{"id":39612,"date":"2009-11-10T16:45:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=79176"},"modified":"2009-11-10T16:45:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:45:36","slug":"droid%e2%80%99s-opening-weekend-solid-but-not-in-iphone-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39612","title":{"rendered":"Droid\u2019s Opening Weekend Solid, But Not in iPhone Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been hiding under a rock for the past several weeks, you&#8217;ve no doubt been bombarded with <a href=\"ttp:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/10\/19\/the-droid-phone-gets-marketing-but-is-that-enough-to-combat-the-iphone\/\">the heavy marketing<\/a> surrounding the new Droid smartphone. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/2009\/11\/10\/opening-weekend-iphone-vs-pre-vs-droid\/\">TheAppleBlog has a good analysis<\/a> of the first weekend of sales for the Droid &#8212; in which 100,000 units moved &#8212; compared with the weekend openings of the iPhone, the iPhone 3G, the iPhone 3GS, and the Palm Pre. In short, the Droid did well, but nowhere near the iPhone releases. The numbers are collected in the chart below. Check <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/11\/10\/heres-why-motorola-bet-on-android\/\">Stacey&#8217;s thoughts from earlier today<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/2009\/11\/10\/opening-weekend-iphone-vs-pre-vs-droid\/\">TheAppleBlog&#8217;s analysis here.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79179\" title=\"chart\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/chart3.jpg?w=564&#038;h=354\" alt=\"chart\" width=\"564\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=79176&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=nufZJqvOZOo:DUBU5oI4488:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=nufZJqvOZOo:DUBU5oI4488:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=nufZJqvOZOo:DUBU5oI4488:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=nufZJqvOZOo:DUBU5oI4488:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=nufZJqvOZOo:DUBU5oI4488:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=nufZJqvOZOo:DUBU5oI4488:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=nufZJqvOZOo:DUBU5oI4488:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=nufZJqvOZOo:DUBU5oI4488:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/nufZJqvOZOo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been hiding under a rock for the past several weeks, you&#8217;ve no doubt been bombarded with the heavy marketing surrounding the new Droid smartphone. 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