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Apple Sold 2M iPhone 5s in 24 Hours

Which means demand outpaces initial supply

By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 17, 2012 12:30 PM CDT

(Newser) – Looks like the iPhone 5 might be the apple of Apple's eye: Tim Cook and Co. say they hawked 2 million of the smartphones in the 24 hours after it went on sale at 3am Friday. That number not only "suggests that iPhone 5 is running well ahead of iPhone 4S," as one analyst says, but also that demand is running well ahead of supply; Apple says most orders will be filled on Friday, but the surge means that some won't be delivered until next month, reports the AP. Apple's stock was flirting with the $700 mark this morning in response.

Apple CEO Tim Cook talks on stage during the introduction of the new iPhone 5 in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012.
Apple CEO Tim Cook talks on stage during the introduction of the new iPhone 5 in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012.   (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks in front of an image of the iPhone 5 during an Apple event in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012.
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks in front of an image of the iPhone 5 during an Apple event in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012.   (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, gives prices of the iPhone 5 in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012.
Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, gives prices of the iPhone 5 in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012.   (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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COMMENTS
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flatnosepete
Sep 18, 2012 5:52 PM CDT
Here is the Apple Here is the steeple Open the door And see all the sheeple.
MisterPlinkett
Sep 17, 2012 9:02 PM CDT
meanwhile, 20 more apple employees attempted suicide. "i'm a liberal who cries all day about jobs being outsourced. i'm also a huge humanitarian. BUT, i'll buy products from a company that outsources all of its production to China and is notorious for treating their workers so shitty that they routinely try to kill themselves."
johnny5point6
Sep 17, 2012 8:12 PM CDT
I won't say that those people are sheep, buy I will say I am confused why it gets such a cult following. What's the big deal? They are neat, buy it is virtually the same kind of neat since the first iPhone. Just slicker, and faster, but more of the same. So be it, I guess.

 
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