Apple sells 4M-plus new iPhone models in 3 days
NEW YORK - October 17, 2011
Apple and its phone company partners started selling the iPhone
4S on Friday in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan
and Britain. They are coming to 22 more countries by the end of the
month.
When Apple launched the iPhone 4 last year, it sold 1.7 million
in the first three days.
There are two more launch countries than last year, and there
are also more phone companies that sell the phone. In the U.S.,
Sprint Nextel Corp. is the new carrier, joining AT&T Inc. and
Verizon Wireless.
On Friday, both AT&T and Sprint said the new phone had broken
sales records. At Verizon Wireless, a lot of pent-up iPhone demand
was satisfied with the February launch of the iPhone 4, the first
iPhone for that company.
Apple shares fell $1.54 to $420.46 in afternoon trading, after
hitting a new all-time high of $426.70 earlier in the session.
