Re: iPhone Sales: 8 million - That's a lot of iPhones!

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:43:55 -0700 (PDT), 4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Selling 8 million iPhones
>by Dave Caolo
>
>
>It's a numbers game. But not the numbers you're thinking of.
>
>The IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number is on all
>GSM and UMTS mobile phones, including the iPhone. The enterprising
>geeks at AFB and Investor Village have been collecting every iPhone
>IMEI they could get their hands on and adding them to a Google
>speadsheet.
>
>After performing the voodoo that such a spreadsheet allows,
>researchers have figured out that Apple has manufactured at least
>5,649,000 iPhone 3Gs. Add that to the 2.4 million 1st generation
>iPhones sold in 2008, and you arrive at 8 million iPhones.
>
>That's a lot of iPhones.
>
>These are unofficial numbers, of course. But if these folks are
>correct, Apple will reach their goal of 10 million iPhones sold in
>2008 with room to spare.


Just wait till the iPhone tweaks for the Christmas market.