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August
5

First Million iPhone 3Gs: Global Breakdown & Analysis

Author: Andrew Robinowitz   |   Posted under: News
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Goldman Sachs released some stats last week about the first million 3G iPhones sold. The folks over at Medialets, an analytics & ad firm for iPhone apps, broke down the figures into some informative graphical displays (aka bar graphs).

It appears that 60% of those first million 3Gs, sold over just 3 days of the iPhone launch weekend, were purchased in the United States. Quite impressive when you take into account the stock shortages that plagued many AT&T and Apple locations.

The top 5 selling countries (US, Japan, Germany, France, Spain & UK) accounted for over 85% (861,000) of the sales. That means the remaining 139,000 iPhones were sold throughout the other 16 countries that participated in the release.
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