PRODUCT PROFILE

Latest Dublin Prices

NAME
LATEST
CHANGE
Aer Lingus 1.55 -0.01 more
BoI 0.19 0.00 more
CRH 16.26 -0.15 more
Elan 9.53 0.06 more
Glanbia 10.80 0.00 more
Grafton 5.65 0.11 more
Greencore 0.64 -0.02 more
Ind. News 0.12 0.01 more
Ryanair 6.74 -0.01 more

 

Apple sells 2 million new iPhone 5s

Monday, September 17 16:23:15

Demand for Apple's new iPhone 5 has exceeded initial supply as the company booked 2 million orders in one day and pushed the delivery date for some preorders to next month.

Apple said that it would deliver most preordered phones as planned by Friday, the first day of delivery, but many would not be available until October.

It is not unusual for Apple products to sell out the first day. Last October, the company booked 1 million orders for the previous iPhone, the 4S, in the first 24 hours. That beat Apple's previous one-day record of 600,000 sales for the iPhone 4.

Shares of Apple were up 1 percent at $698.50 in early trading on Monday.

The latest strong preorders could mean a strong holiday quarter for Apple. The iPhone is the marquee device for the company and accounts for half of its revenue.

Given the demand for the device so far and Apple's aggressive rollout of it internationally, some analysts raised their sales estimates.

Canaccord Genuity technology analyst Michael Walkley said he now expected Apple to ship 9 million to 10 million iPhone 5s from Friday to Sept. 29, the last day of fiscal 2012.

Baird Equity Research William Power estimates that Apple may have booked sales of roughly 5 million iPhone 5s in the first three days. Last year, it sold 4 million iPhone 4S units in that time. The new phone, which will appear in stores on Friday for walk-in purchases, has a larger, 4-inch screen and is slimmer and far lighter than the previous model. The iPhone 5 supports the faster 4G network and also comes with a number of software updates, including Apple's new in-house maps feature.

Apple began taking orders for the iPhone 5 at midnight Pacific time on Friday (0700 GMT Saturday). Shipping dates for the smartphone slipped by a week within an hour of the start of preorders. On Monday morning, Apple's U.S. store, at www.apple.com, showed preorders placed at that time would take two to three weeks to ship. (C ) Reuters