinda like buying a modern Dodge Charger with the Hemi instead of the six. Same form factor, but a totally different car.

    The 4S is gonna be awesome compared to my 3GS.

    • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

      Hell yes it will.

  • Anonymous

    Made the same point to coworkers. Engineers. They were discussing these same sales figures, and the question was always “why so many? I thought this wasn’t that much better than the 4?” I countered that they don’t understand this at all. It doesn’t have to be that much better than the 4. It has to be much better than the 3GS.

  • http://www.acid-product.co.uk Ian Davies

    Like Darby said: “What a fuck­ing disappointment.”

  • Anonymous

    Well, I have a coworker here at the office (an engineer) that I think epitomizes the disappointed crowd. He is disappointed in the lack of 4G (he’s not hung up on marketing per se; he was reallyhoping for HSPA+). He’s actually disappointed in the lack of a new design, which surprised me. And he believes what others have written here and there…that this 1 million is the lowest hanging fruit; that the phone is an inherent disappointment.

    I feel that his disappointment is justified if those things are important to him, but that I feel he’s not at all representative of most of the market (heck, he’s not universally representative of all tech commenters, even). He feels otherwise, that his acquaintances, even the non-tech kind, are all disappointed.I’m on the other side. I guess I’d have loved it if it were HSPA+, sure, but I *love* that the design didn’t change. I’m *extremely* happy about the improvements. I’ve waited two years, and this is definitely worth the wait. To those who would say that over the next two years LTE will be widespread and I’ll be missing out, well, two years hence I’ll have the next version, which is probably faster. I don’t need to maximize throughput, I just want improvement over time. Heck, two years ago I was using and EDGE iPhone. I’m plenty happy with the improvement since then.

    I’m very excited to get my new iPhone sometime in the next few weeks!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SXWVZZKCIZ3SG4FIVFQIDR3WYU Kitkat

    If AT&T claimed 600K of the 1000K, how many did Verizon or Sprint pre-sell?