Did you buy a new iPhone this weekend? You were not alone.
Apple announced on Monday that it had sold a whopping 13 million of its iPhone 6s and 6s Plus in their first weekend on sale to the public, smashing sales records and exceeding analyst expectations.
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The company had already indicated that it was on pace to break last year's sales record of 10 million phones sold in the first weekend, after logging its first pre-orders. Many analysts had expected blockbuster sales, given that Apple launched its phones in China for the first time in its first weekend. China is Apple's second-largest and fastest growing market.
Still, the 13-million figure topped the 12 million in sales that analysts expected to see, showing that consumers were excited about the largely under-the-hood improvements. These include the ability to take "Live Photos," which are like short videos that the phones capture with every picture and the addition of 3D Touch, a new feature for the touchscreen that senses how hard a user is pushing on the screen to trigger different actions.
Apple didn't disclose how many of each phone model it sold, nor how the newest shade of the iPhone - rose gold - did against its other finishes.
Outside observers, however, estimated that the pinkish phone also had a strong first weekend on the market. Ahead of the phones' Friday sales debut, Apple Insider reported that insiders told KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi-Kuo as much as 40 percent of pre-orders were for rose gold phones.
The Washington Post
Tue Sep 29 2015
The 13-million figure topped the 12 million in sales that analysts expected to see, showing that consumers were excited about the largely under-the-hood improvements.
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