Apple sells 1 million iphones in 3 days

In just three days, Apple sold one million 3G iPhones after its launch in the United States, Hong Kong and 20 other countries, the company said today. The Cupertino company also said more than 10 million applications were downloaded from its newly opened App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. Independent developers have created mobile applications that range from games to location-based social networking. More than 800 applications are available through the App Store. More than 200 are free and those for sale cost less than $10.

On Friday, iPhone consumers, including some who waited outside Apple stores overnight, were frustrated when the company’s iTunes server was overwhelmed by a global crush of simultaneous requests from new iPhone users and those updating the software for the older version of the iPhone and the iPod touch. The over-burdened system prevented some phones from immediately being fully activated.