Apple Sells Half a Million iPhones in the First Weekend

Adding a floater to my home insurance policy with MetLife only cost $10/year covering "any and all" risks, with no deductable. First thing I did when I got home!

I'm not sure why anyone mentioned MMS anymore. Why would you use up one of your 200 text messages to send someone a picture, when you can just email the pic to your recipient's phone? I know VZW allows you to email someone's phone number at vzwpix.com. I've tried it, and it works like a charm. I'm sure other carriers have an email alternative for getting MMS messages onto their subscribers' phones.

A little more on-topic, I'm sad to say I haven't bought an iPhone yet, but I'm happy about the reason: I'm not going to buy it until I can get the bluetooth headset on the same receipt. Just in case there's fine print in the AppleCare about joint coverage (like buying a monitor with a computer, as opposed to buying them separately).

I can wait, but it's painful.

By the by, Applecare will be $69, "available in July," and Apple has released a $79 (plus shipping) price tag for out-of-warranty battery replacement on the iPhone. Saw it on their site earlier, but now I can't find it.

http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html

Zune comments make me LOL.

Already iPhone has more users than Helio has subscribers.

http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2007/05/29/we-re-on-track-to-sell-one-million-zune-players.aspx

Actually they have neither sold nor shipped 1 million Zunes. The article in the Washington Post was a misquote.

@ c h r i s,
That was 1M Zunes shipped, not sold. Big difference.


@ everyone else,
Don't forget that there were million more sold in accessories, too.

Now maybe the 50K of you with activation issues will yell just a little quieter. That's an amazing load on a system.

Does anyone have Steve Ballmer's address? I have some crow I need to send him to eat.

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I wouldn't be worried about the sales' numbers but about the usability/bug flaws of the iphone. Let's face it, the lemmings would overwhelm the market anyway on 29th, it's the sales after the launch + the keeping up of the hype that will prove its success or doom. Seeing that there are no major flaws (apart from the temporary AT&T activation process chaos), what remains now as a boost for sales is what it does vs how much it costs. People will weigh those two and decide.

Bloomberg is counting 200,000 units instead, which makes me wonder (for both cases) where the heck they get such numbers from.