Its total sales including the pre-orders that shipped. However it does not includes the sales that are still on wait.
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iPhone 5 Sales Top Five Million in Launch Weekend
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Its total sales including the pre-orders that shipped. However it does not includes the sales that are still on wait.
I think the 5M includes pre-orders. What I'm curious about is whether this includes phones sold through the carriers. Does anyone remember announcements from previous years? I feel like at&t and other carriers will release their own sales figures separate from Apple's.
Just shows why analysts are analysts and not CEO's
How could apple sell more than "sold out"?
Maybe if they spend more time analyzing the supply chains than the lines of people camping out they'd have better credibility.
How could apple sell more than "sold out"?
Maybe if they spend more time analyzing the supply chains than the lines of people camping out they'd have better credibility.
Business Insider already has a headline up: "iPhone opening weekend sales come in worse than expected". Ok since the Apple store is showing 3-4 weeks for delivery, and carriers like Verizon are saying they won't have stock until the 19th isn't it mor a case of not being able to meet the demand? I mean if sales were weak the phone wouldn't be hard to get would it?
I bet the FedEx and UPS drivers can vouch for that number. Their backs and knees are probably still recovering.
i would like to see those fandroids here right now... because i wan to shout at their faces "WHO SAID APPLE WAS FOREVER DOOMED?!"
You should see them all over at GSMArena! I've never seen such a bunch of hardcore fanboys in my life! They are currently having a field day with the Maps issue & the alleged chipping of the black iPhone 5.
Sad people.
Remember...these things need to be built first!
Maybe the analysts should remember that there is a limit to how many widgets you can build given X weeks/months of lead time. Apparently only perceived demand was taken into account. Why are these people's opinions valued in the market?
Maybe the analysts should remember that there is a limit to how many widgets you can build given X weeks/months of lead time. Apparently only perceived demand was taken into account. Why are these people's opinions valued in the market?
The online pre-orders sold out way faster than last year so analysts assumed that stores would sell twice as many over the weekend too.
They somehow forgot that clicking on a website isn't the same as getting a human body into a store and that it may not be physically possible to double the amount of people in an Apple store from last year's super-busy time period.
But never the type to let things like 'logic' or 'physics' get in their way, analysts pushed ahead with the "they'll sell twice as many" idea, no matter how little sense it made.
I wonder how many of the 5 mil are upgrades vs new iphone customers. I imagine a significant number are upgrades from the 3g/4/4s - that means there are millions of used iphones about to flood ebay and craigslist. What will that mean for those of using looking to score an awesome deal on an older model?
Yes because selling out is a reason for people to sell off the stock. Tim only knows how many pre-orders are sitting waiting to be filled as they build more units. It's a supply issue. Not a lack of demand.
The units shipped would be considered "sold," but not the ones not yet shipped.
Sounds like first world Apple problem.
This is another case of analysts getting carried away with their expectations. Apple announced 1 million pre-orders for the 4S and sold 4 million the first weekend, so analysts extrapolated 2 million pre-orders into 8-10 million sales. While that would have been incredible, 5 million isn't bad. It's probably more a sign of supply constraint than anything else. Remember, Apple never published any formal sales predictions for the iPhone 5 launch.
We'll probably see analysts ratchet back their sales estimates for the September quarter, and some might re-think their 50-60 million estimates for the December quarter. It's going to come down to supply, it seems. However, there is another launch this Friday in 22 countries, plus additional launch week sales in the original 8 that will get into this quarter.
Lots of stores had stock, but not throughout the day. Lines were orderly but not around the block all weekend.
No not correct. We said the phone was a fail, but it would sell like hot cakes because of the fanboys, and indeed we were correct on all accounts.
Wonder how many of those 5 million have been or are in the process of being returned, 2 million?