Apple’s Sales Rocket Start

Apple’s gadgets are always sold like hot cakes and always excel cautious analysts’ forecasts, but the recent launch has set new records even for the company itself. The sales of iPhone 4 began last week and on Monday after only 3 days of sales the company’s representatives claimed that the company had sold more than 1.7 million units of the iPhone 4. The number turned to be the company’s new record, exceeding last year’s sales of iPhone 3GS which topped a million in its first three days. The breathtaking effect of the recent launch is even more fascinating when compared to the sales of the first iPhone in 2007. It took about 74 days to hit the line and reach one million mark.

Unlike iPad international sales which were delayed because of a great domestic market demand, iPhone 4 was launched in several overseas countries besides the U.S. France, Germany, the U.K. and Japan were among the lucky ones. But Apple is going to deploy the gadget in 87 other countries by September. And this deployment seems to be the quickest in the company’s history.

Though there were lots of rumors as to the tremendous success of the new gadget before the launch, most analysts remained very cautious, presenting quite modest forecasts which were easily excelled. But some analysts are sure that if more supplies were available, the total number of gadgets sold would have been bigger. In some places preorders have been stopped and sales representatives began the campaign first in, first out, granting more abilities to direct customers to get the new device.

Taking into consideration that the sales as well as the demand for the iPad are also growing, at the moment everybody from Foxconn workers at assembling lines to iPad and iPhone developers are busy trying to saturate the endless market. Steve Jobs is busy too, counting money.