Apple sells 9 million iPhones for its launch weekend


Apple today announced it has sold a record-breaking nine million new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c models, just three days after the launch of the new iPhones on September 20. In addition, more than 200 million iOS devices are now running the completely redesigned iOS 7, making it the fastest software upgrade in history. Both iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c are available in the US, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK. Demand for iPhone 5s has exceeded the initial supply, and many online orders are scheduled to be shipped in the coming weeks.

This compares to 5 million sold last year's launch weekend. Apple didn't break down the numbers between iPhone 5s and 5c, unfortunately. That would be interesting to see the product mix for both how many people were interested in basically a re-issued iPhone 5 in color, and also how many iPhone 5s boxes were available for sale. Also, this year Apple launched in China, which should have factored into these numbers.

Also in that release Apple said 200 million devices upgrades to iOS 7, which is pretty impressive.