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Posted on 09/10/2007 5:57:22 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone yesterday, just 74 days after its introduction on June 29. iPhone combines three devices into one-a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and the best mobile Internet device ever-all based on Apple's revolutionary multi-touch interface and pioneering software that allows users to control iPhone with just a tap, flick or pinch of their fingers.
"One million iPhones in 74 days-it took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, in the press release. "We can't wait to get this revolutionary product into the hands of even more customers this holiday season."
MacDailyNews Take: Apple has hit the first of their two publicly-stated goals: 1 million iPhones sold by the end of September 2007 (21 days early). Apple also has a goal (however laughably conservative it may be) of selling 10 million iPhones in calendar 2008.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in his Macworld Expo 2007 keynote address that Apple would set the goal of selling 10 million iPhone units in 2008, the first full year on the market. (Macworld Expo 2007 iPhone Introduction: Jobs' remarks on iPhone goals begin at 1:15:52 into the QuickTime video). On July 25, 2007, during Apple’s conference call discussing Q3 - 2007 financial results, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer reiterated Apple's goal of selling 10 million iPhone units in "calendar 2008." (Apple's Q3 07 Apple Quarterly Results Call: Oppenheimer's remarks on iPhone goals begin at 6:05 into the QuickTime audio stream).
Going forward, Apple's iPhone price reductions and launches outside the U.S. will change much about these figures, but here's what we know today about Apple's position in the market:
• Apple sold an average of 13,514 iPhone units per day in each of the first 74 days (mostly at launch prices)
• Without taking the price cuts into account, Apple will sell 1.233 million iPhones in the first quarter.
• Using the latest numbers Canalys has available on their website (Q4 2006 - Holiday Quarter):
- Apple (with summer U.S. sales only) outsold Sony Ericsson's worldwide holiday smartphone unit sales (1.137 million units, 5.1% market share)
- Apple (with summer U.S. sales only) outsold Palm's worldwide holiday smartphone unit sales (1.211 million units, 5.5% market share)
- Apple (with summer U.S. sales only) places just behind Motorola's worldwide holiday smartphone unit sales (1.463 million units, 6.6% market share) - According to Canalys, Nokia led with 11.114 million "smart mobile device" shipments in Q4 2006 (50.2% share); RIM was second with 1.829 million (8.3% share).
(Note that we are comparing projected Apple iPhone sales in Q3 2007 (summer) to Q4 2006 (holiday) figures for others because they are the best numbers we have available to us at this time. We conduct this exercise in order to give some sense of where Apple stands in the market.)
With the iPhone's stunning price cut, the ramp up around the world soon to begin, and the holiday season approaching, you can see just how quickly, viciously, and gluttonously Apple has moved into the world of smart mobile devices.
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, April 30, 2007
[UPDATE: 1:40pm EDT: Corrected Nokia Q4 06 unit sales as per Canalys.]
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Palm and Blackberry producers have to be worried. Once these are sold unlocked, many more will be buying them.
It wasn’t the sale of I-Phones that were slow but the AT&T activations that have lagged dramatically.
Evidently, a lot of people bought the phone not for the phone but the other features....
Perhaps they are waiting for it to be unlocked to use other carriers....
Later in September, Apple releases iPod Touch which is the iPhone without the phone part. I think this is what you were mentioing.
iTunes will also be huge, selling 300-500 MILLION songs a year. But that won't be the half of it. iTunes is poised to become the primary place where people get their media. TV shows, movies, documentaries, audiobooks, music videos, etc., etc. And much of this content will be "for rent" as well as to purchase.
For those holding onto Apple stock, you will be rewarded. Apple will be posting $20 billion a quarter in revenue in a few years time, twice as big as Microsoft is now.
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, April 30, 2007"Now that the Zune is out, the iPod will be going the way of the dinos- what's that? You want us to what? Pull the plug on the Zune?!?" -- Steve Ballmer, earlier that day
The ones we’re getting for our office aren’t going to be “new account activations”. We’re going to be transferring our SIM cards over and our rate plans will change.
The funny thing about unlocking the iPhone is that you can physically only use the iPhone on AT&T or T-mobile in the US. They’re the only people with compatible network freqencies - and T-mobile sucks worse than AT&T does.
So maybe AAPL takes over T and fixes it?
http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/ads/
Definitely cute and catchy. That ad is just bound to move some product, IMHO.
LOL how long did it take the Zune to sell one million units like 330% longer!
Not likely. T-mobile is partially owned by the German government. And they haven’t invested much into their infrastructure here.
Glad to have done my part. Seriously, the Iphone is hands down the best phone I’ve owned and I’ve had many. It’s so much better than the Treo 700w it replaced that the two hardly bear comparison. I look forward to applying my $100 credit toward the purchase of a new 17” Macbook Pro as soon as the line is refreshed.
No kidding. The song is "1234" by Feist. There is a little button on the ad to buy the song on iTune. One listen and I bought it and the music video.
Me too. Any idea when that is going to be? I HOPE October when Leopard comes out.
Wow, that's pretty heady stuff. Especially for a long-time Mac person who used to send nasty letters to WSJ's Mossberg who used to ignore the brand.
No question that you are right about where Apple is headed. I just hope it can survive and thrive with Job's extraordinary vision.
I'm thinking probably October too. But no one but Uncle Steve knows for sure and he ain't telling.
Has the Social reached 1,000,000 members yet?
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