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After onerous promotion, including a lowercase negative advertising, Verizon launched the Droid over the weekend, and digit life after the prototypal income estimates are in: 100,000.

Speaking with Bloomberg, Analyst Mark McKechnie of Broadpoint AmTech thinks that’s pretty good. Noting that Verizon had 200,000 Droids on the shelves for launch, he said most stores oversubscribed at small half their inventory.

“I wager the prototypal some life as encouraging,” McKechnie said. “There seems to be pretty beatific obligation — they’ve condemned the correct steps and picked a beatific relation with Google on the Android side.”

While that haw be true, scrutiny the Droid to the iPhone and the Palm Pre during their start weekends paints a assorted picture…or chart.

According to Apple, both the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS oversubscribed more than a meg units during their prototypal weekend. Some strength debate that’s an dirty comparison, in that both iPhones were acquirable in multiple countries. Both also benefited from the App Store, though that was farther more of an plus for the 3GS. When the iPhone 3G went on sale, there were exclusive 500 apps available, compared to more than 10,000 for the Droid now.

Still, a more clean comparability strength be institute with the example iPhone, as it likewise was oversubscribed in the U.S. on a azygos network. However, it should also be spinous discover that Verizon has more customers than AT&T, and that the example iPhone was not a 3G device, and that the 8GB help outlay $599.

Nonetheless, Verizon’s 100,000 Droids looks pretty beatific incoming to Apple’s 270,000 iPhones, eliminate for only one thing. That sort does not allow Sun sales, which lapse on July 1 and were conception of a recent quarter. It’s rattling doable Apple oversubscribed as some as 400,000 iPhones during that prototypal weekend of lines around the block.

Of course, lines aren’t everything. As Verizon representative king Samberg said to CNET regarding Friday’s Droid launch, “long lines forming right are flashy,” but the content is a “a stabilize course of people” over life and weeks. Perhaps the Droid would be meliorate compared to Palm’s smartphone, which is estimated to hit oversubscribed around 50,000 units during its start weekend.

It’s looks same Verizon haw hit a “Pre killer” in the Droid.