Apple is likely to see a decrease in sales, as compared to the previous quarter's sales. All hopes are now on the iPad 3. Can it balance out the figures?
According to a report in Fortune, Apple has been able to sell around 26-44 million iPhones in the last quarter, which ended 2 weeks ago.
Analysts suggest a middle ground value of 35.1 million; this clearly shows a decline in iPhone's sale from the previous quarter. Fortune is expected to release more information on the 24th April, which will expose the situation more clearly.
Apple had sold around 37 million iPhones in Q1 2012, a sudden jump, which marked an 85 percent increase year-over-year for Apple, after the release of the iPhone 4s. The figures jumped nearly double from 17.04 million in Q4 2011 to 37 million. Although the figures in 2011 seemed quite stagnant and grew slightly, with the surge of Android phones into the market, but with iPhone 4s' release they grew exponentially.
With the iPhone 4s doing so well in the last quarter and with the introduction of iPad 3 , the expected drop is quite explainable, we could see a crucial drop in the iPhone revenue. iPhone generates almost half of Apple's revenue, with the drop of its sales, all hopes are now on the iPad 3′s figures in this quarter, which is expected to pick up the numbers of the declining iPhone's revenue.
Apple has sold more iOS devices in 2011 than it has sold mac in the past three decades, so iOS-ification of the mac is quite logical, with the new iOS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" becoming a counterpart of iPhone and iPad in its functionality and features.
iPad 3′s figures are crucial for Apple in the 24th April's report as unlike iPhone, which people prefer to buy a 16 gb for $199 on contracts than to buy an unlocked device for a much higher cost of $649, iPad could generate much more revenue with its entry level device with a price tag of $499. But the iPhone still has much more to offer, with the predecessor iPhone 4 and the waning iPhone 3GS.
It is expected that iPhone's sale will see no drastic increase, like it has seen earlier but could see a decline, or the figures could stay the same, with the iPad 3 release. It is about time that Apple should shift its focus from iPhone and claim that iOS is what keeps the company in business.
Beth is a writer and technology blogger. She enjoys writing about mobile spy and cell phone tracker technology. She's from a rare breed of writers that pick up on technology before it becomes popular.
