>The iPhone 4S appears to be outselling the iPhone 4, which was a ground-up redesign of the iPhone, and (IIRC) Apple's most successful product introduction ever

>The iPhone 4S appears to be outselling the iPhone 4, which was a ground-up redesign of the iPhone, and (IIRC) Apple's most successful product introduction ever. The market is definitely bigger, not to mention Verizon and Sprint getting the iPhone, so the number aren't directly comparable. >They could sell 50 million phones and you'd still be able to write this comment. "How much more than 50MM phones would they have sold with a different form factor?" And that question would still be valid. I was basing my question on my personal experience that many of my friends with a 3GS immediately jumped on the iPhone 4 regardless of contracts, but aren't that interested into moving to the 4S. I know that's just an anecdote, maybe others can share theirs. >These sales numbers do in fact make the analysts look stupid. Maybe I missed some of the articles, but the ones I read stated that the release was somewhat disappointing but the phone will still sell a lot. Apple has built a reputation for suddenly unveiling groundbreaking design and hardware and this lead to people expecting(wrongly or rightly) them to repeat it.