iPhone 8 will be presented on September 12 by company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, this being quite clear at this moment, the launch will take place on September 22. iPhone 8 is the most anticipated smartphone of this fall, and that's because it comes with a multitude of important changes from the Apple company, sales are going to increase accordingly for the entire series thanks to it.
iPhone 8 has been in the attention of analysts for a very long time, and now they are making the first estimates regarding the sales increases that it will generate for the iPhone series. We are talking about estimates that take into account the year 2018 and the impact that the iPhone 8 will have on the product line of the Apple company, those from Cupertino are going to have an excellent year, if we go by the analysts.
iPhone 8 will generate in 2018 increases in iPhone sales that are between 9.1% and 23% compared to 2017, depending on the analysts we read. Those from IDC estimate that iPhone 8 will generate a 9.1% increase in iPhone sales in 2018 compared to 2017, and this after in 2017 we will talk about an increase of only 1.5% compared to 2016, so in the end it is about an increase in sales of approximately 20 million units.
iPhone 8 - huge increases in iPhone sales in 2018
iPhone 8 would generate a 13% increase in iPhone sales in 2018 if we follow other Wall Street analysts, the difference being quite large between the estimates. Finally, other analysts are of the opinion that in fact iPhone sales in 2018 will increase by 23% compared to 2017 thanks to the iPhone 8, and here we are talking about approximately 40 million extra units sold by the Apple company throughout the year.
iPhone 8 will generate very high sales because it will be the first iPhone model in the last 3 years that comes with a new design, and this will increase Apple's sales in China. Until recently, China was the country that generated the most money for Apple, but the lack of change in the design of the iPhone substantially affected the sales of the phone, but the iPhone 8 will change that and generate sales increases in other markets as well.
"From there, things only get better for Apple as IDC anticipates the arrival of the iPhone 8 will spur a major upgrade cycle come 2018. Despite the new device launching later this year, IDC expects a majority of the shipments are likely to land early in 2018. IDC projects 9.1% growth in 2018 with the iPhone 8 and the new 7S/7S+ models playing a pivotal part in the near double-digit growth next year."
iPhone 8, in total, is going to help Apple win back some of the customers who left for other brands due to the lack of a new design. Apple's have attracted more and more Android users every year, but the iPhone 8 is set to bring the biggest increase in iPhone sales of all the models released in recent years, but of course we'll have to wait until 2018 to see if the estimates are true.
