Network Provider for iPhones in Different Countries

Here is the list of the carrier that iPhone comes locked with in each of the countries it is sold or shall be sold.

US - AT&T
Germany - T Mobile
UK - O2
France - Orange
Ireland - O2
Austria - T Mobile
Canada - Rogers
Mexico - Telcel
Italy - TIM
Japan - NTT DoCoMo
Australia - Telstra Mobile
China - China Mobile
India - Bharti Airtel
Spain - MoviStar

What Percent of America Newly Owned an iPod Last Quarter?

40 percent of iPod sales in the fourth quarter of 2007 were from first time buyers. That is 40 percent of 22.1 million iPods that were sold in this time period. This roughly translates to 3 percent of America buying iPod for actually the first time just in the single quarter.  Since the total sales was 22.1 million, this translates to 7 percent of America buying an iPod just in the last quarter of 2007.

Sales Target for iPhone in 2008

Apple COO has made a sales forecast of 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. Mr.Cook says with the progress till now, the company is on the right track to reach that sales figure. iPhones are now available in USA, UK, Germany and France and the company has sold more than 4 million units till the end of last year.

Worldwide Distribution of Unlocked iPhones

Apple has an agreement with AT&T to sell iPhones enabled with only the latter’s network. However unlocking the iPhone is not that uncommon, if not easy.

Number of iPhones sold till date : 3.75 million
iPhones believed to be unlocked : 1 million

Number of iPhones expected to be sold by end of 2008 : 10 million
iPhones expected to be unlocked : 2.5 million

iTunes vs. Zune

This comparison is solely for the Christmas day 2007.

Market share of visits to Zune increased by 392% compared to the previous day
Market share of visits to the Apple store(to download iTunes) increased by 169% compared to previous day

Market Share of visits to Zune on Christmas day : 0.09%
Market Share of visits to iTunes on Christmas day : 0.68%

Residual Impact of iPhones and iPods on Apple’s Revenue

This post is not about the revenue from sales of iPods and iPhones. It is about the sale of songs, movies and TV Shows through iTunes.

5 Million iPhones are expected to be sold by the end of 2007
25 Million is the iPod sale for the current quarter
This gives a total of 5-10 million widescreen devices that provide channel for revenue through sale of digital content through iTunes

iTunes has rights to
6 million songs
500 movies
550 television shows

This has resulted in sales of three billion songs, two million movies and hundred million television shows.

DRM-free Music: Apple vs. Amazon

Amazon is currently winning over Apple.

Amazon
Collections from
Warner Music Group ( Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Green Day)
EMI
Universal
and 33,000 independent labels

The total catalog is of about 2.9 million songs. Amazon lets tracks to be priced variably

Apple iTunes
DRM-free music only from EMI. Catalog is of about 6 million tracks and they are priced at fixed rate (99 cents a track).

Rent Videos through iTunes

The deal is between Apple and 20th Century Fox. This shall be announced formally on Jan 14.

Possible video rental charge :$2.99 for 30 days.

How many iPhones sold till now?

Apple’s target : 10 million iPhones to be sold by end of 2008

No. of days to sell the first million iPhones : 74
Expected number of sales by end of 2007 : 5 million
Contribution of sales from Europe : 1 million

iPhone popularity US vs. Europe

USA beats Europe hands down when it comes to iPhone sales. Apple had sold 270,000 units of iPhones in the first week of sales in US. But, the sales in Europe has been slow due to competition from the smart devices of the local favorite, Nokia. The sales numbers at the end of around one week of sales are

France : 30,000
Germany : 10,000