“Verizon released their Q4 2012 earnings today, and as we already knew, the carrier announced that they activated 9.8 million smartphones in the quarter gone by,” Yoni Heisler reports for Network World. “But what we didn’t know, until now, was what percentage of that figure were iPhone activations.”
“All told, Verizon activated 6.2 million iPhones, with nearly half of them being the iPhone 5,” Heisler reports. “Put differently, the iPhone accounted for 63.2% of all of Verizon’s smartphone sales this past quarter. That figure represents the highest proportion of iPhones sold in any previous quarter.”
Heisler reports, “Last quarter, Verizon activated 3.1 million iPhones, which accounted for approximately 46% of their total smartphone activations.”
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But…but…but…No one likes the iPhone any more! It’s not bleeding edge any more! There’s no innovation from Apple there any more! How can this be?
The recent massive FUD campaigns—whether promulgated by Apple’s competitors or by stock traders or by mean-spirited Lilliputians—don’t seem to be working very well. The gold is shining right through the tarnish.
AT&T will probably sell even more than Verizon. That makes it about 13 million iPhones with just these two carriers. That means approx. 40 million will have to come from Europe, China, Japan, and ROW. Not sure that can happen. Can it?
Last year Apple was 55%, of Verizon’s smart phone sales in q4, this year it’s 62%, despite buy one Samsung, get a fake iPhone for free.
It could also be those fake iPhone contracts are being renewed and the idiots have come to understand, it is the same contract and the monthly cost dwarfs the difference in the smart phone cost. Should have got the iPhone the first time.
Paging Page… Mr. Page! Paging Mr. Page!! Goolge’s Mr. Larry ‘How Well is your “Thermonuclear War” working Page!!!
Hello?…
Profit is going to be obscene in Cupertino.
So, when all the big service groups in China are offering the iPhone, iPad and iPan mini, we will see the same percent of market share in China. Tim Cook said that the total sales in China will be bigger than the USA.
I can live with that!
Note: The iPhone 4 was FREE and most people paid up for the better iPhone 5. So why does Apple need to offer a cheeper iPhone. What is cheeper than FREE? Do you wrap the iPhone in a hundred dollar bill? Apple doesn’t need cheeper iPhones. Apple need analysts with an IQ greater than a rock.
Why do people continue to equate free in emerging markets with subsidized in the U.S.? Isn’t it clear by now that they are not the same thing? If you can get an iPhone 4 in the states for free with a 2 year contract, the carrier is paying Apple for the phone and gouging you for service fees to get the money back. If the same device were sold in a country where telcos offer no subsidy, the buyer would pay upwards of $250 for it. Hardly free.
in India iphone 4s still costs 27000 Rs. which is 500$. its not cheap and not many Indians can afford it.
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In India iPhone5 costs 45000 Rs which is 820$. People can only dream of buying it….
but im not saying Apple should worry about them it should concentrate on quality and support.