New iPhone 4s Already Pulling in Sales
Oct 8th, 2011 by davidjhinku
Apples latest addition to the iPhone family may have left people “underwhelmed” after 15 months of hype led expectations of a “revolutionary [new] design”, but that has by no means lessened demand for the phone. At&t recently came out with sales figures, announcing that within 12 hours of taking pre-orders they had sold 200,000 iPhone 4s units.
With the latest rendition of iPhone, Apple is relying on internal hardware upgrades like an 8MP camera and the new A5 dual-core processor. The phone will launch with Apples iOS 5 bringing a slew of new features, most prominently a sophisticated voice recognition software called Siri.
Apple has never had so much competition in the mobile phone market. Other mobile operation systems like Android or Windows Phone have been taking sizeable chunks of the mobile market; Google’s Android actually accounts for a larger market share then Apple.
These sales numbers are quite impressive considering that At&t is no longer the sole carrier for the iPhone. During the launch of the iPhone 4 is was the single place Americans could go to get the much loved phone but later in the year a Verizon variant came out. With the launch of the iphone 4s Sprint has been added to those three, adding a large number of consumers who had been previously unable to purchase the iPhone.
Despite a lacklustre unveiling, the iPhone 4s seems positioned to continuing the success of previous iPhones with some analysts even predicting that 28 million will be sold by December. Only time will tell if Apple’s loyal fan base is willing to put up with the rather uninspired new phone and if the new phone can hold off competition from Android.
Sources
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/08/us-att-idUSTRE7966NL20111008
http://www.apple.com/iphone/ios/
http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html