“Estimating Alphabet to have sold 900K Pixel units in Q4 2016, analyst Daniel Salmon calculates 6M shipments for the current year, a figure that is calculated to represent approximately 0.4% smartphone market share,” Eric McCaffrey reports for Seeking Alpha.
“Alphabet doesn’t provide concrete Pixel numbers,” McCaffrey reports.
Google has been heavily promoting the Pixel phone on TV, online, and elsewhere since it went on the market on October 4, 2016.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: In the same quarter, Apple sold 78.29 million iPhones in 98 days, or an average of 798,878 iPhones per day. Apple’s iPhone outsold an entire holiday quarter of Google’s latest iPhone wannabe in just over 27 hours.
It is impossible for Apple (under Tim Cook) to meet the expectations of at least some of the people on this forum, and for them, the only solution is for Tim Cook to go. It doesn’t help when Apple has the best quarter in history of corporate America. Neither does it help when AAPL (the stock) hits and all-time high. For them, there will always be something that Apple did wrong, or failed to do, and Cook simply must go.
I am not a Cook defender here, but I would honestly like to know exactly who would be a better person for Apple. Bezos? Marissa Meyer? Nadella? Musk? Who? The pool is very, very shallow.
Predrag, you comment falls short.
Your best CEO now is TC. Like it or not. Nobody has experience in the pipeline supply like Cook. NOBODY. And if you tell me the iPhone 7 is a rebake, go buy one and compare it with what the market has to offers in a whole. You’ll find cheese…
It is a real shame though that WS and a couple of weak souls are up to an anti-Apple propaganda. My guess is, for the non-Apple zealots fanboy, nobody really understand what the giant Apple is up to, everybody bark at Apple for no real reason but to say they want more. They don’t know what they want but they want more. Exactly like spoiled kids…
Apple’s first holiday quarter (Q4 07) they sold only 1.1M units.
Comparing sales of these two products (one in infancy and one 10 years old) is comparing a lemonade stand to the Minute Maid corporation and numbers are meaningless.
Well, I nominated retail chief Angela Ahrendts for CEO with Tim Cook returning to supply chain management as COO. But that was regarded as ludicrous.
Then I proposed that Scott Forstall be lured back to Apple, thence remake software development (esp. OS) and limit Jony Ive to injection moulding and gunstock knurling. Also foolish.
Then I attempted to repaint Tim Cook as an acceptable CEO if he would only start making the decisions Steve Jobs would have made, instead of being himself as Steve poignantly—and mistakenly—advised. No dice.
Sigh. Fire-despised-CEO is a meme that, unfortunately, is unlikely ever to go away, being a signature expression of frustration for authentic stakeholders as well as a joy buzzer for the haters. I believe it to be a minority meme, but the internet amplifies, rather than stills, emotions.
The Pixel is lame, and it’s unavailable. So….?
Some accomolishment.
No worries. Google will soon be copying SamSplode’s incendiary features and they’ll soon explode in sales.
ROFL!
Exploding sales!
That made me laugh!
Ah, but google innovates so much more….
While highly dissapointed in Apple for not providing a decent Pro Mac, this kind of headline is still pleasing me.
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Taking into account that the Pixel is the closest Google has come to releasing a phone completely itself, and that Android has been around for a while, perhaps a better comparison for the single model would be to the 2nd generation iPhone, the iPhone 3G in terms of sale. Google has been also considering building its own chips so the Pixel to iPhone comparison may be more ‘Apples to Apples’ in the future.