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Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus pre-orders top 4 million in 24 hours

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<p>Your unsurprising news for this Monday morning: Apple sold a lot of pre-orders for the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus last Friday. Over four million pre-orders (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140915005314/en/Apple-Announces-Record-Pre-orders-iPhone-6-iPhone#.VBbfpEvpapU) in the first 24 hours, to be precise.</p><p>As it has been in years past, pre-orders opened in the wee hours of Friday morning and were plagued with server issues (http://www.macworld.com/article/2605880/iphone-6-preorders-plagued-with-problems.html) (likely due to the overwhelming demand for new iOS devices) until midday.</p><p>Apple’s no stranger to big pre-order numbers, of course: While the iPhone 5s’s early sales weren’t released, the iPhone 5 topped two million (http://www.macworld.com/article/2009972/iphone-5-tops-2-million-preorders-in-24-hours.html), while the iPhone 4 pre-orders rang in at 600,000 (http://www.macworld.com/article/1152079/iPhone_4_preorders.html).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2643110/apple-iphone-6-and-6-plus-pre-orders-top-4-million-in-24-hours.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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