“We have been told that online pre-orders between Verizon and Apple amounted to around 550,000 units,” Jonathan S. Geller reports for BGR.
“We also have some statistics on who’s buying Verizon iPhones to share with you: 30% of people buying Verizon iPhones were Android users, just over 25% of people buying iPhone 4 were BlackBerry users, and only 14% of people buying the Verizon iPhone were AT&T iPhone owners,” Geller reports. “The remaining percent didn’t want to say, didn’t have a smartphone, or didn’t have a phone prior to making their iPhone 4 purchases last week.”
Read more in the full article, in which Geller also claims iPhone launch sales “are performing a little under what Apple and Verizon anticipated,” here.
MacDailyNews Take: Please note that the numbers discussed above are rumored figures. Verizon iPhone 4 launch rumor numbers have been as high as 1 million and as low as 100,000; in short, they’re all over the map, so take them all with at least a grain of salt.
UPDATE: 1:20pm ET: Lalit Sharma reports for TechzTalk, “BGR claims Verizon iPhone sales are disappointing, but simple calculation[s] show they are actually excellent numbers.”
“On average, five Apple stores are selling 798 Verizon iPhones per day, that’s 160 Verizon iPhones per day per store. Apple has 236 stores in US, so Apple stores alone are selling 37,760 Verizon iPhone per day. This doesn’t include Apple online sales and iPhone sold at Verizon stores,” Sharma reports. “Around 550,000 Verizon iPhones were pre-ordered, and if we consider just the Apple store sales plus the pre-orders, Apple would sell one million Verizon iPhones in 11 days. That’s 6 times faster than Motorola Droid sales on Verizon, which took over 2 months to reach one million mark after launch. And remember we are not including Verizon iPhone sales through thouands of Verizon stores, Best Buy stores, Walmart and Online Stores.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: BGR needs to lay off the hit-whorish headlines.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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Apparently (if you believe this data), over half of Verizon iPhone customers are switching from the major competitors – Android and BB. The pre-sales number sounds reasonable to me, and nothing to worry about. The period of crazy growth in iPhone unit sales in the U.S. is over. It is slow and steady from here on out. Besides, Verizon cut off pre-orders early. The number could easily have been higher. I am the opposite of worried. Don’t let the FUD get to you.
@kingmel,
“Apparently (if you believe this data), over half of Verizon iPhone customers are switching from the major competitors – Android and BB.”
—- Actually Android is not a phone maker. Its an OS. And those people could have been from a number of places including Verizon.
Just a thought,
en
” The period of crazy growth in iPhone unit sales in the U.S. is over.”
Premature statement … just wait for iPone 5 sales 🙂
T-Mobile please.
Tmobile might look good as far as price for now. Wait till they get the iPhone and they will turn to greed. Up the price on everything… Why? Because they can, and you’ll pay for it..
Competition is good for the market, forces vendors to improve or die off. Verizon is a great addition to the table so people can use the iPhone for making phone calls. FUD is confusing people to worry about the number. the only number that matters is the number of vendors = 2.
TMobile will bring about unlimited data and tethering. I cannot wait to get iPhone5 on TMobile network.
Let us not forget that this was an iPhone 4 sale past the halfway mark of waiting for the iPhone 5. Anybody who has been paying attention since 2008 is waiting…
I knew this, yet still elected to get one. If Apple follows the same pattern, the iPhone 5 won’t be a substantial upgrade, just more of a speed upgrade, like the 3GS; the iPhone 6 should be the substantial upgrade. Also, it often takes developers months to implement new features anyways, and because of the timing of my purchase, I’ll be eligible to upgrade to an iPhone 6 as soon as it hits shelves.
we are kind of on the same page, but I’m waiting for iphone 7
Yes, but if can just hold of for 1 more year, you can get the iPhone 8!! Now THAT’S, worth it!
