Apple sold its one millionth 3G iPhone on Sunday, reports the company. That's up from about 300,000 sold over the first three days of the first iPhone launch. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Apple chief flack Katie Cotton, in a statement attributed to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. We're surprised Cotton didn't also have Jobs say that the weekend was "extraordinary," "incredible," "tremendous," and "unprecedented." Jobs also "said" it took 74 days for Apple to sell as many of the first generation iPhones last year.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster — whose numbers you should take with a grain of salt as he incorrectly estimated Apple only sold 425,000 3G iPhones over the weekend — credited international availability and a 60 percent price cut for the 300 percent increase. Sales would have been even brisker, Munster noted, if it hadn't taken Apple 15 minutes to activate each iPhone. Last year it took only about 60 seconds.

We know at least two people who won't complain about the 14 minute delay: Apple store employee Teresa Wlasiuk and vegan activist Daniel Bowman Simon. He's the guy who began waiting in line at New York's Fifth Avenue Apple store on July 4th in order to buy the first two iPhones sold on July 11. She's the girl he asked on a date during the process.

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