Bonanza! I’m afraid it’s a bit like a little kid saying “I ate more hot dogs than ever before!” when they’re up against Takeru Kobayashi, but we’re still proud of little Sprint. Check out what their excited VP of Business Marketing had to say:
We experienced our best one day of sales and single weekend sales for any phone we’ve launched in our history. We sold out of the device over the weekend in most of our store locations. And it happened at a much faster rate than we had planned on.
Independent estimates place the Pre sales at more than 50,000 and less than 100,000 over the weekend, and hey, that’s great, but when your opponent in the race is a rare tortoise-hare hybrid like Apple, slow and steady isn’t going to cut it. I’m still rooting for you, Sprint, but you guys need to go big or you’re not going to have a home to go home to.
Of course, considering that AT&T and Apple are putting somewhat high prices on upgrades and plans for people.
I’m rooting for Sprint because I need them to continue to exist so that I can enjoy my SERO plan.
I think Pre could have much better launching pad but I think the investor @ Palm didn’t had much money to spare. Well, I hope Pre is a success! We need some competition for iPhone.
the only good thing about the pre and sprint is that it might bring down AT&T’s pricing
So, just so I can make sure to keep straight the ever-shifting rationalizations for why the iPhone is the most important phone in the world:
When comparing iPhone sales to Nokia or RIM, sales figures are unimportant, it is how much people talk about the phone, and how much buzz it generates which determines how much influence the phone will have on the market.
When comparing Pre sales to iPhone, suck it you looser punks, you will never catch up to a sales juggernaut like Apple, and everyone knows sales are the only thing that ultimately matter.
Does that about sum it up? I tried to follow the cardinal rule of tech journalism, namely that whatever metric makes Apple look good in the current context, is the correct metric to use, but only in the current context.
Tuche good sir. Tuche.