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iPhone 5 Sales in China top 2 Million in First Weekend

Watch out for the Apple Stock to pop today. Apple just announced that they sold 2 million iPhone 5 phones in China at launch.

Dec 17 2012, 2:08am CST | by

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iPhone 5 Sales in China top 2 Million in First Weekend
 
 

Apple today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone 5 in China, just three days after its launch on December 14. iPhone 5 will be available in more than 100 countries by the end of...

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Galaxy S4: 10M in 4 weeks. iPhone 5: 5M in 3 days.

Source: Fortune

By Philip Elmer-DeWitt May 17, 2013: 10:31 AM ET FORTUNE -- It's been years since Samsung reported any unit sales numbers at all for its mobile phones, so the tech press took notice Thursday when the South Korean manufacturing giant ...
Full article at: Fortune  More like this  1 day ago, 10:52am CDT

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"Going forward ... we still see significant opportunity in China. It's a great market. We have 11 stores there. We expect to double those in less than two years. We have added about 8,000 iPhone point-of-sales in the indirect channel to about 19,000 today, and we obviously have a plan to add more and further grow our distribution. This number is, obviously, too low currently."


Source: AppleInsider

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Apple Stock Gains in Pre-Market Trading

Now investors seem to have read the Apple China iPhone 5 announcement. Apple Stock gains modestly.

 
Dec 17 2012, 7:32am CST
Update: 2

AAPL Down in Pre-Market Trading

The stock market does not care about the China iPhone 5 sales record. The rather listen to analysts. Citigroup downgraded the Apple shares. I am not quite sure what the concerns are about Apple these days. All indicators point to a record holiday sales season. Maybe its the fact that nobody knows how 2013 will be like. We only know that their will be new versions of existing products, but is that enough? Some say Apple needs to release a major software overhaul. Maybe that is coming in 2013. And than there is the Apple Television, but I do not see that yet as a game changer.

 
Dec 17 2012, 6:51am CST
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iPhone 5 Sales in China top 2 Million in First Weekend

Apple today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone 5 in China, just three days after its launch on December 14. iPhone 5 will be available in more than 100 countries by the end of December, making it the fastest iPhone rollout ever.

“Customer response to iPhone 5 in China has been incredible, setting a new record with the best first weekend sales ever in China,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “China is a very important market for us and customers there cannot wait to get their hands on Apple products.”

The Apple stock took a beating over the last days. It closed on Friday at $509.79. I am pretty sure that based on these record sales of the iPhone 5 in China that the Apple stock will jump today.

Disclaimer: I own Apple stock.

 

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<a href="/latest_stories/all/all/2" rel="author">Luigi Lugmayr</a>
Luigi Lugmayr (Google) is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into vibrant technology magazine.
Luigi can be contacted directly at ml@i4u.com.

 

 

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