iPhone 5 vs. iPhone 4S Availability [Chart]

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Posted January 15, 2013 at 9:08pm by Shalom Levytam

Asymco analyst Horace Dediu charts the availability of the iPhone 5 vs. the iPhone 4S in a report released today. Dediu notes that MacStories did a good just showing how country roll-outs have changed; however, suggests that looking at population addressed by licensed Apple carriers is a better measure.

I plotted the “potential buyers” as the number of subs addressed by iPhone-carrying operators in the launch countries according to the time when the launches happened. I did so for the iPhone 4S in 2011 and the iPhone 5 in 2012.

Now we can address availability as the area under each of these lines. The figure for the iPhone 4S adds up to be 100 billion “subscriber-days” and for the iPhone 5 it’s 130 billion subscriber-days during Q4 2011 and Q4 2012, respectively.

That means the iPhone 5 was 30% more available than the iPhone 4S. A pretty big improvement.

Take a look at the chart below or hit the link for more analysis...

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tomash72 - January 16, 2013 at 7:02am

Apple has done an outstanding job with the 5 and I expect that they will outperform the competition by far with the 5S, modifications will enhance the durability I expect. Looking forward to the added strength of the corning glass screens!! maybe a hardened case?? Difficult to imagine the improvements to the function, but I expect there will be. Looking forward to it.

English - January 16, 2013 at 6:56am

Does anyone know how to write proper english anymore?

tomash72 - January 16, 2013 at 7:06am

looks like typos and abreviations to me,get over it!!

XStationBR - January 16, 2013 at 7:11am

I'm Brazilian and don't speak English well. Sorry professor.

moonshine - January 16, 2013 at 7:44am

why you people think we need to be from English speaking countries in order to log in to iclarified. my english do not need to be well for me to be able to understand the news and be able to communicate.

tedfred - January 16, 2013 at 5:24am

What improvement is there? Increased availability could suggest lower demand compared to Samsung.

XStationBR - January 16, 2013 at 5:35am

Samsung Wins just in their own world. If against Apple World, Samsung is so far away from winning. I don't want any more Android systems in my home. I tried for years using all devices with systems like Cyanogen Mod and retail versions of Android OS, but none work as they should. When we want to play on a smartphone, we want free games or cracked games, but on Android you often fail, crash, or the game is for another platform. If you buy on Google Play Store, sometimes you can't play the game because it is not available for that phone. Like Razr i, Atrix and others I had, S2 had more problems like Battery Drain. And S3 had problems like crashing or an unstable system. These are reasons I don't like Android. In iOS with Jailbreak, if you download a game and it doesn't work, it's usually because it's for iPad and not another phone from the same platform. Samsung wins against Motorola or Oppo, but Apple is in a different league.

tomash72 - January 16, 2013 at 7:09am

what planet are you from?? 5 outperforms all competition.....

Xstationbr - January 16, 2013 at 3:11am

I dont submit i think the iPhone 5 is the best great phone but when Apple try to stop Jailbreak everybody will try other options like Android open os, or iPhone 4S because had jailbreak. When Jailbreak exists Apple wins. I bet when Jailbreak Unthetered Is Out For All Devices Like iPhone 5 and 4S on IOS 602 this all changes lot. Just waiting for pod2g.

ringo - January 16, 2013 at 1:33am

The 4s is the better phone anyways the 5 is useless

tomash72 - January 16, 2013 at 6:52am

If the iPhone 5 is useless then the android and other competitors are none existant.

me - January 15, 2013 at 9:28pm

This is completely incorrect stories writer stated that spotted iphone 5 in 2012 'I did so for the iPhone 4S in 2011 and the iPhone 5 in 2012.' then now stated that iphone 5 came out in 2011 where he got this information from 'iPhone 5 it’s 130 billion subscriber-days during Q4 2011 and Q4 2012, respectively.'