“In an investors note released Friday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster pegged iPhone sales for January through March — Apple’s second fiscal quarter — at 57 million units,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET. “If his prediction pans out, that would mean significant growth over the 43.7 million iPhones sold in the same period last year.”
“During the October-through-December quarter, Apple broke its own record by selling 74.5 million iPhones,” Whitney reports. “Most product sales naturally slow down following the holiday-shopping season.”
Whitney reports, “Apple is due to report its latest quarterly earnings on April 27.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We’d consider 13.3 million more units sold YOY in any quarter, much less the first quarter, to be a rousing success.
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At first I thought that head line was going to say 57 million watches. My jaw is locked open.
Same guy who said that 300,000 Apple Watches would be ordered first day.
Yeah, Gene’s prognostications lately are down there with Punxsutawney Phil’s. Actually, Phil has probably done better 😎
I’ll take Gene Munster’s iPhone projections over his projected sales of an Apple Television any day.
Whenever someone starts quoting numbers, consider the source. 🖖😀⌚️
The Apple Watch will certainly up the iPhone sales for Apple’s 3Q as well.
This is surely going to upset that “analyst” at T-GAAP who doesn’t know they cancelled March Christmas this year.
While Christmas happened in the last quarter, the Chinese New Year happened in this quarter. It didn’t used to have any impact on Apple’s sales, but the Chinese market has suddenly become very significant for Apple, Few analysts seem to be mentioning it, but from now on, Apple may be benefiting from two holiday sales periods in successive quarters.
I reckon that the forthcoming financial results will reveal some extraordinary iPhone sales numbers, especially from China.
There was significant unfulfilled demand for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus from the record-breaking December quarter. So it will be higher (more than 60 million) for the March quarter.
Munster is light ….. Look over 61 million range ….
Hoping for 64.?
Aside from the previous quarter, YOY numbers follow a certain pattern. 55-60 is the most likely, with 62 topping a fairly. Surprises occur, but when is the surprise.