Gadget lovers still can’t resist the iPhone’s seductive call, even amid a bevy of enticing lower-priced alternatives that offer similar features. Meanwhile, a German hacker group has managed to bypass the fingerprint security.
In a Monday announcement, Apple Inc. said it sold 9 million of its top-of-the-line iPhone 5S and less-expensive iPhone 5C during their first three days on sale. That trounced the performance of last year’s model, the iPhone 5, which sold 5 million units in its opening weekend.
The initial sales figures for Apple’s latest iPhone models provided the latest testament to the product’s enduring appeal more than six years after the debut of the first iPhone triggered a mobile computing revolution.
“The demand for the new iPhones has been incredible,” Apple CEO Tim Cook crowed in a statement.
A spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club said that during the weekend the group managed to fool the biometric sensor in the iPhone 5S by creating an artificial copy of a genuine fingerprint.
