“When Apple Inc. releases its iPhone 5 for sale at retail stores Friday, the company will be looking to upgrade its already large base of existing customers, as well as convert others using rival devices,” Dan Gallagher reports for MarketWatch.
“Most of the initial rollout is expected to involve the former, with faithful Apple customers queuing at the company’s retail stores for a chance to get the latest version of the popular smartphone — after the iPhone 5’s pre-order run sold out on the Apple website in 24 hours,” Gallagher reports. “But to meet Wall Street’s high expectations for the device, Apple also will need to keep bringing in customers who are new to the smartphone market — as well as entice others who are using competitors’ products, including Samsung, Motorola and BlackBerry devices… ‘I think you’ll see a lot of people switching from BlackBerry and some switching from Android,’ predicted Carolina Milanesi of market-research firm Gartner, speaking of the Google’s mobile operating system featured on most Samsung smartphones.”
Gallagher reports, “In the meantime, many analysts expect Apple to sell 10 million iPhone 5 units or more in the first two weeks after the launch, ending the company’s fourth fiscal quarter. Total iPhone shipments for the December period are expected to be somewhere in the 45 million to 50 million range, based on current published estimates… ‘The main driver of iPhone sales momentum into mid-2013 could be China, where Apple needs to strike a deal with China Mobile for the first time,’ Ben Reitzes of Barclays Capital said.”
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Is it me or is there an insane number of ads on MDNs pages these days? I can’t even move my mouse without triggering some sort of pop up ad.
“These days”? It’s been a shameless abomination ever since I’ve been coming here. You need to use Safari with the Ghostery plugin.
You have a mouse?
Try AdBlock and get a MacBookPro. I haven’t used a mouse since 2006.
just means MDN is successful…you can always block ads and tracking sites with Collusion for Safari.
I’m getting fed up with the ads as well. Usually I watch MDN from my iPad and they’re not an issue, but lately I’ve been using my desktop. But three different recommendations for blocking ads in 3 posts. What’s the general consensus? Which is the best?
You pay for what you get. There is no free lunch.
It is not just MDN, the whole Internet is one big commercial now.
MDN lives or dies with Ad revenue. You can’t get this almost daily service without navigating the Ad land mines.
There are similar services with no Ads and monthly/yearly fees. Do you really want to take that route? It won’t be as good as MDN no matter the price you pay.
I really really hate the flashing ads. Am I really fat or something? All I get is these flashing ‘fat’ ads. Who really clicks them on MDN? These are not very well targeted ads. I would prefer to see ads of something I might want to buy related to my Apple products here.
My favorites are the flashing “Meet singles in your area” ads.
How is that going for you?
Alas, no luck.
What? You mean you don’t want to buy the Samsung Entro from the ad up in the left corner?
AdBlock
19 Ads on this page, and that’s not counting the really annoying banner ad that usually opens at the very bottom across the whole web page and starts playing automatically if you happen to mouse over it. Great for surfing MDN at work (not).
And yes, esp. at work many of us are still using a mouse.
Yup.. I’ll be upgrading my 4 to a 5 when my contract expires in Oct and the wife will be taking the 4 while happily tossing her Droid Incredible 2. She will be getting the 5S or whatever it will be called when her contract is up next year. Ahhh compromises.. 😉
SamDung customers would rather SWITCH (to iphone 5) than Fight..
MDN needs to monetize. I just ignore the ads. It’s no skin off my butt. It’s a free site so I just expect it to be financed through ads like any other internet site. It’s how the world at large works.
“But to meet Wall Street’s high expectations for the device, Apple also will need to…” what, believe these idiots? There is no possible benefit to Apple customers, their shareholders or even the smartphone technology sector in listening to Wall Street.