Details are emerging about where the first million iPhone 3Gs were sold. At WWDC in June, Steve Jobs stressed availability and how the iPhone 3G would be sold in more countries than ever at an affordable price. July 11th was the launch day for 22 countries, and 70 more countries will eventually be selling them. With this widespread availability, we’ve been curious what the demand is around the World. The Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research report was recently released which breaks it down, and Medialets has graphed this information.
Before we fill you in on some of the data, the graph is a bit deceiving because they weren’t able to properly represent the number of iPhones sold in the United States in proportion to the other countries. Also note that this is the data for the number of phones sold in the 3-day launch period in July.
The top five sellers:
- United States with 600,000 units sold
- Japan with 70,000 units sold
- Germany with 69,000 units sold
- France with 67,000 units sold
- Spain with 55,000 units sold
600,000 units is a lot and that means that the United States accounts for a whopping 60% of all sales. Helping the international effort will be the launch of the iPhone 3G in 20 additional countries on August 22nd. Included with those countries will be Romania, Singapore and Estonia. India is said to be getting the iPhone 3G soon as well.
In somewhat related news, Sprint lost over 900,000 subscribers this past Spring. Could part of this be due to the new iPhone 3G? This big loss in the Spring follows a big loss they had last Winter. Things aren’t looking so good for Sprint, even though they have that spiffy Samsung Instinct that was supposed to help retain customers.
Sources: TechCrunch, Mac Rumors
Our iPhone 3G costs 525 euro (a whopping 810 dollar!) in Belgium because the cell phone provider that sells it is not allowed to tie a subscription to it. The funniest part though is that, from those 525 euro, their profit is just 5 euro (7.7 dollar). This once again proves that Apple’s prices are ridiculous.
There would be many more sales in Spain if they actually had any stock in the country. One month on from the launch and there still aren’t any in Barcelona.
And to think, come August 22nd they will be selling them in more countries! Perhaps they should try to meet the demand in existing markets before expanding?
Maybe once the demand for the device dies down they’ll go ahead and lower the price. That is pretty crazy though. The 16GB model over hear will be $699 for those that don’t want to buy it on an AT&T account. Luckily we were able to get our 16GB for $299 since AT&T subsidized it.
I’m sure you’ll be getting more soon. As of last night almost all Apple stores in the United States had the 16GB black iPhone 3G in stock, which should mean they’ve got plenty to go around here. I’m wondering what the AT&T stores are like in terms of stock though.