Apple says million iPhone 3GS sold in first three days

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Apple says it has sold a million of its new iPhone 3GS model in the first three days since its worldwide launch on Friday.

The press release is also interesting for including a "quote" from Steve Jobs, who you might recall is the company's chief executive, and who in an interesting development was said, by a mysteriously unsourced story in the Wall Street Journal, to have had a liver transplant earlier this year.

"Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "With over 50,000 applications available from Apple's revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever."

Certainly no dispute about the momentum. Even the precipitious price for the new model doesn't seem to be putting people off, despite this hefty recession.

For those still stuck on the old iPhone 3G, or even the old old iPhone, there's now a handy table to show you what things you can and can't do on each phone.

Notable among these is that no matter how you swing it, the original iPhone can't do MMS (a phone released in 2007 that can't do MMS?). And last year's iPhone 3G can't do video - although one company, GPApps, insists that it could enable video recording on the 3G. Perhaps someone with a jailbroken 3G phone could tell us if it works...

Oh, yes, the 3GS thing. Well, when Apple originally released the phone, it was called "iPhone 3G S".

Such as the email hawking it last week, which read "Make a call or play a song using just your voice. And discover many more features that make iPhone 3G S the best iPhone yet"

But today the press release says "CUPERTINO, California—June 22, 2009—Apple® today announced that it has sold over one million iPhone™ 3GS models through Sunday, June 21..."

See? The space has gone, and in an Orwellian touch, the old press releases on the Apple site are being tweaked to remove the space as well. (Though as Chris Hall commented on Twitter, "I wonder if they'll reprint all the boxes...")

Obviously, we've been using the 3GS formulation since its launch. Nice to see them seeing sense over there.


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