5 million sales in one weekend isn't as good as "expected"?
News to me.
Considering stock issues, I am pretty sure they expected roughly this figure
"Apple on Monday said first weekend sales of the iPhone 5 topped five million, beating the opening weekend for the iPhone 4S nearly a year ago by 1 million units."
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/story/2...les/57834504/1
The iPhone 5 launched in nine countries last Friday, and will debut in 22 more countries on Friday, September 29.