iPhone 6 will drive Apple Christmas sales to a healthy gain. KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that he predicts 71.5 million iPhone 6 sales in the fourth quarter of 2014. That is a large percentage gain (40%) over the same quarter last year and almost a doubling (82%) of the sales in the previous quarter.

Apple had been losing sales to Android phones which feature larger screen sizes than the standard 4” screen. But with the iPhone 6, Apple is directly competing with those phones. The iPhone 6 Plus features a 5.5” screen. The company is facing a lot of demand and supply issues could hold back the final sales numbers.

Other iPhones will also sell during the quarter including the iPhone 5S, the iPhone 5C and the iPhone 4S. These older models still sell well in oversees markets as demonstrated by the buyback values that many in America see when they upgrade their Apple phones.

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