“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.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]