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Apple moves 1 million iPhones in 3 days; 39 percent of buyers own PCs
Apple said that it has sold 1 million iPhones over Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Given the activation hurdles, Apple’s tally (statement) is stunning and well ahead of what Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster–one of the more bullish Apple followers out there–predicted. Munster estimated that Apple would hit the 1 million mark later this month.
Jason O’Grady has all the scorekeeping on the rollout problems, AT&T coverage and other items. All blog posts and galleries on the iPhone are also available.
For comparison’s sake the first iPhone took 74 days to sell 1
million iPhones. The big reason for the jump is that this iPhone
rollout is global with the
exception of France, which will see iPhones July 17. Munster estimated
that the Apple sold 425,000 iPhone 3G devices over Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. He reckoned that if Apple sold 41,000 a day that Apple would
hit 1 million iPhones by July 28.
Also see: Cracking Open the Apple iPhone 3G (right)
While the sales are impressive Munster’s survey of buyers may be more notable. More iPhone buyers are PC owners.
The big item: 39 percent of iPhone buyers this time around use the PC primarily. With the first generation iPhone 25 percent of respondents owned a PC.
Why is that important? Apple is gaining a bigger footprint among PC owners, which most likely have iPods. These iPhone toting PC owners also may show how Apple’s Trojan Horse strategy to get more enterprise share may actually work. After all, corporate IT is still a Windows world.
Here are the results of Munster’s survey:
Survey says: iPhone texters more mistake-prone
According to information from User Centric, a usability consulting company, those who spend time text messaging on their iPhone make more typos than those on phones with either hardware keypads or traditional phone keypads. From our friends at the IDG News Service:
The researchers found that while iPhone users entered text as fast as their counterparts, they made significantly more texting errors. iPhone users made 5.6 errors per message, while keyboard users made 2.1 mistakes per message and numeric phone typers made 2.4 mistakes.
The sample size for the survey was a mere 20 people per group, so I’m not sure just how much we can draw from these results. The study also claims that iPhone users don’t improve with experience, with novice users encountering the same number of mistakes as more experienced users.
Now I don’t know about you, but I find that my efficiency at tapping out messages varies quite a bit, depending on whether I’m distracted, using one hand versus two hands, and even by whether my fingers are cold or not. Sometimes I can type very quickly, and completely mistake-free—more often than not, I make fewer mistakes if I remember to trust the built-in text correction, which is quite good.
Despite the conclusions of the survey, the data they’ve collected is pretty interesting. For example: the keys on the outside edge of the keyboard (Q, A, Z, P, L, and M) had the highest rate of being hit correctly, while keys next to the most common letters (those surrounding E, T, A, O, and I) had the biggest chance of being hit by accident. I often notice myself hitting keys by accident, it’s true, though it’s only really annoying when it’s, say, the delete or return key.
What say you, iPhoners? Have you had problems cranking out the text messages? Do you make a lot of mistakes? Do most people even care if they make mistakes in text messages? I mean, how hard is it to spell LOL ROFL C YA L8R?
Category: Musings
Our survey of 500 iPhone owners reveals that, though most are happy overall, they have lots of suggestions.
Melissa J. Perenson, PC World
The honeymoon isn't over. A little more than a month after the Apple iPhone went on sale, nearly 90 percent of iPhone owners who answered a PC World survey said that they love their almost-new toy. But they also had a few complaints--most notably regarding the iPhone's voice and data networks--and lots of suggestions.
About 13 percent of our respondents said that they'd run into at least one significant problem with their device in the past month. The most common culprit: the battery.
"It is a fantastic device," raves one iPhone owner. "Way beyond my old Treo 700W, which almost seems like an antique rotary phone by comparison. The iPhone is the first and only truly integrated communicator." An overwhelming majority (88 percent) of the survey's nearly 500 respondents rated themselves as very or extremely satisfied with their new phone.
What the iPhone Does Right
The iPhone received its highest marks for music and video playback: About 90 percent of respondents were very or extremely satisfied with the iPhone's ability to entertain. "As an iPod, it's really good. The simplified navigation is awesome," one reader said.
Survey participants were slightly less pleased with the iPhone's performance as a phone, but even so 84 percent of respondents gave the device high marks on that aspect of its duties. The iPhone also earned widespread praise for its Web browsing abilities, which 83 percent of respondents found very or extremely satisfying.
In connection with its hardware and native software, the iPhone's lowest marks for satisfaction involved the camera (46 percent were highly satisfied) and the built-in widgets (62 percent were happy as clams).
What's Not to Like
The iPhone suffered its biggest negatives for the voice and data network it's married to--the AT&T system. A whopping 40 percent of our survey respondents expressed some level of dissatisfaction with the speed of AT&T's EDGE data network, which tops out at 200 kilobits per second and often performs at half that speed, according to Broadband Reports.
The voice quality of the iPhone on AT&T's network seems to be cutting into satisfaction with the iPhone experience, too: Among our poll respondents, only 61 percent rated themselves as very satisfied or extremely satisfied with the voice quality of the AT&T network, and even fewer characterized themselves as satisfied with the voice network coverage.
In our pool of respondents, 59 people (13 percent) said that they had experienced a "significant problem" with their iPhone--not an inconsiderable number, but not surprising for a first-generation device. One-third of those who had encountered problems complained about the battery, a quarter griped about the touch screen, 24 percent reported issues involving the Safari browser, and 24 percent had difficulties with other device software. (The total exceeds 100 percent because respondents were free to report more than one problem.)
"The browser crashes from time to time," one respondent said. "And less frequently, video playback crashes, too."
I found this at pcworld.com
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135595-c,iphone/article.html
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