Despite all its problems and issues, the Apple iPhone has constantly been breaking its own sales records with each quarter. All the criticism in the world, whether it’s the faulty antenna or the alleged susceptibility of its glass construction, doesn’t seem to make a dent in sales. Apple is set to announce its earnings on October 18, and it looks like the company might be ready to disclose yet another record in iPhones sold.
According to MacRumors:
Apple’s highest quarterly iPhone sales to-date came in the quarter ending in March of this year, with 8.8 million iPhones sold. The company’s iPhone sales dipped slightly to 8.4 million in the June quarter as a successful iPhone 4 launch in the waning days of the quarter wasn’t quite able to offset lagging sales over the majority of the quarter as customers held back in anticipation of the new version.
The dip in sales is apparently due to everyone’s anticipation of a new iPhone coming. Why buy an iPhone when a new one is coming in a few weeks? Especially if you liked what you saw in those leaked images.
Now that the iPhone 4 has had a chance to marinate in the market for a while, some analysts are predicting that sales records will totally demolish previous ones. As a matter of fact, Wall Street analysts predict that Apple has sold 10 million iPhones this quarter on the low-end, and as high as 13 million for the optimistic.
The average works out to be 11.8 million iPhones sold – a 60% increase from last year this time.
So whether you think Apple doesn’t stand a chance against Google’s Android in terms of market share, or that Steve Jobs & Co. are still well behind the global rankings, just remember that even in relatively smaller numbers the iPhone has swallowed up the value share in the smartphone market.
[Via: MacRumors]