Re:First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record
by giarc on Monday September 23, 2013 @11:41AM
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I would say that there is too much speculation in your comment . You go from 4.5 million devices all the way to 2.25 just because you think 5C's are selling better?
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Re:First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record
by mladenkovacevic on Monday September 23, 2013 @11:59AM
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Well yes speculating is for humans too. I wasn't entirely speculating though. I had read a headline saying that 5c is 3 times as popular as 5s. So trying to be as just in my speculating as I could, I went for a best-case worst-case range.
But in this instance it reminds me that to err is human as well. Because while trying to find the headline I was thinking of, I realized I'd mixed up my C's and my S's. It's the iPhone 5s that could be 3 times as popular as the 5c (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57604127-37/iphone-5s-acti...).
So here is my new speculation! iPhone 5c sells 2.25 million while iPhone 5s sells 6.75 million units. Indeed that's a little better than last year's 5 million, but my speculative gut is still telling me the 5c to 5s ratio is not quite that high.