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Despite all the long lines, crazy customers, server outages, and painful activation processes, Apple managed to serve up some interesting numbers over the last three days. According to the company, Apple sold one million iPhones in just three days after its launch on Friday with the one millionth iPhone being sold on Sunday. In addition, the company’s new App Store had more than 10 million applications downloaded since the launch of the store.

Achieving the one million sold mark for the iPhone is certainly no small achievement but let’s not forget that Apple launched the iPhone simultaneously in 21 different countries! As for the App Store, remember that the new 2.0 software update is available for both the new iPhone 3G, the first generation iPhone as well as iPod Touch users (for an upgrade fee). Thus, there were certainly plenty of users out there who had hardware that would make use of the new App Store – leading to plenty of downloads.  Of course, if you’re like me, you probably downloaded many of the free applications just to see what was useful and what was well.. crap. I can see it now…

“Select to install… download.. run… oh.. it’s stupid.. delete”. That’s one download!

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