iPhone 5 was put up for sale on September 21, iPad Mini on November 2 and both products seem to have sales well above expectations, at least if we are to believe a report written by an American analyst. Katy Huberty is a Morgan Stanley analyst and claims that from the discussions with Apple's partners, she found out that the number of units sold by the company was much higher than initially expected. Huberty says that Apple could sell 46 million iPhone terminals in Q4 2012 and 23 million iPad tablets, figures clearly higher than those recorded in the same period last year.
"Key suppliers into iPhone and iPad noted above seasonal March quarter order trends, stronger than expected December quarter revenue, and the potential to further upside before year-end," Huberty wrote. She believes that Apple will outpace Wall Street expectations in the December quarter. Market watchers generally expect Apple to sell 46 million iPhones and 23 million iPads in the three-month frame. She also thinks Apple will again beat expectations in the March quarter, when Wall Street forecasts Apple will sell 43 million iPhones and 19 million iPadss.
It seems that Apple's partners would no longer have problems producing enough components for the iPhone 5 terminal, the production process would have entered a normal phase, and in the coming months we can expect that the supply will reach the demand. For now, predictions of this kind have proven to be overturned when Apple announces the financial results and I don't think that 46 million iPhone terminals can be sold in 3 months, even if we are in the winter holiday season.
