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The Global Reach of the First Million 3G iPhones

longapple:

Apple DID say "in 2008", not "by end of 2008". Google the conference call transcript one or two quarters ago. I got on Kincaid's case for sloppy reporting, but here he's right.

(In either case, it's gonna happen.)

The Global Reach of the First Million 3G iPhones

Don't these journalists even read what they write!? "Of course, the two figures are hardly comparable" he says of the earlier 74-day 1 million mark to the more recent 3-day one because the earlier iPhone "was exclusive to the US for months".

Then, IN THE VERY NEXT SENTENCE he says "the United States accounts for 60% of all units sold during the three day period, with a total of 600,000".

So then, let's compare 1 mil in the US in 74 days against 0.6 mil in the US in THREE DAYS! A little bit of evidence for something, eh? now I'm not claiming this as a continued sale rate, but c'mon, the latter sentence sure undercuts the former, doesn't it!

And of course it "remains to be seen... if Apple can reach its goal of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008"! That's trivially true -- it's August! And that three-day accomplishment make sit very, very likely!

Oh, the pressure of those publishing deadlines...