iPhones 5s and 5c sell 9m in record weekend as Apple shrugs off doubters

Data suggests 5s outsold 5c two to one as high-end smartphone market still shows promise and 200m upgrade to newer iOS 7 software.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/23/iphone-5s-5c-apple-record-nine-million

Apple shrugged off its critics, and analysts who said the high-end smartphone market was saturated, by announcing it has sold nine million iPhones in just three days.

The company's share price jumped more than 5% to $492 in response, adding $4bn to its value in minutes - though it remains well below its all-year high of $543 from January.

The figures are nearly double the record figure of five million in 2012, when it introduced the Iphone 5.

"The demand for the new iPhones has been incredible, and while we've sold out of our initial supply of iPhone 5s, stores continue to receive new iPhone shipments regularly," Cook said in a statement. "We appreciate everyone's patience and are working hard to build enough new iPhones for everyone."

The sales figures put the struggles of rival phone makers Nokia and BlackBerry into sharp focus. The value of iPhones sold was calculated at more than the enterprise value - the price minus cash - of Nokia's handset business, sold to Microsoft for €5.4bn earlier in September. And BlackBerry, which is preparing to formally announce a $1bn loss on Friday, managed to ship only 3.7m phones in the past three months.

this type of news is "timelessness" as this is a current event that happened and its talking about the huge rave of the new technology and smartphone out (iphone 5s and 5c). it talks about whats trendy right now and that people are very facinated by this new phone that it sold millions and is the hot topic to talk about.This news also has a huge impact on us economically as companies made a huge profit as nearly all these phones was sold out as they was seen very poplar to the public.