[tenpaiyomi]

It'd be interesting to see a by-country breakdown of sales, given that they added 2 new markets to this release, China and Puerto Rico, having 1.35b and 3.6m populations, respectively. This first weekend could have been great....or it could have been subpar in comparison to the last release, depending on markets.

[mikeash]

I think we can exclude PR.

The iPhone 5 sold about two million units on its opening weekend in China, so adding that to its original opening weekend (which didn't include China) and you get about seven million "opening weekend" sales including China's.

So that's seven versus nine million, still a substantial increase.

[ZeroGravitas]

7 million iPhone 5 devices, vs 9 million iPhone 5s + 5c?

So we still need an estimate of iPhone 4S sales the weekend after the price drop (including in China) to compare fully.