{"id":3241,"date":"2011-10-17T10:54:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2011-10-17T10:54:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:54:29","slug":"apple-sells-4-million-disappointing-iphone-4ss-in-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/apple-sells-4-million-disappointing-iphone-4ss-in-three-days\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Apple Sells 4 Million [disappointing] iPhone 4Ss in Three Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple PR:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Apple\u00ae today announced it has sold over four million of its new iPhone\u00ae 4S, just three days after its launch on October 14. In addition, more than 25 million customers are already using iOS 5, the world\u2019s most advanced mobile operating system, in the first five days of its release, and more than 20 million customers have signed up for iCloud\u00ae&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2011\/10\/05\/apples-fall-from-grace\/\">Disappointing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple PR: Apple\u00ae today announced it has sold over four million of its new iPhone\u00ae 4S, just three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Qh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1091,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/apples-mac-os-x-marketing-kind-of-disappointing\/","url_meta":{"origin":3241,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Apple&#8217;s Mac OS X Marketing&#8230;Kind of Disappointing","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I know that Apple is just getting started. 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