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Demand May Have Split Between Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5s and 5c in First Weekend

September 26, 2013 11:21 AM EDT

It's hard to argue that Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) had anything but a successful first weekend of iPhone 5s and 5c sales. But, just how many of the total were the more-expensive iPhone 5s?

AppleInsider cites KGI Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo in saying that the mix might have been split evenly. The analyst suspects that about 3.5 million to 4.5 million of the 9 million total activations might have been for the iPhone 5s, while the iPhone 5c... More