MaulerX said:
Cub said:
MaulerX said:
ethomaz said:
MaulerX said:
The iPhone 4S sold 4 million by it's first weekend. The iPhone 5 sold 5 million. However...
The iPhone 5 launched in more countries. And the iPhone 4S did not launch on carriers like Verizon or Sprint.
While theoretically speaking the iPhone 5 appears to be "selling better", given these facts the argument can be made that technically, the iPhone 5 is not selling better at all. More like equal or slightly under.
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What part about "supply constraints" you didn't understand.
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You do understand that Apple is counting all unfulfilled pre-orders as part of the 5 million. So if there would have been 10 million pre-orders and only 3 million devices available, they would have still said they sold 10 million.
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I am not sure about that, I just read that they don't.
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Well then I think there is something funny going on. Apple boasted that they broke pre-order records with 2 million. And yet, most of those people got notices that they will not get their device until after October. I have 3 friends who got said pre-order notices. So all of a sudden they sold 5 million to consumers and those people that pre-ordered are still waiting for there phone? I'll be honest, I'm just as confused as anybody else by the way they are crunching their numbers.
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You are probably right though, I mean when you pre-order you are being charged regardless of the delivery date, am I right?
Edit:
Marshall notes that many of those first-day pre-orders, as well as ones made after that date, have yet to be delivered, and thus Apple can not yet count them as sold.
Are we gonna get more numbers next week or not? :]
Edit 2:
Hi. I'm an analyst. My initial figures were completely wrong, and as such, I am now correcting my initial prediction with a prediction. (lol)
