Apple shipped 1,119,000 iPhones in Q4 2007
By Paul Miller 
posted Oct 22nd 2007 4:49PM
posted Oct 22nd 2007 4:49PM
Sure, Apple's profitability and viability is based on any number of factors, but there's one figure that analysts have been training their calculators on for months that has finally seen the light of day: Apple sold 1,119,000 iPhones in Q4 2007, which ended on September 29th, bringing the grand total to 1,389,000 since launch. That might meet or miss your expectations, but other sales bringing a smile to Jobs' face and a cha-ching to his wallet include a 34% growth in Mac sales year to year and a 17% growth in iPods year to year -- with 10.2 million iPods sold last quarter. The earnings call hasn't started just yet, so hopefully we'll get a few more juicy details on how much AT&T is chipping in to the bottom line these days.
Man, Apple is just an unstoppable beast. That's insane. Love them or hate them, they run an insanely profitable company.
1,119,000? That's amazing, such an even number. You would have thought it would be 1,119,008.
YEAH SHIPPING!
Sales =...600,000?
Incorrect, these are reported sale numbers.
If you really wanted to try to bash Apple, this is a stretch, wait for AT&T to release number of activations and that would show you sales v. activation. Though really, I highly doubt it will be much of a difference between the two.
Matt, this has to do with Apples profits, not whether or not ATT activated the iphone. ITs never about anyone else except apple - yeah, you knoew that punk - well, didnt ya?
The Apple bashing tards right on queue. Do you guys sit by your computers waiting for these articles?? Is there some kind of Apple Bashing Rewards Program (TM) out there that I am not aware of.
actually a fiscal year can be different for each and every company - I could say that my companies fiscal year starts July 17 2007 and that I am currently in FY08 and there is 14 periods rather that 12 months - its all up to the company as to how they want to set up their fiscal calendar.
"Is there some kind of Apple Bashing Rewards Program (TM) out there that I am not aware of."
I think the Winbots get Zune Points from Redmond per ounce of anti-Apple FUD posted publicly.
I think you guys mean Q3? it's Q4 right now.
Financial calendars do not run the same as the real one. Quarter 4 just ended, typically it's from July 1st to September 30th. I know, confusing.
No, they are correct with what they said. But it would have been useful if they said "Fiscal year" as Apples Fiscal year ends on Sept 30.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=Aapl
Yea... shouldn't that read Q4 FY07?
They were referring only to Q4 and not the entire fiscal year.
my mistake. I know a lot of the electronics industry refers to Q4 as the holiday season. just assumed apple would be the same.
A fiscal year is different in different countries... In some countries it runs from Jan to Jan. In commonwealth countries (UK, India, etc.) it runs April to April. In the US it runs from Oct to Oct.
From auto industry to USCIS, everyone uses a fiscal year. For EG: a car model released after Oct is known as the next year model. A civic launched in Oct 2007 will be called 2008 civic....
Same goes for visas and GCs issued by USCIS.
A fiscal year is different in different countries... In some countries it runs from Jan to Jan. In commonwealth countries (UK, India, etc.) it runs April to April. In the US it runs from Oct to Oct.
From auto industry to USCIS, everyone uses a fiscal year. For EG: a car model released after Oct is known as the next year model. A civic launched in Oct 2007 will be called 2008 civic....
Same goes for visas and GCs issued by USCIS.
I hate all of these different calendars. At my work we finished Q2 Sept 30. At least it means we get our "first half" bonus in october. Just in time for x-mas gadget shopping!
Do they work with Vista 64Bit yet?
Who uses that?
Probably not but they do have government spying software in them for all of the sheeple that flock to them http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/200707iphonesurveillance.htm
Whoops... was I not supposed to install that? :P
I'm not kidding. :( (about using it or my compatibility issues)
You don't mean does the iPhone work with Vista. You mean does Vista work with the iPhone. Microsoft is retracting Vista and adding another Service Pack for WinXP.
You iPhone haters keep saying that the iPhone is an overhyped piece of crap, so the United States is going to have a hell of a lot people walking around holding fertilizer in their hands.
Last time I checked, Apple was $187.35 after hours. Microsoft was $30.51 and Dell was $28.65.
Last time I checked, MS had a total world OS market share of around 92%
@TinyTeddies;
E-mail me in 10 years when that number is less then 60%
@Constable Odo
So Apple was worth $187.35. So will that stock split once Mr. Jobs gets his under the table back dated options. I kid.
@ TinyTeddies
Last time I checked, MS had a total world OS market share of around 92%
Check tomorrow and it will be around 91% and dropping fast. Thank Vista for that.
The stock is rocking in after-hours trading....
thats what usually happens when you blow out the numbers...
It's up $12, or about 7%. Wowzer!!!
It took them 3 months to get to 1.4 million. If they maintain those numbers through the end of 2008, they would be at 8.4 million - which is far less than the 10 million that Jobs had hoped for. Of course, theres a ton of other factors like momentum, hype, worldwide sales, and other/new models that affect the sales, so only time will tell.
Don't forget European sales which haven't begun yet.
There also is this little thing called the "holiday season" when Apple (and pretty much any other maker) will make, oh I dunno, like 200% more in sales of everything they sell.
Gotta love the Christmas season ;)
Just to put things in perspective here. Nokia sells ONE MILLION phones every single day.
Apple is doing great, but has a long way to go.
Agreed - but they don't get $400 for each one or a share of the contract
Nokia also sells worldwide. The iPhone is just now going global....Nice try though
Nokia also has about 20+ different lines of phones, that range from free to $500.
