Apple Could Sell 46.5 Million iPhones This Quarter

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I suppose that's one way of creating unnecessary hype.. Claim that the device is difficult to assemble, giving the impression that they'll be in short supply, then simply watch the orders roll in from gullible consumers.
 

bigdog44

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...could....could sell millions of units, if rich folk run out of toilet paper and are forced to buy replacement units...
 

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Zak couldn't resist reading the other article saying that the GS3 surpassed the iPhone in Q3 sales, so he wrote this article to say that apple is going to win next time.
 

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[citation][nom]Ironslice[/nom]Zak couldn't resist reading the other article saying that the GS3 surpassed the iPhone in Q3 sales, so he wrote this article to say that apple is going to win next time.[/citation]
You iHaters have turned now into just plain bigots. I notice you go after the author who is obviously the Apple beat writer for doing nothing more than report about anticipated sales, which is technology related which is the entire point of Tom's site. However, you seem to not notice he has written several non flattering articles about Apple as well.

Honestly, you are as bad, if not worse, than the iSheep. Worse that can be said about them is preferring what some people consider sub par technology, but you're ridiculing someone for something and can't even get it right to begin with.
 

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I wonder why no other products of other brand names have their sales numbers being reported independently?
No comparison to other products, just a straight up status report. For only 1 product.

Do we see this type of news about any other products from any other company?

How is this news?

When I look at the "Related Stories" below this there are WAY more entries than any other type of story.
This type of "news article" is happening really often here at Toms
 

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[citation][nom]otacon72[/nom]You Apple haters are now going after the writers of the articles....what a pathetic bunch you are. I agree with wildkitten you're worse then the Apple fanboys.[/citation]
They've been going after writers for years now. One of the reasons I read these articles is to see how pathetic the comments are. Religious views, sports fans, political beliefs, and fanboyism of technology, movies, or any sort of segment... they all breed the same blind, ignorant stupidity, and nothing will ever change their closed-minded beliefs. The delicious irony is that they become exactly what they rage against.
 

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i don't love or hate apple products, not a fan of the company, but i'm not so naive to think that other companies are all that much better

In other words, I don't want to never ever read about apple like some kind of traumatized child raped by the apple-man.
BUT
The titles of the articles don't lead me to think that they are non-news zero reporting pure data regurgitation and not even compared to other data for a sense of relativity.

This was like 1 line out of an excel file paraphrased into English and submitted as an article.

And you say "Then don't read the articles and stop whining"
How am I to know the difference between these garbage "articles" and the real news that DOES involve Apple that I don't mind reading about and sometimes find informative???

You are a troll.
 

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Comments are interresting.

Writer should seriously STOP writing article with "could" or "will" or "analyst expect".
If Tim expect sell it's OK since it's the CEO. But this article is PURE speculation from the "one analyst" present as a FACT.
Haters come because this article MAKE NO SENSE! And they turn mad like me.

This so more false information and disinformation base on speculation. Holiday season or not, Apple build his realm over disinformation and being talk about so much. It's like analyst, after first week, pre-talk, talk and post-talk. It's 5 times the SAME news and people turn crazy hearing about Apple so MUCH. For some, this boost their ego. For me I just turn mad.

This could be easily understand reading SS3 sale. Did I read an article with the title "Samsung Cound Sell X Milion SS3 This Quarter"? NO!. Did they "COULD"? no. They did it. This is 1 new NOT 5!

And if you think it just iHater... you're just color blind.
 

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[citation][nom]Miharu[/nom]Comments are interresting.Writer should seriously STOP writing article with "could" or "will" or "analyst expect".If Tim expect sell it's OK since it's the CEO. But this article is PURE speculation from the "one analyst" present as a FACT.Haters come because this article MAKE NO SENSE! And they turn mad like me.This so more false information and disinformation base on speculation. Holiday season or not, Apple build his realm over disinformation and being talk about so much. It's like analyst, after first week, pre-talk, talk and post-talk. It's 5 times the SAME news and people turn crazy hearing about Apple so MUCH. For some, this boost their ego. For me I just turn mad.This could be easily understand reading SS3 sale. Did I read an article with the title "Samsung Cound Sell X Milion SS3 This Quarter"? NO!. Did they "COULD"? no. They did it. This is 1 new NOT 5!And if you think it just iHater... you're just color blind.[/citation]
Actually the article does make sense. Many people who are tech enthusiasts are also investors. This is the type of article where the two meet. Not to mention, when I see articles like this about the S3 or other phones, I don't see these same people complaining. I actually see quite a few of them praising which shows hypocrisy.

