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7/3/2009 8:01 AM
The new iPhone 3GS may have only offered a small number of upgrades, but that didn’t stop consumers from flooding AT&T’s web site and retail locations to make “iLaunch 2009” one of the largest periods in the company’s history, achieving its best-ever sales day in storesaccording to an internal memo obtained by AllThingsD.Over that first weekend, Apple said it sold 1 million iPhones in eight countries, including the U.S., so you can assume a fairly large portion of those went to AT&T The memo said: “On this year’s launch day, iPhone sales exceeded sales recorded on 2008’s iPhone launch day, Black Friday 2008 and Dec. 26, 2008 — all heavy-volume sales days. In fact, this year we surpassed 2008’s launch day sales at about noon Central time, and sustained our previous peak hour record, also set in 2008, for 11 straight hours.”
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