Verizon iPhone sales may be “performing a little under what Apple and Verizon anticipated,” according to BGR.com, which cites sales numbers apparently leaked to the site from one of its sources inside Apple.
The data reportedly comes from five Apple retail locations, “including two very, very prominent Apple stores,” and includes combined sales numbers for the first five days of the Verizon’s iPhone 4 availability compared to the first five days that AT&T’s iPhone 4 model was available:
Thursday: Verizon = 909, AT&T = 539
Friday: Verizon = 916, AT&T = 680
Saturday: Verizon = 660, AT&T = 471
Sunday: Verizon = 796, AT&T = 701
Monday: Verizon = 711, AT&T = 618
BGR.com further reports that the Verizon iPhone pre-order sales that took place before the handset became available in retail stores “amounted to around 550,000 units” between both Apple’s and Verizon’s websites.
And finally, the supposed source inside Apple relayed some interesting stats about which kinds of customers bought the Verizon iPhone.
Apparently 30% were Android users, 25% were BlackBerry users and 14% were former AT&T iPhone owners. “The remaining percent didn’t want to say, didn’t have a smartphone, or didn’t have a phone prior to making their iPhone 4 purchases last week,” according to the site.
It’s important to note that, if legit, these are merely initial sales numbers for a small subset of Apple stores. Verizon retail stores aren’t taken into account and there are other less tangible aspects at play. Most glaringly, plenty of potential Verizon iPhone owners may already be locked into a contract, and the iPhone 5 is expected to be announced in a few short months.
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