Wait a minute, I was just reading this forum last week and everyone said Apple had failed and all shareholders would be selling their stock immediately.
What happened?
What happened?
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c Sales Top Nine Million in Launch Weekend
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
If the other article that found the 5S sold 3.4x better than the 5C, then you're numbers are close (~2.05 million 5C and ~6.95 million 5S).
By comparison, Samsung shipped 10 million Galaxy S4 phones in their first 28 days of availability. But of course, the iPhone is stale and just a rehash of last years model ya know....
Think of it this way... Imagine how many they would have sold if it had been something a bit more. There are TONS of people like me with a 4S that just went "meh.. I'll wait". People are locked into the eco-system and even if they released the same damn phone in just a different color they would still sell millions just to meet all the contract upgrades. The people that say apple is Doomed are idiots... There are simply WAY too many people locked into iTunes and at this point they could keep selling millions of them by doing pretty much nothing to each new version. I do like the iOS7 though, made my 4S feel like a new phone!!
My point is, they could see insane numbers when they release a phone that makes people say "OMG, I have to have it!!". Not sure if they have anohter one of those phones left in them.
No sir. Apple does NOT count shipments to end users UNTIL THEY ARRIVE, but they DO count shipments to retailers the moment they ship.
We go through this every year. Like my post from last year:
Btw, what do you think of Cook being a Duke fan ?! Go Heels!
*Generic good job Apple post*
Good job Apple!
However I would like to see the split of the 5C/5S. Only because I have seen a LOT of 5C's over the last few days.
London btw folks.
Good job Apple!
However I would like to see the split of the 5C/5S. Only because I have seen a LOT of 5C's over the last few days.
London btw folks.
It did, but that really should not be relevant. Apple last year sold 5 million in it's launch weekend, but it could have sold more.
It simply did not have enough inventory. So, the issue concerning the amount of phones Apple sold had to do with Apple's capacity to build the devices quickly enough to sell them not how many countries it was available in.
We all know people are still waiting for phones. So, this means the story is Apple was able to supply an additional 4 million phones in three days and people bought them.
Very unlikely. Apple was selling more 4S's than 5's, so why would the inverse be true with the 5C and 5S?
I'm not trying to raise a other competitor vs apple debate however the facts are that other competitors have multiple devices with varying release cycles - and a market for all of them.
If we took all of android activations/day vs all of iOS activations/day the clear winner would be android.
Apple quotes actual sales, not units shipped and always has. And the 5s & 5c are both newly released models, whereas only the S4 was a newly released model for Samsung at that time. So either way, it still took Samsung at least 9x longer to sell the same volume of a new device, so my point still stands.
Clearly there aren't TONS of people like you since they just sold more iPhones than ever before during a launch.
Did you survey 3 people and when they all said "Meh" you assumed this meant everyone felt that way?
Clemson will take care of the entire Raleigh-Durham cabal this year
Football only. basketball is not a real sport.
Because the 4S was still a premium product whose build might still be preferred to the 5, while the 5C is not.
New year, same story.
I love watching the clowns on Wall Street scramble to gather up the shares they dumped just weeks ago on the thought that Apple was done. We aren't even to October yet. Wait until they unleash new iPads, Macs, Mavericks, etc.
To me, the 200 million iOS 7 activations is the most impressive stat here. If you consider that they have sold 700 million iOS devices over the years, that number is incredible. So much for them ruining iOS forever.
I love watching the clowns on Wall Street scramble to gather up the shares they dumped just weeks ago on the thought that Apple was done. We aren't even to October yet. Wait until they unleash new iPads, Macs, Mavericks, etc.
To me, the 200 million iOS 7 activations is the most impressive stat here. If you consider that they have sold 700 million iOS devices over the years, that number is incredible. So much for them ruining iOS forever.
Not really. This implies that the demand last year for opening weekend for the iPhone was only 5 million. That simply is not true. The demand was higher. Apple just could not meet the demand. People waited weeks for their phones last year as many wanting the 5S will wait this year. So, the amount of Countries is irrelevant because even had China been included in Apple's opening weekend last year, Apple still would have only sold 5 million. That was all the inventory it had. Apple added China this year because with the 5c it felt it could build an additional 4 million.
So the story is Apple could build and sell and additional 4 million phones in three days. The included countries are irrelevant.
When is it a Sale
They may have sold them but when will we get them,
I ordered at 12.02 am in UK and my delivery date is 10th October
So is that a sale or a order ?
They may have sold them but when will we get them,
I ordered at 12.02 am in UK and my delivery date is 10th October
So is that a sale or a order ?
Last edited:
No - because on the launch weekend, sales will skew more likely to the top model due to early adopters. The sales will even out more as time goes on. Assuming the 5C sold 2-3 million models, that matches Apple's average selling total for all iPhones the past year, so there was significant interest in the 5C this weekend.
5s way out front
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...lar-than-iphone-5c-on-launch-weekend---report
Makes sense given early adopters wanting the newer technology.
Heh.
9 Million.
Now watch as the haters who said "no one is buying the 5c which means it failed" will now say "half of that 9 million is the 5c which means the 5s failed."
Leo
9 Million.
Now watch as the haters who said "no one is buying the 5c which means it failed" will now say "half of that 9 million is the 5c which means the 5s failed."
Leo
Last edited:
But the old model sees a price drop, which makes the people waiting finally order.
Which would be an important distinction if supplies to carriers and retailers weren't constrained.
Everyone's got their own flaws. His just happens to be a massive one.
Last edited:
