“Apple’s record setting pace of a million iPhone 4S preorders in 24 hours puts the company in a position to sell nearly 3 million devices on launch weekend, and 25 million in the current quarter,” AppleInsider reports.
“Mike Abramsky with RBC Capital Markets believes that preorder numbers for the iPhone 4S put Apple on pace to sell around 3 million in its first weekend,” AppleInsider reports. “That [number] would handily beat Apple’s previous best of 1.7 million units sold in the first three days of availability for the iPhone 4 in 2010.”
AppleInsider reports, “Beyond the launch window, analyst Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray believes that the early sales figures suggest Apple can potentially surpass his previously made prediction of 25 million units sold during the holiday quarter that ends with December.”
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That sure is “disappointing.” 🙂
Staggering!
What a failure!
Looks like the 4S is going to be twice the failure that the iPhone 4 was.
+1
I wonder what the next “xGate” (think antenna) will be?
XGATE….
SIRI won’t work with people who don’t speak “English” resulting in “class” prejudice. Foreigners are the most infringed, then people from Quebec, the Southern States, Boston, New York burghs, New Jersey, etc. It will be a scandal of epic proportions.
However if went to Stanford, grew up in California, Oregon, Washington, or Utah, then no problem.
Thanks for the laugh!
I can’t wait until they’re selling iPhones throughout China!
Yeah, real ones!
Yeah – a RESOUNDING failure!!! (For everyone else – HEH!)
But it does’t have a keyboard, its not a good email machine.
And where is the promised 5″ screen?
I finally thought I would cease use iPhone as phone (since it would be barely possible with such size), but Apple let me down. 🙁
woah.
$$$$.
That is if they can deliver. My verizon order originally said
Thank you for pre-ordering our latest device! We have received your order, and we will let you know as soon as it ships. The expected ship date for your order is 10/14/2011.
But now it says “oh sorry due to high demand it wont be shipped until 10/21
Verizon S*@ks
Let’s get that government expert IT on how the new iPhone 4S with DUAL CORE processor cannot possibly last that long on batteries. I want to hear his analysis. 😉
Never has retail seen products sell at this staggering rate.
NEVER. Android my ass.
@breeze
Dude
Don’t put Android on your ass, it will give you pimples!
May I suggest Preparation-H for that.
Indeed, what a disappointing failure! Now, if I only had a virtual seppuku app which I will give away free to those all-knowing analysts & tech experts.
At 3M phones and the oft-quoted ASP of $650/phone (incl carrier subsidy you pay for), that would mean that in its 1st weekend, AAPL just moved $2B of merchandise that no one outside AAPL has ever held in their hand.
And, at 70% margin, that’s $1.4 Billion earnings. One weekend!
Be hungry stay foolish 🙂
That means that Apple will most likely sell closer to 30mil. 🙂
Now factor in the very likely HUGE number of 3GSes (AT&T only) and 4s (all three carriers) that sold in the last few days, and that number increases again. It’s probably a lot more than you think, given the $100 price point and the pent up desire at Sprint.
Buh-Bye Blackberry! You want have any users left after December
Especially if their network experiences the same kind of MASSIVE FAILURES as those reported the last couple of days!
Samsung and google must be very happy at this moment.
Every so often dumbass analysts pull a correct number out of their ass.
I’m so curious about what’s happening to all those “iPhone 5” cases… what a waste of cheap plastic and silicone.
Maybe some Chinese manufacturer will make a “fake” iPhone 5 that fits into those cases. Or maybe that delayed Samsung Galaxy model will fit it perfectly. If Samsung thought that was the next iPhone, they would be copying it, right?
Oh u haven’t heard…it’s a Samsung Charge! 6″ super amoled screen, 9 mp camera, quad core processor, personal assistant named ziri that uses all of androids “great” features, full myspace integration(bet the iPhone doesn’t have that!), and you get a whole 1 hour of battery life…whereas the name Charge comes in b/c you will never be able to take if off charge!!
Just wait until the actual figures are released and they reveal they sold 2.99 million phones. The bloggers will have a field day and the stock will tank because they “failed to meet expectations”.