Apple garnered one million preorders from U.S. customers on the first day of availability for the Apple Watch, at a relatively high price point.
And in its first day of availability, PayPal was seeing 1,000 new registrants per hour for the new service.
Warner Bros. sold some 600,000 copies of the movie on its first day of availability (Tuesday, Dec. 9), surpassing the previous record, Iron Man, by about 100,000 copies.
Japan has 6 of the 12 models at first day of availability and even China has 2 of the 12 at September 25, the 128GB Silver and Gold models).
On its first day of availability on the App Store since it was – surprisingly, to many – approved by Apple, Opera Mini for iPhone (iTunes link) was downloaded one million times.
The company sold 2 million phones in the first 24-hours of pre-order alone, double the sales of the 4S during its first day of availability.
For comparison's sake, the previous expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, sold 2.8 million copies in its first day of availability.
Microsoft had previously reported that its new console had sold 1 million units in its first day of availability globally, and 3 million through the end of 2013.
In addition to breaking the all-time one day streams record, "Drag" is also the first song to ever make it to number one on Spotify's Global Chart on the first day of availability.
Marcus added that the merchant response to the launch of the product has been "tremendous". And in its first day of availability, PayPal was seeing 1,000 new registrants per hour for the new service.
