KenC

iPhone Production Rumors Swirl

Let me point out that the rumor of 800k iPhone 3Gs a week started, oh, way back in mid-to-early June. There was a report in Barrons picked up by Henry Blodget.

If you recall, there was a "negative" report spun that said production of the iPhone had been "slashed", 16% from the original 3rdQ order of 12M, which results in 10.2M. Of course, if you do the math, that's about 800k phones a week. If you add a runrate of 12M for the 4thQ, that's 22.2M iPhone 3Gs ordered for 2008. Add in the 2M EDGE iPhones and that's about 24M iPhones in 2008. Of course, they won't all be sold this year, but still, that's over double the oft-quoted target of Steve Jobs for 10M in 2008.