Apple Sales - A little perspective

Apple is a victim of its own success.

Everybody who writes about Apple or critics it has lost all sense of objectivity. This is a direct result of the performance that Apple has been able to show, which itself defies objectivity.

Now, the analysts are crying hoarse that Apple has only managed to sell 5 Million iPhones in the first 3 days, not booked, sold! 

Let us just add a little perspective to this. The so called Android jaggernaut which is supposedly outselling iOS, whose poster child is Samsung's Galaxy S3, only managed to sell 10 Million unit in 2 months. Apple managed to sell half as many in 3 days! (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57477475-94/samsung-galaxy-s3-hits-10-million-sales-mark-early/)

If we go a little further and take Nokia Lumia as an example; although it is an unfair comparison to compare Apple with a firm that is hanging onto dear life; they managed 4 Million in an entire quarter. (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-19/nokia-reports-lumia-sales-topping-estimates-as-losses-widen.html)

So considering this, 5 Million is 3 days is huge. Analysts who have come to expect more and more just because Apple has been able to beat their expectation year after year, quarter after quarter. It is not going to go on forever. They need to start putting things into perspective.