It’s been mostly doom and gloom where iPhone sales and forecasts are concerned,but one analyst believes that the iPhone 7 could see record sales in September, reports trade Insider. BMO Capital Markets analyst Tim Long says the reason is because such a tall proportion of existing iPhone owners currently have a model two or more years old.
Twenty-five percent of the installed user base” is poised for an upgrade, and Long believes — an audience of 120 million phones. BMO’s Long went back through the history of all iPhone sales and calculated that on average,17% of users upgrade as soon as the next year’s model comes out; 58% upgrade a year after that; and 22% the year after that. Only 2% of users hang on longer.
While he’s predicting a huge number, the underlying figures would seem to support his contention that we can expect a marked uptake in sales even if this year’s model is less visually distinctive than we’d normally expect from a brand novel model … more…
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Source: 9to5mac.com