Apple typically announces how many phones they’ve managed to sell via pre-order on the first day, a number which has been typically high, but their recent silence has suggested that maybe they did not sell as many iPhone 5c units as predicted. One analyst has predicted that Apple could have sold 2.2 million units of the iPhone 5c, and Piper Jaffray analyst, Gene Munster, has chimed in with his own estimations and has revealed that he expects Apple to sell anywhere between 5-6 million iPhone units during the weekend that the iPhones go up for sale.According to Munster, he believes that the iPhone 5s could go on and sell 2.5 million units over the weekend, with the iPhone 5c expecting to sell about 3 million units. “Given last year’s in-store sales numbers, we are comfortable that Apple could sell 2.5 million iPhone 5S units this launch weekend […] Our estimate for the 5C is 3 million units sold during the launch weekend including 1 million online pre-orders and 2 million in stores.”
While the numbers are certainly higher than last year’s, assuming Munster’s predictions are accurate, it should be noted that back in 2012, Apple did not have China Mobile and NTT DOCOMO on their roster of carriers, and with those carriers being the biggest in their respective countries, it has been suggested that Apple’s numbers could be higher, but we guess we will just have to wait and see.