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iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Sales To Top Ten Million In First Week

The New York Times -- Early sales of Apple’s new iPhones have lived up to high expectations. The company on Monday said it sold more than 10 million of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models in the first three days they were available in stores. That is higher than the nine million new iPhones it sold last year in their first weekend on sale. The phones’ larger screens — 4.7 diagonal inches for the 6 and 5.5 for the 6 Plus — are a considerable jump from the 4-inch screens of earlier iPhones. The iPhone sales were on the upper end of financial analysts’ expectations, which ranged from 6.5 million to the “low teens” of millions of sales. The iPhone 6 Plus is very large and has the same size display as the LG G3, at 5.5 inches, but is significantly taller. Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, announced the Apple Watch during an event at the Flint Center on Tuesday in Cupertino, Calif. The strong sales mirror growing consumer demand for smartphones with bigger screens. IDC, a research firm, e...