Apple officially launched its new iPhone 4S on Friday, October 14. As it was expected by many industry experts, the phone is a blockbuster.
The company announced on Monday, October 17, that customers bought over 4 million units during the handset’s first weekend in stores.
“iPhone 4S is off to a great start with more than four million sold in its first weekend—the most ever for a phone and more than double the iPhone 4 launch during its first three days,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, according to a company press release.
The release also said that iOS 5, Apple’s new operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, had been downloaded over 25 million times since it became available on October 12. Meanwhile, “20 million customers have signed up for iCloud,” Apple’s cloud-based storage and wireless synching system,according to the press release.
Apple previously announced on October 10 that the iPhone 4S had sold a stunning 1 million units during its first 24 hours of pre-sale availability.
The iPhone 4S is currently on sale in only seven countries, but not in Dubai and U.A.E. in general. Apple plans to make the device available in ten times as many countries by the year’s end.
