Apple set another record: 10 million iPhone units in 3 days

Sep 22, 2014 15:45 GMT  ·  By

Right after Apple announced the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, a slew of tweets came out. Samsung, HTC, Nokia or Nexus Phones were compared to the new iPhone models. A few days later, Samsung went overboard and released a few commercials mocking the iPhone.

They've got some laughs but some mostly raised eyebrows, and everyone thought what was wrong with them.

Big mouth

And then came the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus pre-orders day. In just 24 hours, customers bought 4 million units. To understand what that translates to, imagine that Apple sold 47 iPhone units every second. This is huge! So huge that no other smartphone developer in the world has managed to get even close to these numbers.

Strangely enough, shortly after that, Samsung's bashing tweets on the iPhone 6 were gone and they were not making any new commercials.

On Monday, the final 3-day sales numbers came in and they shattered everything on the market. Apple sold 10 million iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units in the first weekend. That is 1 million more than last year's iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c sales.

And to use Samsung's line: it doesn't take a genius to see why Apple's competitors are all quiet. Samsung sold an average of 1.7 million Galaxy S5 and Note 3 devices in the first weekend. Yes, that's about 6 times lower than Apple. With numbers like these no one would have the courage to come out and say something about their competition anymore.

Mac versus PC

We all remember the years-long campaign initiated by Apple, "Hello I'm a Mac and I am a PC." That was the starting line in all of them. Users say that Samsung had that model in mind for their ads. However, the Mac versus PC ads were funny and to the point. They were not bashing a company for getting something done later, but they were mocking a product that was on the market for years and had bugs and endless issues.

It's really not the same now. You cannot compare the Windows Vista's flop with Apple's success. Windows Vista did not have millions of copies sold to users that were eagerly waiting to buy them. The iPhone does not have the malware and bloatware installed like Windows machines did and even Samsung has at the moment on their devices.

It's about you

The moral of this story is simple: no matter how many bad commercials Samsung will release, no matter how many tweets and comparisons will show up online, you need to decide whether the new iPhone is for you.

To be honest, I have been an iPhone user since the first generation and I do not like the iPhone 6 Plus. The device is huge, the screen is too big and it won't even fit my pocket or bag. If I need a bigger screen to read stuff, I'll jump on my computer. If I need it to be mobile, I'll grab my iPad and go.

I hope that Apple will release a smaller iPhone 6s or iPhone 7. The size of the iPhone 5s is just perfect, but I know that I will not be able to stick with it for the next 10 years, and eventually I will need to move on.

Do you like the new iPhone? Do you need a bigger screen? How about a better, more secure, bloatware-free operating system? Then switch to it. You will love the iOS ecosystem and the way developers take care of the apps that show up in the AppStore. It may be more expensive than your current Android phone, but you know for sure that you get the best smartphone out there.

The numbers that really count are not the 10 million devices sold in the past weekend. You need to have a great experience, you need a good number of apps and you need the amount of bloatware and malware and the number of compromises to be zero.