“So how did McNamee’s claim turn out? Well, let’s put it this way: If there was a foot-in-the-mouth award given every year, no one else would need to apply this year,” Siegler writes for TechCrunch. “Hell, it might take the prize for the whole decade.”
Siegler writes, “Estimates are that Apple sold somewhere between 250,000 to 500,000 iPhones in its first weekend on sale in 2007. The last estimates given for Pre sales was that it sold around 300,000 by the end of June. It’s entirely possible that there haven’t even been as many Pres sold so far as there were iPhones sold during its first weekend. That doesn’t just make McNamee’s claim look bad — it makes it impossible.”
“The fact of the matter is that the iPhone remains the hottest smartphone and may be the hottest platform overall on the planet, right now,” Siegler writes. “Apple has sold around 25 million iPhones. Palm has sold something probably south of a half million Pres — it’s a number that Sprint wouldn’t even say during its earnings call. And whatever the number was, it was not enough to stop the service from bleeding customers last quarter.”
There’s much more crow being served in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "GetMeOntop" for the heads up.]
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