But Brazil, where unlocked phones start at $1,400 U.S., not so much
Apple (AAPL) delivered the iPhone 4S to two dozen more countries Friday, bringing it -- by our count -- to 76, exceeding its stated goal to be in more than 70 countries by the end of the year.
Friday's launches were in Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Egypt, French West Indies, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Reunion Island, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. On Nov. 25 it launched in Colombia, Croatia, India, Macau, Macedonia, Moldova, Uruguay and Venezuela.
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In the coverage we've seen so far, customers seemed pretty excited in Malaysia and more muted in Brazil, where Apple is charging 2,599 Brazilian Reals ($1,400) for an unlocked 16GB iPhone 4S -- a model you can pick up in the U.S. for $649.
Apple released its new phone in 22 countries Friday. In one it's already "unavailable"
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Singapore would seem the perfect place for an Apple Store.
The former British colony of 5 million people on the tip of the Malay Peninsula is the world's fifth busiest shipping port, the fourth largest financial center, the second biggest casino gambling market and first in the percentage of millionaire households.
Plus, it can't get enough MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 29, 2011 6:55 AM ET
The crowd of 350-400 was smaller than the ones that showed up for the iPad and iPad 2
We counted 352 heads before shooting this video. By the time Apple (AAPL) staffers opened the doors at 8:00 a.m., it had probably grown to 400.
We counted 330 at this store for the launch of the iPhone 3GS, 500-600 for the launch of the original iPad and nearly 1,200 for the iPad 2.
Judging from the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 14, 2011 10:01 AM ET
A launch perfectly timed to coincide with the end of Apple's second fiscal quarter
Shoppers queued up for the iPad 2 in London. Image: onlygeek
Reports are still drifting in, but it seems likely that most of the 25 countries where Apple (AAPL) launched the iPad 2 on Friday had run out of product by Saturday afternoon.
Pocket-lint reported Saturday that the two flagship Apple Stores in London -- Regent Street and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 27, 2011 7:36 AM ET
The crowd of nearly 1,200 customers filled the FAO Schwartz plaza, wound down 58th Street, ran up Madison Ave. and across 59th Street all the way back to Fifth Ave.
4:00 p.m. 3/11/2001 Photo: PED
The turnout for Apple's (AAPL) iPad 2 was huge -- bigger than any I'd seen for a product launch. An hour before the doors were scheduled to open at the company's flagship Fifth Avenue store, it MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 11, 2011 4:44 PM ET
You don't need a translator to follow Friday's 17-country launch of the iPhone 4
Hong Kong gets the iPhone 4: NOWTV via YouTube
One of best things about the movie Babies -- a documentary look at the first year of life in four very different countries -- is that you know what the parents are saying to their children even if you don't understand a word.
It's the same these days with MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 30, 2010 12:38 PM ET
YouTube videos -- some wild, some less so -- document iPad's launch in 9 countries Friday
iPad customers in a Hong Kong mall. Video: neonpunch via YouTube
For future anthropologists who may someday write doctoral theses on how different cultures greeted the arrival Apple's (AAPL) tablet computer, we submit as evidence the videos below the fold.
The iPad launched in nine countries Friday, but how that launch was greeted varied widely.
There were MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 25, 2010 11:57 AM ET
Sprint changed its launch day numbers down to the combined weekend totals of its two previous best sellers combined.
The Sprint EVO 4G is selling very well, even if it isn't selling as well as Sprint previously stated. Sprint today said that it had misstated the original numbers by adding an extra 3x in its original statement.
Sprint said on Tuesday the total number of HTC EVO 4G devices sold on the launch day MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jun 9, 2010 9:33 AM ET
"Magical" and "revolutionary" and only few days late
Photo: Apple Inc.
Apple (AAPL) shares soared to record levels Friday as the company announced that its iPad tablet computer will go on sale Saturday, April 3, within a few days of its original ship date.
Reports that the device had run into a production problem don't seem to have greatly affected its release. Customers can place online orders for both the Wi-Fi and MORE
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