ThunderBolt sales Numbers

[Proph]

thought some people might find this interesting (and i believe there were some threads asking). some of the numbers from verizon quarterly report, they activated 260,000 thunderbolts in the first two weeks it went on sale.

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[jcnyc]

Extrapolate that with some decay for a month and you're looking at around half a million tbolts sold to date. Not too bad.

 

[chris2k5]

Not bad sales but no where near the "outselling the iPhone" status a lot of analysts predicted. It seems to me the Droid X had more hype and sold more during the same time frame?!?!

 

[Proph]

Not bad sales but no where near the "outselling the iPhone" status a lot of analysts predicted. It seems to me the Droid X had more hype and sold more during the same time frame?!?!

they are always vague about numbers, but keep in mind the numbers today are for 2 weeks of thunderbolts and a little under 2 months of iphones. what you don't see if the "fade", more devices sold when it comes out as compared down the road. i mean if you take out that fact this happens you could say well that iphone sold for 8 weeks, 2.2million thats about 275k a week, thunderbolt did 130k a week but it had to compete with the iphone where the iphone didn't have the compete the majority of that time against the TB. makes you wonder if verizon had gone another direction and released the thunderbolt before the iphone how different those numbers might have been. i have heard more than one story of people who got tired of waiting for the thunderbolt.


i have the droid x and i remember the hype. the difference back then was there weren't many decent phones, today we have lots of choices. i mean when the X came out we basically only had the incredible. i guess i didn't get the LTE hype all that much until i saw it, had i known how good it was before the thunderbolt it would have been a much bigger deal to me.

 

[chris2k5]

I think that argument is quite invalid. The iPhone was out at least a month before so it wasn't like a primetime match up. And the iPhone had competition from other phones on Verizon as well.

I really want to see the droid x numbers. There were back orders for at least a month or two.

 

[AustinTech]

And the iPhone had competition from other phones on Verizon as well.

Like....? I wasn't aware of a phone running iOS that wasn't an iPhone.

Android phones that have been out for months aren't really much competition for a completely different phone. I know people who had no intention of getting a new phone on Verizon until the iPhone came out. They were intent on staying with their Blackberry or non-smart phone. Then the iPhone came out. And they bought it. Some of those same people wish they had my T-Bolt, even with it's occasional flaws.

 

[chris2k5]

Like....? I wasn't aware of a phone running iOS that wasn't an iPhone.

Android phones that have been out for months aren't really much competition for a completely different phone. I know people who had no intention of getting a new phone on Verizon until the iPhone came out. They were intent on staying with their Blackberry or non-smart phone. Then the iPhone came out. And they bought it. Some of those same people wish they had my T-Bolt, even with it's occasional flaws.

The original poster said the iPhone was out before the TB and the TB had to "compete" with the iPhone so its the same thing with the iPhone having to compete with other Android devices.

You can't say the TB had to compete with iPhone then say the iPhone didn't have to compete with Android...

The numbers are really telling of the whole story:
TB sold 130,000 a week
iPhone did 366,000 a week totaling 2.2 million

If the TB sold at the same rate every week, I assume the totals are at around 800,000 max right now (very optimistic numbers)

 

[DaveMo]

Android competes with iOS. For iOS there is essentially only a single option at a time. For Android, there are many that compete with one another.

Add to that the fact that the Thunderbolt is a 4G phone and many people are not in 4G areas.

There have long been people on Verizon that wanted an iPhone but couldn't get one without changing networks. Verizon customers that wanted an Android phone already had one before the Thunderbolt came out. It seems unreasonable to compare any single Android phone's sales with an iPhone.

 

[slinky]

Those numbers are pretty good considering that there wasn't much advertising for the Thunderbolt. Verizon publicized the iPhone so heavily that Fedex was furious after stockpiling extra manpower the week of the launch to find the sales tepid in comparison to what was expected. The rumors of the horrible battery life also did in the Thunderbolt's numbers. And HTC and VZW both deserve every bit of criticism they get on this. It was a painfully dumb decision to use a 1400mAh battery in there.

 

[BetaMan]

I had several clients that wanted Thnderbolts, but got tired of waiting for it. They ended up buying iPhones thinking they would take them back when the Thunderbolt came out within a few weeks. Of course, that didn't happen and they ended up keeping the iPhones. They still want the Thunderbolt though but Verizon drug their feet about releasing this thing.

 

[chris2k5]

Those numbers are pretty good considering that there wasn't much advertising for the Thunderbolt. Verizon publicized the iPhone so heavily that Fedex was furious after stockpiling extra manpower the week of the launch to find the sales tepid in comparison to what was expected. The rumors of the horrible battery life also did in the Thunderbolt's numbers. And HTC and VZW both deserve every bit of criticism they get on this. It was a painfully dumb decision to use a 1400mAh battery in there.

There are WAY more Thunderbolt ads and commercials than iPhone commercials. That is for SURE.

 

[stanlalee]

There are WAY more Thunderbolt ads and commercials than iPhone commercials. That is for SURE.

Not here there arent/werent. There are more LTE commercials (of late) but not thunderbolt which I dont understand since 4G is nowhere close to my area. apple does a way better job advertising than verizon has done for ANY android phone and verizon's "if you dont have an iphone" ad is the best they've ever done for a smartphone (actually showing apps that sell phones and might aww someone who hasn't a clue about smartphones...like apple commercials do). That iphone commercial and the orginal "can you here me now" iphone commercial ran WAY more than thunderbolt commercials. You click verizon wireless website what do you get: a seperate deticated page to the iphone as if its something different than a smartphone.

 

[slinky]

There are WAY more Thunderbolt ads and commercials than iPhone commercials. That is for SURE.

I don't know where you are. But here in the biggest city in the country, the Verizon iPhone ads and store displays have been far more prominent. In 3 stores in Manhattan, I've seen the TB in the back and the iPhone up front. The fact that VZW could bungle the Thunderbolt release as badly as they did tells you all you need to know about which phone they prioritized. For them, the TB is almost like a test phone they knew would sell and didn't go overboard marketing.

The original Droid 1 - now that was a marketing blitz.

 

[Nor*Cal]

I don't get the iPhone vs. Thunderbolt sales comparison. iPhone is the only option if you want iOS, Android however has many different phones to choose from. It's not like everyone that wanted an Android phone on Verizon in the last 5 weeks bought the Thunderbolt. I'm sure some of the older Android phones are still selling, especially with the price reductions.

iOS vs. Android sales comparison... that, I get.