RUMOR: Apple TV sales blowing away Apple’s internal expectations

Apple Store“Breaking news… from a long time personal friend that works in Cupertino directly with members of the elite Apple design group. Sadly, that group will never spill the beans on what they are designing, but earlier this week, one of the members of that group disclosed that Apple TV sales are absolutely through the roof, far beyond what Apple had planned,” Apple Recon reports.

Apple Recon reports, “Specifically, orders have already exceeded the original 100,000 order that Apple had placed with Inventec, and Apple is preparing to place a second order for twice that number.”

“Apple is now planning to sell over a million Apple TV devices leading up to the 2007 holiday season, and at least that many again during the Thanksgiving – Christmas period this year,” Apple Recon reports.

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]

Tour of Apple’s new Apple TV (3:58):

MacDailyNews Note: Apple Recon seems to have little or no track record, so take this report with more than just one grain of salt. It does, however, seem to jive with the fact that Apple TV has recently (not currently) topped the online Apple Store top sellers list.

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