Halo 3 broke the previous all time retail record set by Spiderman 3 the movie. Spiderman 3 the movie, with the 5 day opening weekend brought in 151 million.
Halo 3 in the first 24 hours, bought in 170 million. The first 8 hours, 1.8 million copies were sold. In the first 20 hours, over 1 million people logged in to Xbox Live to play.
Yes folks, it's 9-25. At 11:55, we showed up at the local Micro Center to check out the halo 3 launch.
For the pictures, go here.
This morning, at 8:50AM. The door bell rings, I didn't hear it of course. P on the other hand, heard it, and pushed me, saying "Get the door, my iMac is here."
I quickly went to the door. Sure enough, the new 24 inch iMac and 15 inch MacBook Pro are here. Apple shipped them Fed Ex International Overnight for morning delivery straight from Shanghai.
Thus, Kumiko the MacBook Pro 15 inch arrives to my army of computers.
Come forth, my Army of Macs. And iPhone too! :)
With switching to iPhone, my sprint phone became my backup phone. The Samsung Blade has served me well for several years. But with it being a backup phone, there is no longer any point to have such high minutes plan. But with my contract up, one of the terrible thing about Sprint is, anytime you change plan, you are automatically contracted for 1 year. Sprint wasn't too helpful on selling me new phones with discounts either. A quick conversation with the customer retention department took care of that however. I was able to get the Razr2 for $199, which is $50 cheaper than new customer.
The phone is very shinny.
The August US Console sales number from NPD is out.
360 gained 100k units from the price cut and BioShock. PS3 numbers dropped quickly to the normal level after the brief surge from the $100 price cut.
Looks like Microsoft is bypassing update permission system and silently updated 18 files on all XP and Vista computers. So glad I pretty much only use Linux and OSX for daily work now.
Intel is exceeding forecast quarterly number because of strong Apple laptop and desktop sales.
Friends from Intel are all like "Yay! Way go to Apple". Intel guys cheering for Apple? This is something I never thought I'd see.
Apple sold the one millionth iPhone this past weekend, at 74 days mark. It's slower than I expected. But then, it took 2 years to sell 1 millionth iPod.
On average, 80k Blackberries are sold every 3 month. The current Treo install base is around 5.3 million. This includes both Windows version and Treo version.
Looks like someone else discovered first. The first publication of this trick was at a macrumor thread.
iTunes 7.4.1 breaks it, don't update.
Lots of updates from Apple today. iPod was renamed iPod Classic. and new pricing points are 80Gb for $249, 160GB for $349.
iPod Nano has a new form factor. It's shorter and wider so the screen can be updated to 320x240. Same pricing point as before, $149 for 4GB, $199 for 8GB. The UI got an update as well, it now supports cover flow.
iPod Touch is basically iPhone minus the phone, blue tooth and camera. It's also missing some software, such as Google maps. But everything else is the same. It has Safari, has wifi, etc, just like iPhone. 8GB version is $299, 16GB version is $399.
This leads to a big price drop on iPhone. 4GB version is discontinued. While supply last, you can get it for $299. 8GB version is now $399. Yes, a $200 drop in less than 3 month. Ah yes, the price of bleeding edge gadget lover. Would I still get it first day now I've had my iPhone for a while? Yes, I would. The amount of time both visual voice mail and google map has saved me is worth it.
