Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday mark the start of the holidays as well as the shopping and gift-giving season. In line with the shopping spree happening this week, KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted that iPhone 6 sales will be on a steady increase.
Kuo, who has a credible reputation when it comes to Apple-related predictions, anticipates that Apple will sell 71.5 million units of iPhones in the last quarter of 2014, as reported by AppleInsider. The surge of sales will be from the 4.7-inch variant of the iPhone 6 fueled by deals and discounts this season. If his prediction proves to be accurate, it will beat last year's iPhone sales of 51 million units. The fourth quarter has always been the strongest quarter of Apple in terms of sales, thus, an increase in sales is naturally expected. Kuo added in his investors' report that there will be a decline in sales in Q1 2015 by 21.6 million.
While the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 will have a boost in sales, iPhone 6 Plus will have a lag in sales due to its higher price. By March 2015, sales will slip to 10.2 million. The iPhone 5S, 5C and 4S sales will decrease as well.
Part of the prophecy on the increase of iPhone 6 sales is the continued decrease in sales of Samsung smartphones. For the past two quarters, the South Korean tech company recorded profit losses stemming from the unpopularity of its flagship smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S5.
The new iPhones mark the major shift in Apple smartphones as the handsets pack larger screen displays. For the longest time, iPhones where stuck with 3.5-inch and 4-inch screens that has become a major contributing factor in the drastic drop of iPhone sales in the recent past.
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus sport 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches of screen display, respectively. Other features of the smartphones are A8 processor, Adreno 420 GPU, iOS 8, 8 MP back camera, TouchID fingerprint sensor, and larger internal storage of up to 128 GB.
