(Credit: CNET) Apple likely sold around 35.5 million iPhone last quarter, according to Piper Jaffay analyst Gene Munster. In an investors note out today, the analyst cited the 4 million iPhones activated by Verizon last quarter, representing a 56 percent share of the carrier’s smartphone sales and inline with his expectations. Though that number is down from the December quarter’s 63 percent, Munster believes such a decline is expected since the holiday quarter was the first full quarter of iPhone 5 sales, a period when the phone’s share of the market is typically at its strongest. “The Mar-13 Verizon results show stability in iPhone’s franchise in the US which is a positive, but we caution the International wild card,” Munster said. “Separately, given we only have the Verizon numbers, it’s difficult to predict total iPhones sold in the Mar-13 quarter.
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