Here's a little prelude to earnings:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/iphone-sales-at-verizon-top-6-2m-or-63-of-all-smartphones-sold-in-q4-half-of-which-were-iphone-5/
63% of Verizon's smartphone sales in Q4 were iPhone, up from 55% a year ago. Absolute iPhone units increased from 4.3 million to 6.2 million YoY.
Perhaps the most interesting part is that only half of those phones were the iPhone 5. In the past, the latest iPhone model has dominated launch quarter purchases by as high as 90%. We'll see if this shift to older, cheaper iPhones shows up in ASP and margins, or if the difference is being made up in the sales of 32GB and 64GB models.
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