Apple sells 1.7 million iPhone 4s in three days, making it the most successful start for a product in the company’s history:
Apple said it took advance orders for more than 600,000 new iPhones world-wide on the first day it was available, the most ever taken by the company in a single day and 10 times higher than for the iPhone 3G last year.
Analysts have been expecting the new model to help Apple sell about 36 million iPhones in the fiscal year ending in September, up 73% from the prior fiscal year.