Handhelds

1,400,000 iPhones Sold Since Launch

Apple draws the line and looks on its results

By Elena Balan, Communications News Editor

26th of October 2007, 09:41 GMT

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1,400,000 iPhones. Is that a lot, or a reasonable result?

More than 1,1 million iPhones have been sold over the past quarter, adding up to those that hit the market in the first days of the phone's release to reach a sum of almost 1,4 million such devices. That's a great number, although some even more demanding people will definitely claim that Apple could have done

even better than that.

It's been a stormy period for Apple, since the release of their iPhone. A great number of dissatisfactions and comments have surfaced since the handset's release, making it one of the devices most predisposed to controversy. First, it was the battery, then the touchscreen and, afterwards, the major unlocking issue that triggered various comments.

In the course of all these problems, the iPhone continued to sell and at a fairly fast pace, making it reach 1,389,000 sold units, at the end of the last financial quarter. None of its direct competitors have managed to pull off this performance, although some pretty strong ones are emerging with threatening potential.

One important aspect that has a great importance in Apple's results is that of the price drop that the producer chose to recently make in order to boost its sales. The Christmas season also drives reasons for high expectations coming from this producer, as the iPhone should also score some fairly high sales numbers. The next year should also help this device bring even more profits, as it will enter new markets across the world.

Drawing the line, some people might say that the iPhone could have done even better. On the other hand, it's a pretty impressive result for the first handset ever released by this producer and a huge popularity, despite the controversy that it generated. Too bad the number of high sales units is mainly on account of the recent price drop, a flick that Apple had to resort to in order to make it appeal to even more people.

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