In Q4 2011 (Q1 2012 for Apple) the Apple company sold no less than 37.04 million iPhone terminals and most of them seem to be iPhone 4S terminals. In the USA, 9 out of 10 iPhones bought were iPhone 4S terminals and this says a lot about the popularity of the terminal which started as a disappointment but turned out to be a real success. Although the iPhone 4S has not yet recorded higher sales than the iPhone 4 terminal, it is very likely that this will happen until the fall when theoretically Apple should launch the iPhone 5/6/LTE or whatever the new device will be called.
According to CIRP's survey, iPhone sales in the US have favored the 4S above all other models since the device's Oct. 14 launch in 2011, despite some new and compelling pricing for the iPhone 4 and 3GS. The research house found the 4S to account for 89 percent of iPhone sales since its debut, while the iPhone 4 and 3GS accounted for 7 percent and 4 percent, respectively.
It is not known how the statistics look for Europe, but in the USA the 4 GB iPhone 16S terminals were the most sought after, perfectly normal considering that we are talking about the cheapest model of the newest iPhone. For Apple, Q4 2011 turned out to be the fiscal quarter that I believe will remain, for a long time, the most profitable in the company's history.
