That seems like a stggering figure, but knowing how powerful a selling machine Wal-Mart can really be, it isn’t that shocking really. Analyst Gene Munster, well-known analyst about all things Apple, says that not only will Apple sell over 45 million iPhones next year, but over a tenth of them will be sold right here in America at Wal-Mart.

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Apparently he didn’t change his numbers from before the announcement of the Walmart deal, since he had already planned on Apple finding




other ways to sell the iPhone. But man, that’s a lot of iPhones – enough to give everyone in my current city of Chicago an iPhone, and then some to spare. Truly amazing, but no one has stepped forward to declare him crazy yet, so it sounds very plausible.

And no one’s ever been proven wrong overestimating Apple sales we’d guess. If you think iPhones are commonplace now, wait until you see them being pushed by the corporate behemoth that is Wal-Mart.



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    One Comment to “Analyst says: Wal-Mart will sell over 4.5 million iPhones in 2009”

    1. on 14 Dec 2008 at 5:26 pmGadget Sleuth

      None of that shocks me at all. Wal-Mart is fully capable of selling that number of iPhones, maybe more. This mega-store deal could be a huge stepping stone for the future of the platform.

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