Apple Predicted to Sell Nearly 200 Million iPhones Next Year
- iPhones are selling surprisingly briskly. Based on the survey and last week's comments from AT&T (T), Huberty estimates that Apple (AAPL) could ship anywhere from 31 to 36 million iPhones this quarter -- as much as 20% higher than the 30 million she's modeling and nearly 30% higher than the 28 million Wall Street is expecting.
- iPhone demand is accelerating. "Surprisingly," she writes, "US consumers expect to buy more iPhones in C1Q12 than C4Q11" (emphasis hers). Even discounting the survey results 10%, that suggests Apple could sell 13 million iPhones in the U.S. and 41 million worldwide next quarter. Morgan Stanley's model has Apple selling 30 million iPhones in calendar Q1 2012.
On the tablet side, the survey data points to a similar story, with Huberty's survey data indicating that Apple could see sales of over 80 million iPads next year, well above her firm's estimate of 52 million units. Apple has sold 25 million iPads so far this year, with analysts estimating that Apple may add 13-14 million units to that total in the holiday quarter.
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2008: 13.6 million
2009: 25.2 million
2010: 47.4 million
2011: 86-91 million (estimated)
iPhone sales have been nearly doubling for the past 4 years. 200 million may be a little high but not that crazy. Hey guys look, I'm an analyst!
just bought a windows phone ... sorry apple.
HTC Titan.
Thing is the biz
Ridiculous screen size (4.7)
Bluetooth 2.1 (two generations old)
720p video recording
Single Core Processor.
Minuscule software market
I think Apple is probably more sorry for you
Analyst - so the prediction probably way off!
I want voice-only FaceTime so that we can finally drop the wireless carriers.
iMessage already save my SMS money. FaceTime (or may be TalkTime :) without video will be also a great feature.
Only if apple fixes the batteries on these iPhones! I have two coworkers that are apple fanatics that jumped ship to go to androids! I am on my 3rd iPhone 4s. So far so good, but last two were good for a few weeks too.
That's like jumping out the frying pan into the fire. Androids aren't known for battery life so leaving the iPhone for this would be silly.
No Apple fanatic buys an Android phone unless they have to for some reason.
Be interested in other things you don't like. I honestly like my phone better in almost every other category than my wife's outside of battery life. Maybe it's because I customized mine to the point that things are much easier and faster for me. But, if someone else picked it up they'd likely have no clue how to open anything.
Here are a few just off the top of my head....
- Laggy as all get out
- Bluetooth randomly drops
- email sucks (compared to Blackberry)
- if I want to flash a ROM, need to set up all screens again
- gps is slow, slow, slow
I'm running 2.2 (Bionix rom by Team Whiskey) on a Samsung Vibrant. Can't expect Samsung / T-Mobile to ever release a firmware update. This phone is my last Samsung, and I'm not too enamored with Android, although I do like my Kindle Fire.
I'm moving to an iPhone as soon as my contract is over. The crap email and Google sync is not something I want to deal with any longer. Much less always being hooked to a charger.
I wonder when every human on earth will have one? Then the sales will begin to drop. So much for being unique.
That's like saying once every one has a TV, no one will want to buy a new one.
Gee, everyone has a car, I'd better dump my auto stock...
Some people's logic defies logic...
That's like jumping out the frying pan into the fire. Androids aren't known for battery life so leaving the iPhone for this would be silly.
No Apple fanatic buys an Android phone unless they have to for some reason.
Like if they have TMO like me. No Andriod yet, but getting close.
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