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10 million Apple iPhone 6, 6 Plus sold in debut weekend

Sales surpassed last year's nine million units when the iPhone 5s and 5c were introduced

A man holds up his new iPhone 6 as he leaves an Apple Store in Palo Alto, California on Friday. Hundreds of people lined up to to purchase the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus over the weekend. Photo: Getty Images/AFPPremium
A man holds up his new iPhone 6 as he leaves an Apple Store in Palo Alto, California on Friday. Hundreds of people lined up to to purchase the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus over the weekend. Photo: Getty Images/AFP

San Francisco: Apple Inc. sold a record of more than 10 million iPhones in the weekend debut of two new models, as consumers flocked to stores and Web shops to buy handsets featuring bigger screens.

Sales surpassed last year’s nine million units when the iPhone 5s and 5c were introduced, the Cupertino, California-based company said in a statement on Monday.

“While our team managed the manufacturing ramp better than ever before, we could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible," chief executive officer Tim Cook said in the statement.

Analysts’ estimates varied widely, with one projecting sales as high as 15 million units while others had cautioned that the results could fall short of last year’s shipments of the new iPhone 5s and 5c because of production shortages and the fact that the new devices didn’t go on sale in China.

Cook is using the iPhone 6, which has a 4.7-inch display, and iPhone 6 Plus with a 5.5-inch screen to push into the turf of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, HTC Corp. and other manufacturers of jumbo-sized smartphones.

The rollout of the new iPhones, which account for more than half of Apple’s $171 billion in annual revenue, will be followed by the anticipated debut of new iPad models next month as the company revamps its product lineup ahead of the holiday shopping season.

The new iPhones arrived in Apple stores on 19 September in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK. Bloomberg

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Published: 22 Sep 2014, 11:55 PM IST
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