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BY TRACY PFEIFFER
ANCHOR BLAKE HANSON
Despite lukewarm analyst responses to Apple’s unveiling of the iPhone 4S, the not-iPhone-5 device is reportedly set to destroy previous sales records.
Here’s KPNX.
“AT&T says the latest Apple iPhone is a big success. The telecommunications giant said that it received more than 200,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4S within the first 12 hours, making it the most successful iPhone launch the company has ever had.”
Apple’s current iPhone sales record is held by the original iPhone 4, which sold 1.7 million devices sold in just three days.
And media can’t seem to find enough ways to explain the demand for the 4S.
As HalfPeeled Apple reports...
“Last year, Apple saw 600,000 iPhone 4 pre-orders in the first day for all carriers in the US, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK. This year, you have three [U.S.] carriers to choose from, so the pre-orders and sales are probably around or over 600,000 by now.”
Reports say Apple, Verizon and Sprint haven’t released their online pre-order numbers, but some of the models list a delivery date after the slated October 14th release.
Basically, analysts suggest that means they, too, have sold out. (Video: Apple)
CNNMoney reports besides adding carriers, Apple has also beefed up its international offerings. Last year, pre-orders were available in just five countries, but...
“This year it added Australia and Canada to the mix. Six of those countries had run out of iPhones for pre-order by 6:55 a.m. ... Friday. The U.S. ran out 12 hours later. ...Two weeks after the Oct. 14 launch, the iPhone 4S will go on sale in 22 more countries... Last year it was more than a month after the June 24 launch before Apple expanded the iPhone 4 rollout, and then to only 18 more countries.”
All this, after some tech issues in the ordering process, according to CNET.
“Despite the promise of a 12:01 a.m. ... starting time for preorder sales from Apple and its carrier partners, Apple's store experienced intermittent errors shortly after that deadline.... AT&T took even longer to begin offering preorders, and some would-be Sprint customers reported delays of two hours trying to place their preorders.”
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