Markets opened down a buck fifty, notwithstanding the strong lift in Apple’s stock today, thanks in large part to sell serving statements out of TMUS and S. Both fledgling carriers cited robust sales for the iPhone 7 and are quite busy this morning congratulating themselves for a job well done, those data charging motherfuckers.
Pre-orders of iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus (AAPL) at Sprint are up more than 375% in the first three days over last year. Since Sprint began accepting pre-orders on Sept. 9, new and existing customers have been placing orders for iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus at a rate nearly four times greater than this time last year.
T-Mobile (TMUS) released sales information for this weekend’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus pre-order, which went live at the ‘Un-carrier’ last Friday, September 9th at midnight and “has gone on to shatter all previous iPhone pre-order records at T-Mobile. On top of that, pre-orders from Friday through Monday were up nearly 4x compared to the next most popular iPhone — and Friday set a single day sales record for any smartphone ever in T-Mobile US history…..Even before a blockbuster pre-order weekend, iPhone 7 also broke records for pre-registration at T-Mobile, making it the biggest pre-reg of all time, including pre-registrations for both iPhone 6s and the smash-hit iPhone 6.”
As such, shares of Apple are higher by 2.5%, in an otherwise morbid tape.
Apple is going to do amazingly well with the 7 release. It’s a major upgrade cycle in and of itself, and on top of that we have Samsung’s phones being placed on the Do Not Fly list.
Just imagine the sales of the iPhone 10th Anniversary Edition in 2017.