Sales of the new iPhone raze – Semana.com

                     Apple returned to get his way. The mobile phone market was once again at his feet after a single weekend managed to sell more than 13 million devices, which turned out to be a new record for the flagship product of the Californian company.

“The iPhone sales iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have been phenomenal, exceeding sales of any other first weekend in Apple’s history,” the CEO of the company, Tim Cook said in a statement .

Analysts had forecast that sales would range between 12 million and 13 million, but exceeded expectations. To measure the success of the iPhone, just know that its closest competitor, Samsung managed to sell 10 million units of the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge in 38 days.

Most worrying for Apple’s competitors is only the iPhone debuted Friday in twelve countries, including the United States, France, Germany, Canada, Japan and a group of nations including Spain does not appear and no Hispanic or Brazil, where will arrive before year’s end.

Apple announced that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s available in 40 more countries from October 9, including Spain, Mexico, Italy and Russia. What these figures show is that global competition between Samsung and Apple mobile market will tilt in favor of the Americans. In the last three years the Koreans have dominated.

The iPhone is Apple’s most profitable product, accounting for about 56% of its profits. The new models, which Apple touts as “the most advanced smartphones in the world”, incorporating more powerful front rear chambers 12 and 5 megapixels, and

(the one used for self-portraits), respectively.

The new rear cameras have the ability to record in ultra high definition or 4K and create minivideos with each photograph taken, so that when you click on the image reproduced in brief moments in which it was made.

The devices also include a new “3-D Touch” (Touch 3-D), which creates a new menu control function of the pressure exerted on the screens, which are also more resistant.

Apple has sold more than 700 million mobile devices since it debuted on the market in 2007, although its market share of 16%, is well below the 81% who have phones equipped with the Android operating system developed by Google.

With information from Reuters.