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Will Q4 iPhone Sales Surpass Expectations?

Bernhard Kappe, Monday, October 20, 2008 @ 6:25 pm

I went to the AT&T store on Friday to buy another testing phone for our developers, who are busily churning out more iPhone applications, and to switch one of my cell lines over from T-Mobile to my iPhone.  It was an interesting experience, with T-Mobile's very friendly and courteous customer service reps pitching me strongly on the G phone, and my service getting switched over in the middle of a business call.  I asked the AT&T store manager what percentage of their sales were iPhones, and after a bit of thought, he said about 65%.

Granted, that's only one location, but based on all of the annecdotal evidence I have, as well as how well the T-Mobile folks were trained to deal with the iPhone switch (not only on my request, but on my wife's similar call last week) I am expecting some pretty strong numbers form Apple tomorrow.

I'm also expecting decent G phone numbers for Q4, but I'm not sure how well they'll hold up later.

Update: It looks like Apple's Q4 iPhone sales topped 6.9 million, about 800,000 units more than RIM's 6.1 million in the equivalent period, beating most analyst expectations by a mile.

Interesting discussion on this over at Daring Fireball (of course) as well as a piece on Fortune on traditional analysts versus bloggers on Apple sales and earnings.  The bloggers got the iPhone numbers better than the analysts, but everyone missed on mac sales.

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