Link: 7 Real Reasons Why iPhone is a Smash Hit - GigaOM.
- Since its launch on July 11, Apple sold 6.892 million 3G iPhones in the quarter, bringing the total number of iPhones sold so far to 12.992 million. Many of the new phones were sold to first time buyers.
- Apple recognized $806 million in iPhone related revenues for the quarter.
- If Apple didn’t defer the iPhone revenue, the iPhone sales would
have accounted for about 39% of the adjusted total quarterly revenues.
Jobs put the number at $4.6 billion. - The iPhone will be sold in 70 countries by end of this year. It is currently sold in 51 countries.
- By revenues, Apple is now the 3rd largest mobile phone maker behind
Nokia and Samsung, ahead of Sony & LG Electronics. Samsung had
revenues of $5.9 billion and it seems beatable. - iPhone is outselling RIM. Jobs kept hammering that that point during the conference calls.
- Apple says that in 102 days since the iPhone Apps store opened,
nearly 200 million iPhone apps have been downloaded. There are about
5500 apps available on the iPhone Apps store.
E' indubbio che e' un grande successo, ma non capisco bene cosa significa che Apple ha registrato vendite per 806MUS$ mentre se non avesse differito i ricavi sarebbe arrivata a 4,6miliardi US$.
Forse che 4,6Bn sono il sell-in (vendite di Apple ai distributori) e 806M sono il sell-out (vendite al pubblico) ?
Non ho il tempo per studiarmi le comunicazioni ufficiali; chi mi puo' spiegare ? se e' cosi', sarebbe interessante capire anche se il rapporto sell-in/sell-out e' quello anche per RIM (Blackberry) e se, per le persone, l'iPhone e' un telefono aggiuntivo o sostitutivo.
Io avevo pensato di prendere un iphone, poi ho preso un ipod touch e affiancarlo all'inossidabile Treo..
