“The iPhone 3GS sold more than one million units during its first weekend at market. The iPhone 4 sold more than 1.7 million. The iPhone 4S sold more four million, and the iPhone 5 more than five million. But those were all single devices,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD. “How many iPhones can Apple sell in a weekend when it’s peddling two new models, not just one?”
“Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster was among the analysts issuing Wednesday research notes hazarding a guess as to how many units of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c Apple can sell between Friday and Monday,” Paczkowski reports. “He expects Apple to sell between five million and six million iPhones over the weekend. At the low end, that’s as many iPhone 5s [sic] [recte iPhone 5 units] as were sold during that device’s launch weekend last year. At the high end, it’s a million more.”
Paczkowski reports, “Over at BTIG Research, Walter Piecyk says he expects Apple to sell at least six million iPhones. Citi analyst Glen Yeung… [is] expecting the iPhone 5s and 5c together to rack up first-weekend sales of around 7.75 million. He figures that the 5c will account for more than 4.5 million of those, with 5s sales totaling around 3.2 million.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
8,673,772… Duh!
Hardly so, because iPhone 5C are too pricey to sell very many units for what they worth, and iPhone 5S seems to be in very limited numbers. But lets see.
@ DeRs- step away from the left side of your brain a little…:)
The key question is, “How many iPhone 5c and 5s units did Apple’s suppliers produce and ship?” Apple will sell just about every unit that it can deliver to a retail outlet.
That’s right, crank up the sales numbers so high people can scream failure when those numbers aren’t met. Idiots.
Idiots are the flavor of the day, month and year, join them or use your brain to relate to facts…
iPhone – Ain’t nothing but the Real Thing…
I was just going to post something along those lines. I’d love a huge internet blackout for all the analyst’s websites and twitter accounts this weekend 😉
I think at the least these analysts will have to take their shoes and socks off to count them.
As long as I get my Gold(champagne) 5s on Friday I personal do not care how many Apple sells. I know it sounds selfish.
It doesn’t make sense for the 5c to have a lot of preorders: there’s no pent up demand because the nearly identical iPhone 5 has been readily available for a year now. I think it will start moving once it’s in stores where can appeal to impulse buyers.
Glen Young of Citi estimated 7.75M sales volume for 5C and 5S during this weekend. Isn’t this the guy who just downgraded Apple and cut PT to $425 last week because he believed Apple priced 5C way to high for China and other EM? How could he come back a few days later to propose such high estimated sales volume? Is he a stock analyst or a stock manipulator?
Is iSmile your avatar Glen?
This douche of whom you speak is Peter Misek of manipulating brokerage ‘Jefferies’, however, Glen Yeung is no less an historically stock-manipulating and analytically-challenged douche.
I hope they find Peter Misek and castrate him for spreading unnecessary FUD about iPhone 5c sales. There is absolutely no way an analyst can reliably forecast sales before even one unit is sold because there’s nothing to trend. He really helped to knock down Apple’s share price with his hasty downgrade. I can only hope Apple had been buying up shares when the price got to $450. These analyst crooks can get away with anything and act so smug after harming shareholders.
As many as Apple can build.
In an interesting note, all of those spam stock “hot tip” emails I get are now touting AAPL as their hot stock! I guess Wall Street has gotten in on this side of the manipulation game as well.
As many as they’ve built, same as every other time.
-jcr
Everybody knows that the answer is 42.
I’m sold on the 5c, but won’t be getting mine till the second half of October. It’s sometimes frustrating to be a responsible budgeter.