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This is really stupid. Gartner has always had suspiciously low figures where Apple was concerned, but this is the FIRST time they've published their guesstimates AFTER Apple has published their accurate sales figures for the previous quarter.

This time Apple reported their ACTUAL iPhone sales figures for the 1st quarter of 2015 as 74.77 million units. That quarterly report ended five days short of the end of the Calendar quarter on December 26, 2015.

s. Yet, here we have Gartner, publishing its GUESSTIMATEs on how many iPhones Apple sold in the last quarter of 2015, which Gartner guesses was only 71.526 million units! How STUPID do they think people are to believe their GUESS over the accurate figures provided in Apple's AUDITED Financial 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission?

Gartner wants us to believe that Apple sold 3.25 MILLION FEWER iPhones than they said they did in an audited report?!?!? Who do then think they are going to fool with this ridiculously low guesstimate, when it is easy to see the accurate numbers???

Gartner's chief Statistician Gupta has really jumped the shark, releasing his 4th quarter 2015 guesstimates on mobile phone shipments three weeks AFTER Apple reported its actual quarterly sales and reports Gartner's guess that Apple only sold ~71.5 million iPhones, and stating that Apple suffered a downturn in iPhone sales year over year. But Apple had just reported selling 74.77 million iPhones and a slight year over year INCREASE! How wrong can you be, missing the iPhone count by 3.25 million too low, and STILL publishing their figures as if they mean something? SHEESH! -- PING!

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All phones that cost a lotvarebgoing to see their sales crash because the mobile phone companies stopped subsidizing phones.

My whole cost for a 64 gigabite Iphone 6 was $300’ no additional payments. Next time the cost goes up to $950.
I and others will think long and hard and wait much longer before dropping a grand for a phone.

Instead of every other year I might wait 4 years for the next phone and I will likely drop my IPhone for a mid level Android.
I only went IPhone for face time, but I can do similar things if the family all get androidsbwith face time types of apps free from Google play.