Apple confounded most estimates on first weekend iPhone 3G sales, delivering a record one million units sold by Sunday night. The company also revealed ten million applications to have now been downloaded from the App Store.
Only RBC Capital Market’s Mike Abramsky had anticipated global iPhone sales on the launch weekend would reach one million, while Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster had anticipated less than half this mark, 425,000 unit sales.
The news is certain to please investors, and provides slight justification in terms of the activation problems which plagued most customers in the US and the UK on launch day Friday 11 July.
Apple's UK network partner O2 last week told Macworld UK: "Demand is
