Apple forecast to sell 8m iPhone 5s next weekend
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Two long-time Apple watchers have said they are "confident" the Cupertino company can shift 8 million iPhone 5 handsets during the three days after the smartphone goes on sale.
The iPhone 5 chalked up more than 2 million advance orders after Apple began taking them, and that's convinced Piper Jaffray analysts Gene Muster and Douglas Clinton a further 6 million will be sold over the release weekend.
The new Apple phone ships on 21 September, this coming Friday.
The iPhone 4S' launch last year saw an initial million pre-orders followed by sales of 4m units during its first three days of availability. With the iPhone 5 doubling its predecessor's pre-order count, Munster and Clinton reckon first three-day sales will likewise increase 100 per cent.
They believe at worst Apple will sell 6 million units in total in the first weekend.
Some caution is required. Apple admitted yesterday that, of those 2 million pre-orders, not all will be met on the 21st, with "many" not shipping until October. Since advance orders don't actually count as sales until they ship, that immediately knocks back the pre-order contribution to opening weekend sales. ®
COMMENTS
Re: So, come the revolution.....
Oh please! Buying a different brand of consumer goods from another mega-sized multinational capitalist organisation does not make you a revolutionary.
You're just as much of a tool as the most ardent fanboi - you just have a different label.
Context?
Do I recall correctly that the Galaxy S3 managed 9 million advance orders? Or am I hallucinating?
GJC
Re: So, come the revolution.....
Is it suitably ironic that there's a big enough one in China already?
Re: What irks me...
That's the whole point ... we can't really believe any of these figures. Everyone will be pulling all and any tricks they can to gain the upper hand in the press.
And to play petty with each other while inconveniencing the customer ... yeh, make a profit, but not while pissing off the people that ultimately buy the product and pay the bills.
What irks me...
... is that Samsung are making 5m S3's a month. If they're doing that, then why the hell can't Apple produce enough and put a stop to all this speculation crap.
Do they really think that little of their loyal customers (and I'm not one of them, by the way) that they can work them up in to a frenzy so that Apple can profit from the speculators like this?
If they had a reasonable number of handsets ready (and given the Samsung production figures, and all the rumours that have been going around for a while, proving that the 5 wsa in production for some time) then why the hell do they treat people like this? The only reason I can think of is, profit. And that's reason enough for me to be turned off Apple.
