Apple has finally shown its hand. At the end of last week the company released a statement claiming that it had been “blown away” by pre-order sales. Today, Monday 17th, Cupertino announced that 2 million iPhone’s were pre-ordered in the first 24 hours. To put that in to perspective: it’s more than double what the iPhone 4S did last year. Matt Brian, editor over at TNW, broke it down on twitter:

Twenty-three iPhones every second. Considering it only launched in 12 countries, that’s some pretty impressive going right there.

“iPhone 5 preorders have shattered the previous record held by iPhone 4S and the customer response to iPhone 5 has been phenomenal,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “iPhone 5 is the best iPhone yet, the most beautiful product we’ve ever made, and we hope customers love it as much as we do.”

So there we have it, the iPhone 5 is a record-breaking iPhone. And it does seem as though most of the tech industry’s skepticism hasn’t rubbed off on the public who are more impressed than ever before by the iPhone.

Via: AppleInsider