How many iPhones has Apple sold?
Apple releases its quarterly earnings today in a ceremony the investment community has quickly embraced as Count the iPhones Day. You may recall that during Apple’s first-quarter earnings announcement in January, the company announced that it had sold 2.3 million phones during the three-month period, bringing total iPhone sales to 4 million since the June 2007 launch. Those figures wound up setting the Internet abuzz in a merry game of Where Are the Missing iPhones, with the explanation ultimately being the most likely one.
Expect more of the same today, only hopefully without so much speculation and guesswork. Apple will report how many iPhones it sold between the start of January and the end of March. Analysts will quickly calculate how many iPhones the company has sold to date and whether that total puts Apple on pace to meet its 10-million-iPhones-sold goal by year’s end. And analysts will pester Apple executives Peter Oppenheimer and Tim Cook for more details about the iPhone’s reported expansion into Italy and the possibility of it reaching China, while Oppenheimer and Cook deftly avoid saying anything beyond re-iterating Apple’s previously state roll-out plans for the iPhone.
It’s more fun than I’m making it sound, actually. If you’d like to follow along at home, Macworld will have live coverage of Apple’s second-quarter earnings announcement later today. In the meantime, you can whet your appetite for iPhone-themed facts and figures by gazing at AT&T’s quarterly results. The telecom giant — and iPhone partner — saw its profit rise 22 percent, thanks in part to iPhone sales.
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Apple iPhone is one of the best cell phones i have come across.
Posted by Jac | April 23, 2008 2:52 PM
Let's see:
1. Steve Jobs in January's MacWord reported that 4 million iPhones were sold.
2. In this quarter's report, Apple reported 1.7 million iPhones were sold.
Thus so far, 5.7 million iPhones were sold.
As more countries sign up for the iPhone, as the iPhone 2.0 software release is looming, as the iPhone 3G version is looming for release, it is highly realistic to reach the 10 million iPhone goal with 3 more quarters to go.
For example: if iPhone sales are flat, and Apple sells just 1.7 million iPhones a quarter, then Apple will sell 5.1 million more iPhones by the end of 2008. Thus Apple will then have sold 10.8 million iPhones by the end of 2008 - well exceeding their initial estimate of 10 million iPhones!!!!
But if iPhone sales accelerate - because of iPhone 2.0 software, the new iPhone 3G (of which many current owners will upgrade), and more countries signing up for the iPhone (e.g. Italy recently being added), then Apple will completely and utterly blow pass the 10 million iPhone estimate!!!!
I, myself, will purchase the new 3G phone, upgrading my old iPhone 4Gig model. Thus from myself alone, Apple will sell 2 iPhones before 2008. There are millions of users like me.
Since the iPhone can be easily unlocked with software such Ziphone, even more users can purchase the iPhone. For example, as a gift to family members (without having to purchase a data plan), the iPhone becomes a no-brainer replacement for their current Razrs (which are on ATT or T-mobile). Thus the iPhone can easily be sold to even more people.
This is why Apple's 10 million iPhone sales estimate - which people thought to be unrealistic - is not only easily met by Apple, but will also be far exceeded by Apple.
This can only mean great things for Apple's stock price. I love it when the stock tanks because it only creates a buying opportunity!
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April 24, 2008 8:54 AM