2024-09-20 20:31:38
New Delhi: The sale of Apple iPhone 16 series started from Friday. Huge crowds of people were seen at Apple stores in Delhi and Mumbai to buy it. People were queuing up from night itself. At the same time, its sale also started online on Friday. Quick commerce platforms Blinkit and BigBasket started the facility of delivering this phone to the customer in 10 minutes. The craze of people to buy this phone was also seen on these platforms. Apart from offline, people were seen restless to buy this phone online as well. In view of this, quick commerce companies had already made preparations. In many places, these phones went out of stock.What does Apple make that people start lining up as soon as a new model is launched? Why doesn’t anyone else have that?
Big Basket sells a phone every three minutes
Quick commerce platform Big Basket had already announced that it will deliver iPhone 16 in 10 minutes. The company started its delivery from 8 am. The company’s Chief Grocer Hari Menon told on the social media platform X that the first order came at 8 am, which was delivered to the customer within just 7 minutes. At the same time, Big Basket posted a post from its official X account at around 9 am. In this, it told that the company has sold more than 100 iPhones. The company wrote that it has sold one iPhone every 3 minutes.
Great buy from Blinkit too
Blinkit is also selling iPhone 16 in some areas of Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru and Lucknow. The company claims that it will deliver this phone to the customers in 10 minutes. iPhone sales also started on this quick commerce platform from 8 am. The company’s founder Albinder Dhindsa wrote in a post on X that we are going to cross the 300 iPhone sales mark in a few minutes.
What is the price of this phone?
In the iPhone 16 series, the price of iPhone 16 is Rs 80 thousand. This is the cheapest phone in this series. It has up to 128GB of storage. Apart from this, there is also iPhone 16 Plus and iPhone 16 Pro Max. In this, the price of 128GB Plus is Rs 89,900.