Could this be a tribute to the death of Steve Jobs?
Apple's iPhone 4S barrelled toward unit sales of up to 4 million at the weekend, as the company's US carrier partner AT&T reported a record number of customers activating the device on its network.
The latest version of Apple's best-seller, which went on sale last Friday in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK, is outpacing the iPhone 4 - a device that topped 1.7 million units in its first weekend in 2010. Most estimates for weekend sales range from 2 million to 3 million, with Yankee Group analyst Carl Howe predicting up to 4 million.
'iPhone for Steve'
In Australia, the first country where the product went on sale, Jackie Guo, 25, and his girlfriend, both students at Macquarie University, said they lined up as a tribute to Jobs.
“It's the iPhone for Steve, it's for the memory of Steve,” Guo said. “It was the last product he worked on. He pushed this company to become a viable company. His ideas are better than others.”
In San Francisco on Friday, a line stretched around the block at the Union Square store. Customers were given bagels, nutrition bars and energy drinks as they waited. Eva Nunez, 46, was in line to buy the new iPhone for herself and her 14-year- old son. “It's a mum's duty,” she said.
In Frankfurt, Grigory Stolyarov, a 27-year-old employee of DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, spent the night in front of the store on the city's main shopping street. He had put on two pairs of socks, sweaters and jackets to weather the first near-freezing night of fall and be among the first 20 people in a line of more than 1,000.
Check the official iphone 4s overview and features
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf0EgDHG8FQ
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