Filed under: WIRELESS | Tags: 3G, App Store, Apple, Handhelds, iPhone, iPhone 2.0, iPhone 3G, Smartphones
Despite a few hiccups and stores running out of inventory, Apple was able to sell one million 3G iPhones
class=”snap_preview_icon”> worldwide across 21 countries its first three days on sale. During that same time, owners of both the new and old iPhone were able to download 10 million apps from the newly launched App Store on iTunes, despite major problems with the iPhone 2.0 software update disabling many people’s phones temporarily on Friday. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/14/the-mobile-web-is-here-apple-sells-one-million-3g-iphones-first-weekend-ten-million-iphone-apps-downloaded 7/14)
I would highlight the upgrade problem while placing this problem into context. Many users were locked out of their phones on Friday as the universe of iPhone users (or at least most of them) attempted to download the software. I’m not as concerned about activation problems as I am about this. You will activate an iPhone once in a lifetime but upgrade the software on the phone several times. I don’t want to fear losing phone service every time an upgrade is available. For more, see Techcrunch’s post from Friday. The context: Apple sold 10 million apps and 1 million 3G iPhones over the weekend. Safe to say, the profit from both of these in one weekend is pretty impressive.
The secret to finding the perfect parking spot in congested cities is usually just a matter of luck. But drivers here will get some help from an innocuous tab of plastic that will soon be glued to the streets as sensed by their smartphones. This fall, San Francisco will test 6,000 of its 24,000 metered parking spaces in the nation’s most ambitious trial of a wireless sensor network that will announce which of the spaces are free at any moment. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/business/12newpark.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=parking%20spots%20san%20francisco&st=cse&oref=slogin 7/12)
This is ingenious. As soon as this is fully launched, this will most surely be my most favorite app helping me to assert superiority yet again using the brilliance of my iPhone. Awesome.
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