Filed under: Apple Financial, iPhone
iPhone was the best selling smartphone in July
Numbers released by iSuppli show that the iPhone outsold all smartphones in the month of July. Further, it outsold all "feature phones" with the exception of the LG Chocolate (which it tied). All told the iPhone represented 1.8% of handsets sold in the US in July. The numbers breakdown also show that 25% of iPhone buyers switched to AT&T. Based on these numbers iSuppli estimated that Apple will move 4.5m this year and (somehow) estimates worldwide shipments of 30m by 2011. In any case, it's abundantly clear that the iPhone is well on it's way to being a major success in the most profitable part of the market. Of course, it's hard to know how well the sales numbers will hold up once the initial rush has passed, but if Apple continues its iPod trend of improving features and lowering prices I suspect we'll be talking about amazing iPhone numbers for quite some time to come.[via electronista]
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marc cardwell said 3:20PM on 9-04-2007
and still, npr said ipod sales are "disappointing." sheesh.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14136189
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Billy K said 4:11PM on 9-04-2007
"PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in."
-Palm CEO Ed Colligan
Guess what...
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Billy K said 4:12PM on 9-04-2007
"...the two models of the iPhone now on the market outsold ... the entire Palm portfolio..."
(I couldn't resist)
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Robert said 4:26PM on 9-04-2007
So how many total mobile phones were sold in July?
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Mattazuma said 6:05PM on 9-04-2007
There was a bunch of pent up demand for the iPhone since it had been hyped for the previous 6 months, so of course it was going to sell well the first month out. The interesting month will be August to see how well it sold after the initial surge was over.
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Matthew E said 8:43PM on 9-04-2007
The most interesting thing in there to me is that only 25% of people buying iPhones switched to AT&T. I personally don't care that much how great the iPhone is or isn't; it's far outweighed by the fact that I won't ever switch to AT&T. Reading this makes me think maybe there are many others who feel the same way.
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