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The article mentions Apple has 1.2 billion active users. They need 0.014% of those to buy one to hit that number. The bigger question, also mentioned in the ar
by svnt 3y ago
The article mentions Apple has 1.2 billion active users. They need 0.014% of those to buy one to hit that number.
The bigger question, also mentioned in the article, is how many of those preorders are scalpers.
- heliophobicdude 3y agoSome that I follow are pre-ordering multiples but intending to return all but one. Some did it to secure a launch day model or specific fit.
- svnt 3y agoI find the scalpers always have such reasonable sounding rationalizations.
- padjo 3y agoIt’s only available to US users, so your math is probably a bit off.
- svnt 3y agoSo you’re saying more scalpers than I thought? More seriously I found 150 million active iPhones in the USA, which would make it roughly 0.12%, or we can use 40% of revenue to scale our original guess (since presumably the US contains a large proportion of those 1.2 billion who would purchase a $3500 device) and get to 0.035%.