Apple Is Selling Around 1,000 iPhone 4Ss A Minute: Fastest Selling Phone/Gadget Ever

Reports are in that Apple is selling around 16 iPhone 4Ss a second which comes out to be around 1,000 units a minute; that is just simply crazy. It was announced this morning that there were 4 million iPhone 4Ss sold over the span of the three day opening weekend. On the 24th of October, the iPhone 4S will be introduced in 22 more countries which should significantly boost those numbers.

Apple is on pace to pass the Kinect for the fastest selling device of all time. In the first 60 days the Kinect went on sale, Microsoft sold 8 million units, which if Apple keeps this pace up it could pass them in theory, in the first two weeks alone.

The success of the iPhone 4S is most likely helped by a few factors:

1. The three U.S. carriers offering the phone: AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint. Last year AT&T was the only carrier that offered the iPhone 4
2. iPhone 4 was released in 5 Countries where the  iPhone 4S was available in 7.
3. Apple made far too few of the iPhone 4s and that caused a huge shortage.
4. The longer wait time in between the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S
5. iPhone 4S has SIRI

The only thing that I have noticed thus far, is the battery life of the iPhone 4S does not seem to live up to expectation; this could be caused by the new iOS 5.