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The 4S sold 4mil the first four days. The iPhone 5 sold 5 mil first three days. The 5S sold 9mil first three days. Based in these numbers I can understand how Apple underestimated the demand for the 5S. The sales for the 5 to 5s almost doubled on opening weekends. Who can really forecast that.
Faster chip, updated camera, Touch ID, new colors. Apple May have thought these improvement would not create a demand to justify triple or quadruple initial production over the weekend sales of the iPhone 5. We can discuss business models and economics but it could be just as simple as who knew?
I don't believe there is a inability to meet demand Apple did what most companies would do based on their last year opening sales of 5 mil. Lets tack on another 4 plus mil for the 5S. If we sell 6 mil opening weekend we'll have another 3 mil to sell while we are producing more.
Seems like a lot of people switched from Android and then there are those who upgraded early after getting the 5 last year. Then there are people who were eligible for a upgrade. Then people like myself who had the 4S weren't eligible for a upgrade but wanted the 5s anyway.
Throw all these factors together along with some other factors and we have unusual demand like the Perfect Storm scenario.
Faster chip, updated camera, Touch ID, new colors. Apple May have thought these improvement would not create a demand to justify triple or quadruple initial production over the weekend sales of the iPhone 5. We can discuss business models and economics but it could be just as simple as who knew?
I don't believe there is a inability to meet demand Apple did what most companies would do based on their last year opening sales of 5 mil. Lets tack on another 4 plus mil for the 5S. If we sell 6 mil opening weekend we'll have another 3 mil to sell while we are producing more.
Seems like a lot of people switched from Android and then there are those who upgraded early after getting the 5 last year. Then there are people who were eligible for a upgrade. Then people like myself who had the 4S weren't eligible for a upgrade but wanted the 5s anyway.
Throw all these factors together along with some other factors and we have unusual demand like the Perfect Storm scenario.