Apple®
today announced it has sold over five million of its new iPhone® 5, just three
days after its launch on September 21, and more than 100 million iOS devices
have been updated w
So
how good number is that? Apple sold 5 million iPhone5s in its first weekend, up from 4 million iPhone 4Ss last
year. Is this the biggest and larget selling products of all times
This
number isn’t 10 million or even 8 million or 6 million, so some are saying that
it’s “WORSE THAN
EXPECTED” or “verydisappointing”. his is well below what Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster was
calling for. He predicted 6-10 million for
the opening weekend.
However whatever analysts has to say on the
first week sales, for a company of Apple size
One
week of sale hardly makes a difference as Splatf explains. Some of the
reasons why the iphone sales in the opening week are just statistics are
For
the real story, you need to think about supply anddemand, and once again,
demand surpassed supply.
Mobile
is a complicated industry where 2-year contracts often dictate purchase
decisions.
First-weekend
sales just aren’t that important relative to an iPhone’s lifetime sales.
iPhone
5 is available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan,
Singapore and the UK, and will be available in 22 more countries on September
28 and more than 100 countries by the end of the year