According to RBC analyst Amit Daryanani, Apple could sell up to 4.8 million T-Mobile iPhones in the first year of the device’s availability on the carrier’s network. To compare, first-year iPhone sales at third-largest U.S. provider Sprint reached 6.3 million units, accounting for roughly 20% of the company’s postpaid subscribers.
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At its recent quarterly call, Apple announced that it sold more than 100 iPad units since the product first debuted two and a half years ago, in March of 2010. Based on that report, Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley believes iPad sales will reach 101.6 million next year, largely thanks to the iPad mini release. That would allow the company to control over half of the overall tablet market, giving it a market share of 58.4%. With the tablet space again controlled by Apple, Walkley predicts Amazon to sell 10.7 units by end of 2013, while Samsung is thought to hit the 8.4 million sales figure.
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In the first days of iPhone 5 availability, sales of the new handset were somewhat hindered by supply issues, in particular low in-cell panel yield rates. According to Shaw Wu with Sterne Agee, though, Apple is now receiving new ultraslim touchscreens in a sufficient amount to meet the demand, and whether the company will be able to do that depends solely on its ability to put out enough units to ship all pending orders and fill up its retail stock.
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While the two biggest U.S. carriers, Verizon and AT&T, saw a sequential drop in their iPhone sales, Sprint revealed on Thursday that it sold 1.5 million handsets in the second quarter, the same number sold a quarter ago.
The company also announced that the device played an important part in luring new subscribers to its network, as 40% of iPhones were activated in the June quarter by new postpaid users. While the same 1.5 million iPhones were sold by Sprint in the previous frame, 44% of buyers were new to the carrier.
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