At the presentation financial results for Q3 2011, Apple announced that it sold no less than 20.3 million iPhone terminals in just 3 months. Making a comparison with previous years, Apple sold 25.09 million iPhone terminals in the whole year 2009 and 35.8% more in the whole year 2010. Practically in 3 months Apple sold enough iPhone terminals to cover the sales on 10 months recorded in 2009. Of course, we are only talking about the third fiscal quarter of 2011, so we still have one more to go, but Apple predicts that it will sell fewer iPhone terminals than in the previous months.
Of the 25.09 million Apple iPhones sold in 2009, 35.8% of them came during Apple's first and second calendar quarters. In 2010 that number was 36.1%. Using calendar 2011 iPhone sales numbers and a 36% average, Apple is on track to sell a whopping 108.3 million iPhones this year. To put that in perspective, 108.3 million iPhones would be 20% more than it sold in all of 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 combined.
Even in these conditions, those from The Loop I claim that Apple could sell 108 million iPhone terminals in 2011, that is, it will sell more iPhones in a single year than it sold in the previous 4 years. From 2007 to 2011 Apple sold less than 108 million iPhone terminals and it seems that now it will break its own record after it has already surpassed Nokia in the top of the biggest smartphone manufacturers in the world. The growth recorded by Apple is absolutely spectacular and the iPhone 5 will probably generate even greater sales for the company from Cupertino.
