The WSJ is reporting that Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus went on preorder in South Korea on Friday, following their official launch this Friday, October 31st, as part of the next wave of iPhone rollouts. Analyst estimates show that presales for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus topped 100,000 units. By comparison, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4 recorded a third of that number (around 30,000) in preorders in a similar timeframe when it launched in September.
The iPhone appears to be off to a great start on Samsung’s home turf, mirroring its success around the world. However, some qualifications to the preorders comparison should be noted. Primarily, the 100,000 number is essentially combining sales of two devices (one of which is a phablet) versus sales of just one Samsung Galaxy Note device. If you cut the numbers in half, Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus is still outperforming its domestic rival but by nowhere near the same margin.
In addition, Samsung launches many varieties of its phablets across the year, practically on a monthly basis. This means that Galaxy phone launches are not as ‘landmark’ as the once-a-year iPhone schedule. Although there is little doubt that the iPhone will do well in South Korea, we will have to wait for more concrete sales numbers to fall out before making any firm judgements on customer preferences.
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus go on sale in the region this Friday.
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SO . . . . Where’s our turd / troll Herb on this one?
Keeping a low profile I’d say. :)
Comments like this annoy me. Like the “in b4…” ones
So where is our turd/ troll Herb!!
It’s pretty good news for Apple considering how nationalistic S. Korea is. They prefer to patronize their local companies for electronics goods. No matter if iPhones sales in S. Korea aren’t outstanding. Any decent sales of iPhones should be considered a plus at least for anyone except Wall Street analysts.
I love it…. the Korean media does their very best to slam anything to do with Apple. One of the news outlets is so far up Samsung’s a$$ that they didn’t even bother to report that it was going on sale. In fact, throughout the iPhone’s history here (starting with the 3GS) they’ve done nothing but talk about how sales will underperform. It cracks me up to watch them squirm when news like this hits.
What a failed comparison. Samsung capped Note 4 pre-orders to 30,000 in Korea and you’re comparing 100,000 iPhone 6 “and iPhone 6 plus” units to only the Note 4.
That was noted. In 2 of the 3 paragraphs of the story…
The better question to ask is why Samsung did such a stupid thing when they knew they would be going up against a brand new iPhone. Not hundreds of thousands of devices ready in your largest market seems like a pretty idiotic move to me, man.