iPhone 4S pre-orders top 1 million in 24 hours

I wouldn’t say CNN was that far off. If my 3GS was still able to run apps without running out of memory I would wait until the 5 comes out. Unfortunately to stop the crashes I will have to join the million getting the 4S.

Just because it is selling well doesn’t mean it’s a great product, it might just mean some of us want to keep using our favored apps.

The web is unforgiving. The author of the CNN will likely be ribbed by other techies and fellow journalists for months. After all, the folks who "poo-pooed" the iPod at the eve of its release still receive honorable mention in the annals of history for their idiotic predictions.

If the iphone 4 sells 600,000 units in a single day on one network, I don't think 1 million iphone 4s in a single day on three network is that much of a success.

The way Apple has positioned this phone as an incremental upgrade is exactly why is is a hit and not a failure.

- You've got plenty of folks fresh out of contracts that started when they bought the 3GS. They want the retina display, the better battery, Facetime, etc, etc, etc. They'll of course get the full subsidized price
- You've got the hardcore owners that have to have the newest. They were sure to buy the new iPhone regardless of what it was.
- You've got folks who have been waiting on an upgrade because of 64GB.
- You've got folks like me who are just sick and tired of the growing, growing, growing sizes of competing platforms. I couldn't stand getting a LARGER phone. I have a Nexus One with an almost identical footprint to the 3GS. That said, I work with phones all day, it's what my job entails. I've used them all, from tiny 3.2" Windows phones all the way to 4.5" T-Mobile Hercules devices. The 3.5-3.7" range is what feels the best in my hand, and I know I'm not alone.
- You've got folks, again like me, who keep reading more and more about malware in the Android Market that Google refuses to step in and tame.
- The smartphone market is less than 50%. I think we often don't consider that half of people with mobile phones do not have a smartphone. Those looking to get rid of the dumbphones and feature phones with undoubtedly consider the iPhone.

I mean I dunno guys, I honestly can't see how a new iPhone could fail.. I really don't. Now if Apple gives us ANOTHER incremental upgrade in 2012, maybe. But this was never destined to fail, remember the 3GS? What a failure that was.. right? Right? Yeah..

The market tends to correct analyses from liars and fools who pass themselves off as pundits.

i don't get it, I've had an iPhone since 2007 the day it came out but when i heard the screen is the same small size i went and bought a samsung galaxy s II epic 4g. I can tell my phone to post to Facebook, i can tell it what app to open, who to call or text just like assistant on the iPhone. the screen is 4.5 inches and gorgeous. i loved the iPhone but its just not an upgrade at all really. I'm not waiting another year to hope apple adds a bigger screen.

Yeah, so much for the opinion of the experts...