It's also pretty pathetic for people to also bash Zak Islam when he is obviously the Apple beat writer for Tom's. His job is to write about Apple. Many commenters bash on him for being some sort of Apple fan kiddie when in fact he has written many articles about the bad side of Apple. Just 5 links below this article is one he wrote about how a company who won a lawsuit against Apple previously is once again suing them. Amazingly enough because it's not a flattering article about Apple, none of the iHaters are bashing Zak Islam in the comments in that article, but in comments like the ones you see here, you would think Zak would never write anything negative about Apple, which is clearly not the case.
 

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The question we all need to ask is why we don't see so many articles about Samsung's mobile range? That's right, there is no news! I feel if there were as many articles, the iPhone fanboys wouldn't be so quick to but down the Samsung articles!
 

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[citation][nom]Ironslice[/nom]Zak couldn't resist reading the other article saying that the GS3 surpassed the iPhone in Q3 sales, so he wrote this article to say that apple is going to win next time.[/citation]

S3 only beat the iPhone because it was competing with the 1 year old 4S and people we're waiting for the 5. Once the 5 is released, it sells almost 2:1 more than the S3.
 

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[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]Are there any readers on this site that actually care about Apple products? LOLI don't.[/citation]

Well considering the sheer number of comments each Apple article gets, it seems they do (good or bad).
 

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yeah, sure 46,5 million unit, like i would believe that, crapple trying to make impression that people actually buy their product :D
 

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It is, believe it or not. They're always people who will buy it.
 

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You can think that... but I don't think Tom's or others medias should be use to write "speculation article".
This could be interresting to tech enthusiasts and investors but... they just have to read specialised media like AppleInsider.
It's not because Starbucks or BestBuy expectation X milion sell... that should be see on Tom's! It's worst if it's analyst expectation...

There is a limit between mass media and specified media.
If Toms want so much be specified on Apple news, he should rename itself to Applehardware....

For S3 speculation, I didn't agree too. Some analysts just want make the same and create an hype.
I see this as propaganda and Apple "analyst" started the show.
They should just stop for both of them.
Anyway, analysts just present a bias opinion.
Next time I should just write an article and post on Tom since I'm a analyst too.

And the main reason why I see this as propaganda is based on this quote "Talk about it good, talk about it bad but you have talked about it. People will know it and buy it."
So if you can make people talk 5 times for the same news, you just brainwash them.
 

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[citation][nom]izmanq[/nom]yeah, sure 46,5 million unit, like i would believe that, crapple trying to make impression that people actually buy their product[/citation]
....and they are calling apple fanboys blind lol
 

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Having taken apart and putting back together one of these iPhone 5 myself, I can tell you it is indeed complicated to assemble. Like... unnecessarily difficult to assemble. Almost like the Apple hardware engineers made it complicated just to spite people who had to build and repair them.

Anyway, 46.5 million is a worthless number to me since the article didn't contain any information comparing the iPhone 5 to other phone sales. Common now, need comparisons.
 

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[citation][nom]hasten[/nom]In other news, Denver could sell $46.5 Million worth of weed this quarter. Zak give it up. We all are growing very quickly tired of your reporting.[/citation]

I have the feeling he has the most comments and page views of any other author on TH.
So apparently you guys are not that tired...
 

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I used to love this website very much. They used to talk about great new products and give reviews about it. I miss those "Nvidia, ATI, Intel, new motherboard, CPU, top cpu coolers... etc etc articles..... Now this site is full of irubbish articles... How much sales apple will get, apple suing some random company, how great is apple, the all new ios with some stupid new features..... Why not change the website name to TOMS CRAPPLE website.... and stupid zak acting like apple's b*tch... If I want to see bunch of stupid useless apple articles I will go to those stupid apple related websites.... please bring back the old toms and get rid of zak, he could work for crapple as bottom b*tch, you dont need him..
 
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