Thread: Apple rumor: we'll sell 21 million iPhones in first quarter of 2011

Just landed on this article from Ars Technica. 21 million.. that's a lot of iPhones in 3 months...

Apple rumor: we'll sell 21 million iPhones in first quarter of 2011

Apple expects to move as many as 21 million iPhones in the first quarter of 2011, up from initial estimates of 19 million. Sources inside Taiwanese component suppliers told DigiTimes that the total included as many as 6 million CDMA-compatible iPhone models expected to launch in both North America and Asia early next year.

In its first two years, iPhone sales peaked in the fourth quarter, and slowly decreased in expectation of the release of a new version each June or July. However, sales of the iPhone 3GS continued to increase in the first quarter of 2010, dropping more sharply before the release of the iPhone 4—perhaps due to a widely-reported leak about the new device's design.

Apple sold a record 14.1 million iPhones last quarter, and fourth quarter sales are estimated at 15.5 million. According to DigiTimes sources, Apple is expecting to sell between 14 and 15 million GSM/UMTS iPhones for the first quarter in 2011.

In addition, these same sources say Apple is looking to ship 5 to 6 million CDMA iPhones during the first quarter, widely expected to launch on Verizon next month. Analyst Gene Munster has suggested, based on limited market research, that being limited to a single carrier has been the biggest hinderance to increasing iPhone sales in the US. Furthermore, analysts have previously noted several Asian carriers may also be interested in a CDMA-compatible iPhone, including China Mobile and SK Telecom.

Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg tried to quell rumors of the iPhone launching on the Verizon network in September, but information about field tests of a new iPhone device have jibed with information Ars has received that suggested Apple and Verizon have been testing new models in the Boston area for several months.

DigiTimes sources believe Apple has sold as many as 47 million iPhones so far this year. We'll know if those figures are accurate in just a few weeks; Apple said on Monday that it will announce its fiscal first quarter 2011 results (which runs from October through December 2010) on January 18.

Source : Apple rumor: we'll sell 21 million iPhones in first quarter of 2011

I don't think so! In my opinion, Android will slow down some apple sales in the upcoming years.

Originally Posted by edw

I don't think so! In my opinion, Android will slow down some apple sales in the upcoming years.

I hope so too. I don't think the Iphone is all that great but Apple is really good at marketing. There are far better alternatives out there but people think because it has an Apple logo it is somewhere just above God.

@zeidle : do u actually own an iphone?
i used both system and i pick ios because of the support and the jailbreaking communities out there.
I think they will get more sales once they switched over to Verizon.

no i do not own an iphone. However, half my friends have one and half my family have one. I've used theirs and it is nothing great in my eyes

android devices suffer the same consequences PC's suffer. The thing apple does correctly is they are as much a hardware company as they are a software company. And they make hardware specifically tuned for their software. What this means is even if they have worse hardware the software works better because it was specifically tuned for that specific model which is unlike a PC. The PC has literally hundreds of hardware vendors.

TLDR; The android OS falls into slow downs on most phones because the software is not optimized for the android platform while the iphone (especially the newest one) will not run into those slowdowns.

Originally Posted by ethicks

android devices suffer the same consequences PC's suffer. The thing apple does correctly is they are as much a hardware company as they are a software company. And they make hardware specifically tuned for their software. What this means is even if they have worse hardware the software works better because it was specifically tuned for that specific model which is unlike a PC. The PC has literally hundreds of hardware vendors.

TLDR; The android OS falls into slow downs on most phones because the software is not optimized for the android platform while the iphone (especially the newest one) will not run into those slowdowns.

Mac user? ^^

This is exactly why I love my iPhone and hate Android devices. Every time I had the chance to try one, it always had a lag/slow down, which I've never experienced with the iPhone 4.

Apple is really good at marketing. It's funny because everyone building a better product doesn't boost sales, slick ads do, but still everyone assumes apple is better.

I think they say that because of the Verizon iPhone