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Did Apple Manufacture a First-Day iPhone Shortage?

Why would apple turn customers away after standing in line for hours. Pissing off customers again after the orginal release contraversy (under cutting early adopters) would make no sense. I believe Apple underestimated the success of the iphone greatly and again got caught with under supply. It made since to me that the large number of people buying the Iphone are moving up from ipods and MP3 players to the iphone with its multimedia and smartphone capabilities. Their estimates may be as high as 3x off. Why would one buy a $189 4GB ipod nano when they could get an 8GB iphone for the same price.

Apple will sale at least 15 million of these things in 2008 and as much as 8 million this Christmas. Next year will be off the charts with north of 35+ million sold. Getting any higher will depend on the success of RIMMS, Samsung and Nokia's new offerings. I suspect they will be have very competitive products.