Wall Street seemed ready to have an epileptic seizure last month when Apple merely reported an incredible, record-breaking quarter instead of whatever financial fever dream they imagined, so this ought to give them a little spring in their step: the iPhone 4S is now the best-selling smartphone at all three of the top US carriers. Duh.
Even though the iPhone 4S only launched during the latter half of October, it managed to top the number one spot at AT&T, Verizon and Sprint.
Even better? The iPhone 4 is still selling like gang busters too. The $99 handset was in the top three handsets of the trifecta of big carriers. And while there’s no official word on where the iPhone 3GS is in AT&T’s sales rankings, I’m betting the $0 iPhone is in the top five too.
There really is an iPhone for everyone these days. Well, unless you’re a T-Mobile subscriber.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
10 responses to “iPhone 4S Is The Best-Selling Smartphone At All Three US Carriers”
Unless you’re a T-Mobile subscriber???? Unlocked iPhone with a prepaid SIM, baby! Way cheaper than a contract.
With no 3G, I think I’d rather have no iPhone then use it on 2G….but hey that’s just me n my 2 cents
True. I’m still old school though and really only use the cell network for phone calls. I only use apps or anything when I’m in a wifi network.
Man if an iPhone can be “old school”, what is a rotary dial phone?
2 iPhone 4S(s) landed in our household 2 weeks ago. Since then, we’ve added an AppleTV, which with Airplay, makes the iPhone4S an awesome remote and media streamer. Buy a movie, it is viewable on all phones, laptops, appletv(s), and ipads. Bought an app, got it on both phones. It has been an absolute joy to use and was well worth it to leave T-Mobile to go to Sprint for their unlimited data plan. Nice.