Let’s Talk Numbers… Then Let’s Talk About iPhone’s World Domination
More international iPhone deals were announced today- this time by France Telecom’s Orange subsidiary. This adds ten MORE countries to the exploding list of nations in which the iPhone will be available.
That means, according to AppleInsider, that in JUST THE LAST TWO WEEKS Apple quadrupled the market in which the iPhone will be available. They note that, according to Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster,
Currently Apple’s total addressable market includes 153 million subscribers in 6 countries with AT&T, T-Mobile Germany and Austria, O2, and Orange. These announcements increase those numbers to 575 million subscribers in 42 countries including recent agreements with Vodafone, SingTel, American Movil, Swisscom, and Orange.
Let’s make sure those numbers didn’t pass you by…
Two weeks ago there were 153 million possible iPhone purchasers.
Currently there are (or soon will be) 575 million possible iPhone purchasers.
What does that mean? It means Munster is now more confident than ever in his earlier predictions that the company will sell 12.9 million iPhones this year and 45 million next year. As he explained-
…Apple sold 3.7 million iPhones in 2007 into a total addressable market of 148 million subscribers (or 3 percent penetration). Taking the recent carrier announcements into consideration, we are modeling for Apple’s penetration rate to remain at 3 percent in 2008 and double to 6 percent in 2009.
For more number-crunching specifics check out the article over at AppleInsider.
