On Friday, November 3, in more than fifty countries of the "first wave" went on sale a new flagship Apple iPhone X. This is the most expensive smartphone in the US, it costs from 999 dollars, in Germany - from 1149 euros. Hundreds of people in New York, Berlin, Beijing lined up in queues to become the first happy owners of the new gadget.

Noch 10 Minuten bis #iphonex #berlin pic. twitter. com / yWsTTWKgyL - apfeltalk (@apfeltalk) November 3, 2017 Hundreds of Muscovites lined up for iPhone X - https: // t. co / sD0EqzTbiT # Apple #IPhoneX # MOSCOW # smartphoneshttps: // t. co / CPrwphG2CI. pic. twitter. com / GUlSHGCTJ5 - Subnews (@subnews_ru) November 2, 2017 Previous models - Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus appeared on the market on September 22. Skeptics feared that many users will not buy these smartphones in anticipation of a new version. However, as the chief of concern Tim Cook said, both versions of iPhone 8 became the most purchased models of the quarter.

On the eve of the launch of sales of the iPhone X, Apple released its fourth quarter financial statements. The company's revenue for July-September 2017 amounted to 52.

6 billion dollars, almost 2 billion more than the expectations of experts and an increase over the previous year by 12 percentage points. The main contribution was made by iPhone sales - 46.7 million iPhones were sold for 28.8 billion dollars.

Apple expects that the first quarter of the financial year 2018 will be even more impressive due to the expected jump in demand for the iPhone X. Analysts forecast revenue in October-December from 84 to 87 billion dollars. In the last three months of 2016, the company earned $ 78.4 billion, which was the historic high for its quarterly profit.