{"id":35682,"date":"2011-10-10T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35682"},"modified":"2011-10-10T09:38:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:38:38","slug":"pre-sales-success-for-iphone-4s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/35682-pre-sales-success-for-iphone-4s.html","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sales success for iPhone 4S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite very vocal disappointment regarding the specifications of the iPhone 4S, the device has gone on to set a pre-sales record with U.S. mobile carrier <a title=\"AT&amp;T\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359834-AT-amp-T\">AT&amp;T<\/a>, selling more than 200,000 units within the first 12 hours of pre-order availability.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday evening, delivery estimates for the iPhone 4S on <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple\u2019s<\/a> online store changed from \u201c14 October\u201d to \u201c1 \u2013 2 weeks\u201d, indicating that the stock for the first round of sales has already been depleted.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts have high expectations for Apple\u2019s latest smartphone as well as the older 3GS and vanilla iPhone 4 models, both of which saw price drops after the announcement of the 4S.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wedge Partners\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/371448-Wedge-Partners\">Wedge Partners<\/a>\u2019 analyst <a title=\"Brian Blair\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/371444-Brian-Blair\">Brian Blair<\/a> estimates that Apple shipped between 24 and 25 million iPhones in the September quarter, and expects this figure to rise to 27 million units in the December quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2011\/10\/08\/pre-sales-of-disappointing-iphone-4s-fail-to-disappoint\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-sales of the iPhone 4S have set a record with mobile carrier AT&#038;T<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":28468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,2458,4038,5534],"class_list":["post-35682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-att","tag-brian-blair","tag-wedge-partners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35686,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35682\/revisions\/35686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}