@MMLH,
“I knew this, yet still elected to get one. If Apple follows the same pattern, the iPhone 5 won’t be a substantial upgrade, just more of a speed upgrade,”
Is this like Star Trek where only even numbered shows were great. ????? LOL
Just a thought,
en
Walked into my local VZ store on Saturday and got one after deferring my upgrade for 9 months on the heels of these rumors.
Is Fred Mertz really still alive? If so, he’s sure active for his age. Does Ethel also work for MDN too?
Alive and kicking and, no, I come to MDN to get away from that nag Ethel.
The bath of blood overfloweth this summer after iPhone 5 makes its splash.
Upgrade? More like a rebirth.
“BGR needs to lay off the hit-whorish headlines.”
That’s great advice, but it sounds awfulyl like the pot calling the kettle black.
Yeah but why if the pot is red or blue??
So basically the Verizon iphone is barely outselling the AT&T iphone which has been available for 8 months. This is the only site that’s trying to sugar coat these statistics. Verizon iphone sales are lower than Verizon and Apple expected. Accept it and stop with the typical 17 excuses (waiting for iphone 5, waiting for contract to expire, ect..) Don’t you think Verizon and Apple took that into consideration? fact is they expected alot more sales and it didn’t pan out.
Don’t forget the weather! remember lots of people stayed home cause it was too cold outside
No one but VZ and AAPL knows what was expected. Been trying and Android phone this week, its going back before the grace period. I bought it because T-Mobile was giving it away fee after rebate and no timeline for T-mobile to get iPhone. I’ll revert to my dumb phone until T-mobile is added.
The pundits have already made up their minds that the Verizon iPhone is a failure and Apple and Verizon don’t know a damn thing about consumers’ demands. Three million consumers didn’t storm the retailers the first week and no riot police were needed so that means no consumers are interested at all in the Verizon iPhone and Apple shareholders are out of luck of ever seeing Apple shares reach $400.
Due to Apple not selling out their entire inventory of Verizon iPhones in a week the iPhone will continue to lose smartphone market share to Android until it’s down to about 2% and Apple will quietly close up shop. The end.
@Licminuts,
Nice spin on your part. The article says that “sales are a little less than Apple and Verizon anticipated”. Your spin is that it is “alot less”.
Make sure when condemning others that you are not guilty of the same. Otherwise your opinions have no credibility.
Not to mention alot is two words:
a lot
Sorry, never one wanting to be the spelling police or grammar nazi, because you should see how I murder the English language, however, when I see ‘alot’ I just snap! Pet-peeve!…
@Now now,
Agreed, hence the quotes. I thought about adding ʻsicʻ, but thought it too pretentious even for me!
Go run a spelling bee instead of wasting BW
So, let me get this straight…
We don’t know what the sales figures are.
We don’t know what the pre-order figures are.
We do know that most Verizon and Apple stores were NOT swarmed with customers on the release date or any days afterwards.
We have a bunch of speculation regarding all the information that we don’t actually have.
We have a bunch of speculation about how the future will unfold but we don’t have any concrete facts to base this on.
So… WHY BOTHER WITH ALL THE BS?
Why bother…?
Slow news day
Bought 2 iPhone 4’s this week at the Verizon store and the sales people told me they are selling 2/3 iPhones to 1/3 “other” smart phones. Not as many in a rush they thought would happen, but way more on a daily basis than any other phone had ever sold.
Actually very few customers bought VZ iPhone (below what Apple was expecting). See for yourself….
if you ask me, Apple waited too long.. You can’t expect the iPhone to take over a market that isn’t there anymore. The competition finally caught up and their chance to completely run the cellular phone market is now gone.
apple should have known better. it was like this at my apple store. it was humiliating
Stopped at my Verizon store in Florida today and they are out of IPhones until 3/1
I know a lot of Verizon users caught up in a two year contract with android phones. It’s only a matter of time before iPhone 5 comes out. If you ask me these are all contributing factors. And I know about 6 different people who got the Verizon iPhone. So what’s the real reason? People who hate apple…
With all these iPhones selling – if anyone breaks em… These guys are the best myiphonerepair.com