Blackfriars’ Marketing co-founder Carl Howe is projecting that “Apple will sell about three million iPhones during the holiday season.”
Howe writes, “And while the iPhone revenue spread over 24 months may pale next to the revenue blowout driven by 30 million iPods, those iPhone sales will be raking in a millions in deferred revenue in subsequent quarters. Think of the iPhone as the gift that keeps on giving all year long — at least to Apple shareholders.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Prior to co-founding Blackfriars, Howe was named as one of the Top 20 Most Influential U.S. Industry Analysts by Technology Marketing magazine based upon his work at Forrester Research where he directed research in networking, computing, and infrastructure and also served as a principal analyst.
Two more in my family alone this holiday season…
I don’t get it. You can get a Motorola Q for $99 and it runs Windows mobile, yet this Howe moron thinks people are going to buy 3 million proprietary Apple I-Phones for $399 each.
How can he call himself an analyst? Why can’t he see that consumers will catch on to saving money and enjoying Microsoft’s customer-focused innovation and ease-of-use in a multitude of mobile phone manufacturers products. For you MAC lemmings it’s called choice. Check it out sometime.
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Hey, I predicted 30 million first.
I predict Zune will sell a record number as well.
I love the smell of my AAPL shock certificates.
It’s like printing my own money these days.
Wonder if Apple will do a 1 for 2 split after the first of the year or if they’ll just pull a Google and let the share price ride on the express train to the stratosphere. Either way green means GO!
Thats awesome. iPhone sales will rocket once 3rd party apps starts to show up. iPod Touch are selling like crazy. I love how the Apple ads actually shows you the actual operation of the iPhone and Touch. Unlike those commercials for Verizon/Sprint/BB/HP, they blah blah blah blah blah and shows you fancy graphics to say they can do amazing things. Yeah… why don’t they actually show it like the iPhone and iPod Touch commercials? They can’t, because its crap. So their are stuck with blah blah blah blah blah and show more fancy graphics…
Zune Tang, you are amazing.
“I don’t get it. You can get a Motorola Q for $99 and it runs Windows mobile, yet this Howe moron thinks people are going to buy 3 million proprietary Apple I-Phones for $399 each. “
Windows Mobile is proprietary. Can a Motorola Q application run on a Palm Treo running Windows Mobile? Plus, Apple is coming out with it’s developer’s kit in about 3 months.
“Why can’t he see that consumers will catch on to saving money and enjoying Microsoft’s customer-focused innovation and ease-of-use in a multitude of mobile phone manufacturers products. For you MAC lemmings it’s called choice. Check it out sometime.”
Ah, phones that freeze. Phones that drop calls. Phones that look like a mullet out of the 80s? Yeah. I like those choices as well.
Yeah, yeah.
I hear the guy who bought the Zune in New York and the guy who bought the Zune in Los Angeles are planning to get together in St. Louis after the holidays and try out that Squirt™ thing.
That’ll be big news!
I think ZuneTang/MacDude or whatever he calls himself nowadays is impressing himself that he’s learned how to use special keyboard symbols like “™” and “®.”
Really Mr. Tang Dude, it’s no big deal.
You Rock Zune Tang! You are one wild and crazy guy.
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I just bought my son an iMac, and he loves it!!!
Stop picking on Zune Tang, he’s like the drunk uncle that everyone loves. Just don’t leave him alone with your daughter.
Please note that henceforth and forever more, anytime any of us us the phrase Zune Tang®, either in a derogatory or complementary fashion, or in any fashion what-so-ever, we’ll need to send $0.25 in royalties, on behalf of Zune Tang®, to Monkey Boy®, c/o Microsoft® Redmond, WA.
Guess I owe ’em $0.50 (or maybe even $0.75 or a $1.00 depending on the status of Monkey Boy® and Microsoft® – oops, that might put it up to a $1.50 now)
You guys can just Bill™ me – damn, that could be another $0.25
Sheez, this intellectual property stuff really adds up quick
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BC
Rats, add the ‘e’ at the appropriate place following the second ‘us’ above
Then fire the proofreader, and get us a new editor 🙁
BC
Shh, don’t mention the Forrester connection, Rob Enderle used to work there too.
I’m buying two iPhones for gifts for my kids, add me to the mix.
@ Bizarro Ballmer
Actually, I predicted 30 million *last* year, and was wrong. I hope we’re both right this year.
actually, I was first to 30m……
3 million Mac’s
30 million iPod’s
3 Million iPhone’s
Well over a month ago in fact.
Well,from his mouth to God’s ears to Apple’s pocket then to shareholder’s benefit
We would sell even more Zunes if they had’nt sold out!
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