Piper: Apple sold 5 million iPhone 3Gs in quarter
Piper Jaffray is estimating that Apple will have sold 5 million iPhone 3Gs during the current quarter.
(Credit: Apple)One Apple follower is putting a guess on the number of iPhone 3Gs Apple will have sold during the current quarter: 5 million.
We already know that Apple sold 1 million iPhone 3Gs in the first weekend it went on sale around the world, and Piper Jaffray believes the company has added another 4 million units to that total since then, according to a research note released Monday. Apple will reveal the formal totals in about a month when it reports earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter.
Despite several launch day glitches and widespread bugs in the iPhone's 2.0 software, enthusiasm for the phone seems high. The other big factor this time around, as compared to the iPhone's early days, is the huge increase in the number of countries that are now officially selling the iPhone.
The main number to watch is 10 million: that's the number of iPhones Apple has consistently said is its target for 2008. That number appears easily within reach if the 5 million estimate is accurate: Apple sold around 2.5 million iPhones during the first six months of 2008 as it ran out of the original model.
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Interesting.
I sincerely doubt that, as you've trolled every iPod story during the past three months, but whatever.
Yes, yes, we're all aware of the "perpetually disappointed" syndrome. Quite a nasty mental illness to be always complaining about everything. Kinda screws up your life. Very sad.
The best thing that the iPhone and new IPod can achieve is to convince PC enthusiasts of the superiority of Mac designs. Anyone who tries the operating system on an Apple computer will never want to retreat back to Windows. I expect Mac to bring down the price of its laptop computers next month to make them more attractive to potential buyers.
"by eltoro2827 September 22, 2008 4:06 PM PDT
Actually 4,999,999, I returned my last week because of no hotmail email support, crappy touch screnn keyboard, battery life is half assed, slow 3g speeds...etc...."
As many as there are whining Americans hungry for their half second of class action fame while having a tantrum over their nations inferior mobile network and angrily comparing the battery life of their old CDMA phone with a one inch 64 colour screen to that of their first 3G handset.
Naturally the solution was to blame Apple who personally invented 3G and made headlines rolling it out to the world (ie: the USA) ... NOT! And for making the criminally culpable claim it was 2x faster on the Internet than EDGE, LOL, imagine if they had told the truth, that it was 10x faster, if you had a decent network (basically lived in any nation but the USA (not quite true, but fun to say)). ROTFLMAO
Oh I forgot to include the frightened, impatient and change resistant mob who freak out when it takes more than 5 seconds to get good on a keyboard, while having no memory of the fact it a) took them years to get up to their legendary 20wpm that they are comparing against and b) that every darn keyboard, physical or otherwise has slightly different key spacing and sizing which catches you out when you move between computers any how.
The other people, who for example wanted
- MS compatibility
- A Blackberry
- A cheap phone
- A video phone (to experience the joy of the 5fps 172x120 noise that 3G offers)
- A phone with buttons (to get jammed with dirt and rub off within a few months)
- A phone with direct access to its file system (pitch for PhoneView on Mac, which for $20 lets you do it (I am a customer))
- A phone with a battery cover (to let in all sorts of bad news that kills phones)
- Or anything else the iPhone never claimed to offer anyway such as access to the 2 legged dog that is Hotmail (poor thing, i remember the good old days).
( @ ElToro BTW if you pay MS to let you access Hotmail via POP, you could have used your iPhone)
Well those people, they never, well at least the ones who research something they might buy, they never bought an iPhone to take back.
Errr, well maybe as lKrupp pointed out, they might have, because they suffered from the illness that makes a person need to be always outraged at something.
Nah, not being a troll, just stating the obvious, in a cheeky way.
;-)
I'm just someone that would love to have a Iphone but is with the wrong carrier...
And that's the way all businesses work.
For example, 5 mil sold, 20K returned would suggest that it is has a very high customer satisfaction rating.
- by myles taylor September 27, 2008 10:19 AM PDT
- If there were enough being returned to make a dent in the number, it would have made headlines and seriously hurt the bottom line. I'd say that hardly enough are returned in a month to cover one day of sales.
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