While that is great for Nokia, they have also been doing this for many, many years, and Apple just jumped into the river a bit ago and already able to keep up (a bit).
Matt, actually nokia handsets go up to $1000+
I just bought a iPod Touch 16gb (which I wouldn't have purchased, but jailbreak made it all worth it), and I'm loving it. But I'm also not going to rush out and purchase a Mac as a result of all this.
And I might add that I own a Zune 30gb which I still use, in addition to the iPod Touch. :)
not to be critical on either product, may I ask why you use and/or carry around 2 digital media players?
Zune holds a majority of my music and stays (for the most part) in my car.
iPod Touch was purchased mainly as a gadget because of Safari and the third pary applications. But I use it at the gym because it is smaller than the Zune, and I don't need all the music my Zune has on it.
After Hours: 184.30 +9.94 (5.70%) - Oct 22, 4:58PM ET. WOOT!!!!!
Wow. I really wish I had more than Marketocracy Money on AAPL.
After Hours: 185.73 +11.37 (6.52%) - Oct 22, 5:24PM ET. WOOT++
Now thats a big number...
analysts were expecting 983k
Nate, you'll find they made more than 983 thousand this quarter, I think you meant to say "983 Million", as in just shy of 1 Billion profit.
No analysts were expecting 983k iPhones sold is what I was saying.
as soon as people start to realise that most of these supose to be iPhone killers are just lame regular touch screen phones and not multi touch, theres no stoping it
Nokia wishes it had Apples gross margins on those million phones it sales a day, you would see the first trillon dollar company.
Woot!
Lunch is on Steve!
eh, we all know google will hit the trillion dollar mark.
that i don't doubt.
So how many new AT&T registered Customers in the same time? ;)
so where's the conference call? is anyone getting a feed? it's 6 pm and i'm still getting nothing from Apple's own link. And i pulled off a highway and talked a hotel manager into letting me use her lobby wireless for the purpose. They're starting to look at me a little funny...
Man, Apple did what Google did last week. They didn't just beat Wall Street expectations, they blew the expectations out of the water. Love them or hate them, you have to admit that Apple is one of the best when it comes to selling a product to people. They either create what people want or they tell you what you want. It should come as no surprise that the Directors at Apple have years of experience selling everything from vacations to movies to jeans http://www.newsvisual.com/newsvisual/2007/10/could-apple-pul.html . This is partially what makes the company so good at sales.
Apple low balled their earnings potential. So when they finally announced today everybody rejoiced and brought more stock. Oh how I wished I brought stock back in 2005. They've been doing great business.
Impressive except for the iPhone. They hit 1 million just after the price cut so the extra is not much, great but still a slow down. I know I'm not the only iphone owner to have returned the phone and received a full refund. Are there any figures about returns? Are there any figures about iPhones needing repair and trashed? Still great numbers and great for me financially. As long as idiots keep buying App imacs that have screen problems, iphones that can't even take a call, I'll do well.
"Are there any figures about returns?"
I'm sure you're part of a microscopically tiny, whiny minority.
"iphones that can't even take a call"
Sounds like user error to me.
My iPhone is the best gadget I've ever owned. Maybe you couldn't figure out how to power yours on?
I think the most exciting part is those increased Mac sales... Thats the most important part to me. The iPhone/iPod stuff is nice, but apple has, and always will be, to me, a computer company.....
That being said, I am extremely happy about those numbers!
man, you guys are all apple slaves! I'm not saying that the iPhone isn't really cool, but they didn't exactly buy the best programs. They use google maps instead of google gps, and there is the problem with the bricking and having to sync each time you download something. The internet sucks when off wifi, at least compared to my dad's 2005 Treo 300 on Verizon. Personally, I don't like apple, mostly because they're not as innovative as they're making you believe. Take a look at the LG Prada, and then look at the iPhone. Take a guess at which came out first. I'm betting 99.999% said the iPhone. Wrong. Every time somebody insult your precious "slice of heaven" iPhone, you flip out and act like he's some guy from the stone age. I personally don't like either Microsoft (except for xbox 360) or Apple. But I use Microsft running systems, because they're less expensive and I have a choice between Apple moniter, apple mouse, apple keyboard, apple ipod, apple iTunes, apple QuickTime, apple OS... with microsoft you can use acer, dell, KDS, HP, Toshiba, and all of the other brands that AREN'T apple. But remember, I never once throughout that said that I hated apple. I don't despise the iPhone, I despise it's advertising group. And before you beat me down with you finely white-glossed stick of fruits, let me say that I have used almost every apple product that's hot right now, including the iTouch and the iPhone. Now please, please read this over before bashing it, read it over again, and check out a prada/iPhone or iPod/iRiver comparison photo...
wow a $1000 phone, where is that? I think iphone is more towards grownups with sex indentity crisis and snapy chicks, i dont think i could respect myself if i buy one
I'm in Bangkok, Thailand right now. Last night I cruised through the third floor of the MBK Center, which houses hundreds of booths selling nothing but cell phones. Nearly every booth seemed to have a few iPhones on display. I'll let you guess how many of those were intended for activation on the AT&T network :P
I could not imagine a world were Apple Sells 1 Million Phones a day.
They have one phone product. It is a smart phone product and I could not imagine any phone Apple makes not being an expesive smart phone product.
Nokia makes all kinds of phone.
Good luck Apple. I'll be keeping my E62 for now.