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it may be a big challenge to get the bigger iPhone on launch day and Microsoft is building a new world for Minecraft I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update apple says it's sold a record number of new iPhones in the first 24 hours of pre-orders selling more than 4 million units of the iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus that's about double what the iphone 5 sold on its first day of pre-orders but we really can't compare last year's 5s the same way there was no pre-order option for the 5s but there were nine million total 5s and 5c models sold on the first weekend in stores so this year sales could beat that just based on the pre-order numbers the big question this year surrounds the bigger iPhone based on these pre-orders it's possible that the extra large iphone six-plus could be harder to come by on launch day the pre-order wait time for the six plus quickly jumped to about a month but you can still get the normal iphone 6 and 7 to 10 business days we don't know if that's because more people are buying the plus or that Apple just has fewer of the 6 plus in stock the new iPhones go on sale in stores at eight a.m. local time this Friday but even if you're not getting the new model the updated operating system iOS 8 will be available to download on Wednesday Microsoft is the new owner of minecraft one of the most popular games in the world right now Microsoft purchased mo yang it's the Swedish video game company that created minecraft for two and a half billion dollars if you're unfamiliar with Minecraft you could think of it as a world of virtual Legos people just have fun building block e worlds and interacting with other builders there's no story line but the creative freedom of it draws in players across many demographics there have been about 50 million copies sold and it's played across multiple systems that's what makes this purchase so interesting Microsoft now owns a game that's playable on the PlayStation on Apple's iOS and on Android normally Microsoft own games like Halo are exclusive to Microsoft systems microsoft says it will continue to support n evolve the game across those other platforms minecraft isn't currently on Windows Phones but you can bet it will be soon and maybe minecraft on xbox or Windows could have extra perks talked a little about Microsoft and Apple but to round it out there's also news on Google the company's bringing affordable Android smartphones to developing countries with a project called Android one it's launching first with India this Android one phone costs about one hundred dollars but it's not just about the price it's also about having that Android experience be consistent across devices it'll run this pure version of Android that isn't mucked up with extra software and Google will push out regular software updates so users are not left behind with new features come out a year later that's your tech news update but if you crave more head to cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey