Jeff Campbell
06-22-2009, 06:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/06/iphone-3g-s-launch-likely-to-beat-analyst-expectations.ars' target='_blank'>http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...xpectations.ars</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Despite shorter lines than last year, two weeks of pre-orders and higher than expected sales volume may have Apple reaching or exceeding the 1 million unit sales mark it hit during the first weekend of the iPhone 3G's launch. That would beat analyst expectations of about a half a million units."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1245630850.usr105634.jpg" /></em></p><p>We <a href="http://www.applethoughts.com/news/show/94175/sales-of-iphone-3g-s-predicted-to-top-500k-this-weekend.html" target="_blank">noted</a> earlier this week that the analyst from Piper Jaffray, Gene Munster, predicted that this past weekend the sales would probably not be more than 500,000 units due to a few factors such as less countries selling it, not enough of a change, etc. However AT&T reported that it had pre-sold hundreds of thousands of units here in the US and Apple, I'm sure, also had high pre-sale numbers. So coupling that with the sales from Best Buy and Wal-Mart, it was expected that sales would beat projections. Â*</p><p>And today's <a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/06/22iphone.html" target="_blank">news release</a> from Apple confirms the 500,000 was a low estimate, very low in fact. According to Apple, they sold over 1 million iPhone 3G S models for the weekend ending Sunday June 21st.Â*</p><p>Â*</p>