Apple Announces Over Two Million iPhone 5 Pre-Orders in First Day of Sales

[BaldiMac]

Keep in mind that one thing he does not mention is that Samsung produces something on the order of 10x different models of smart phones vs 3 for Apple. It is obvious to me that Samsung would have a larger share of smart phone market given the larger amount of different phones that they have on the market. It is a Apples to Oranges comparison.

I think the fact that Samsung produces more models is irrelevant by itself. The fact that they hit much lower price points outside the US and in the prepaid market is what gives the comparison a bit of perspective.

I would bet that the iPhone outsells all Android phones on the carriers it is offered at the specific price points it competes at.

In my opinion, Android's primary advantages over the iPhone in market share have nothing to do with the number of models or customization or feature checklists or product cycles. It simply comes down to price, distribution/carrier availability, and manufacturing capacity. As far as I know, there is one carrier where Android does not have any of these advantages (AT&T). And the iPhone completely dominates (60+% of all phones. Not just smartphones.)

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If I am not mistaken Samsung did report that they had 9M SGIII in their sales channels.

Nope. They just announced 9 million preorders by carriers. No sales. No shipments.

 

[skatejolly]

This was a BiG let down!! Steve Jobs is probably turning over in his grave about this horrible iphone update. It should been revamped in a big way!! Even the ios 6 update is horrible. Every year they introduce better apps for the ios ad big improvements on them. To me it felt like minor upgrades for the ios6. I been looking at the s3 for months and the Note2 and now just saw a potential HTC 5″ phone, cant wait to see the HTC conference when I get home from work Wednesday to see what HTC has in store..

 

[CausticPuppy]

Sadly many of the people who buy the iPhone think it's still the best thing out there. Yea the iPhone 5 will sell like hotcakes. But when you consider that video of those people who thought the iPhone 4S was the new iPhone 5 and wanted to get it...well that say's a lot. Next year when Apple releases the iPhone 5S, all they'll probably add is a different colored/toned back and they'll make billions.

Not hating on Apple, just saying the facts.

Speaking of facts--- do you seriously think that 100% of the people they interviewed thought that the 4S was the 5?

Imagine this..... you have an agenda, you can interview 100 people.... and maybe 80 of them won't be fooled, and will correctly state that the phone they are being shown isn't actually an iPhone5.

Then you cherry-pick the best responses from the remaining 20, and you ONLY show the responses from people who didn't know what they were looking at.

That's television for you.

 

[dude-x]

This is the problem of America today. Pay it off in chunks?! So what's your effective purchase price including APR?!

I would never take a loan out ever to purchase any item. In fact, waited till I had $$$$$ in the bank to buy a brand new car with a cashiers check.

Whats with people who can't afford apple being so obsessed over it.

But hey whatever pleases you I guess. So this is how hipsters are able to afford their products.

You need to establish and maintain a good credit history to make large purchases like a house. Anyway, I get 0% interest for 6 months, so it's not a big deal to pay it for it in installments. Also I can afford it, but why spend so much cash upfront when there's no risk to use the credit?

Also the iPhone 5 exceeds my expectations. It's what the 4S should have been.

 

[DJTaurus]

The iPhone 5 surpasses the Galaxy S III in web traffic volume in just 18 days

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/10/12/chitika-web-traffic-iphone-5-galaxy-s-iii/

 

[samcraig]

The iPhone 5 surpasses the Galaxy S III in web traffic volume in just 18 days

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http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/10/12/chitika-web-traffic-iphone-5-galaxy-s-iii/

Relatively meaningless. Why? Because those on S3 devices have most likely had them for awhile and aren't downloading/transferring Apps, accessing iCloud (or a similar service) for backups, music, etc as those people who JUST got their iPhone.

Initial web traffic/app downloads/etc are always going to spike or be at their highest at/around launch. People are putting their phone "through the paces"

 

[DJTaurus]

Relatively meaningless. Why? Because those on S3 devices have most likely had them for awhile and aren't downloading/transferring Apps, accessing iCloud (or a similar service) for backups, music, etc as those people who JUST got their iPhone.

Initial web traffic/app downloads/etc are always going to spike or be at their highest at/around launch. People are putting their phone "through the paces"

Ofcourse its meaningless..... sooooo what about this? Any explanation on that?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57464763-37/apples-ios-grabs-65-of-mobile-web-traffic/

You dont have to explain the article below... Apple has no real competition on tablets..
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12...-based-web-browsing-with-98-share-report-says

It seems android users spent more of their time with flashing those angly criscelo custom roms and less for surfing the web.... but wait... flashing custom roms is no way meaningless....

 

[samcraig]

Ofcourse its meaningless..... sooooo what about this? Any explanation on that?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57464763-37/apples-ios-grabs-65-of-mobile-web-traffic/

You dont have to explain the article below... Apple has no real competition on tablets..
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12...-based-web-browsing-with-98-share-report-says

It seems android users spent more of their time with flashing those angly criscelo custom roms and less for surfing the web.... but wait... flashing custom roms is no way meaningless....

You're funny.

The iOS 6 traffic has the same issue. People get a new OS - they quickly put it through it's paces. That being said - there's no denying that iOS devices are plentiful and people surf like crazy on them - like tablets.

But that doesn't negate that this current chart is pretty meaningless. No matter how many other charts/stats you want to throw to "justify" them.