Apple Inc. “said it sold 270,000 iPhones on June 30. Apple and AT&T combined sold iPhones at a rate of 9,000 units per hour, making my guess for total weekend sales 325,000, assuming a slowdown on Sunday,” Arik Hesseldahl reports for BusinessWeek.
“The most informed player, Apple itself, says it is on track to move a million iPhones by Sept. 30, when the current fiscal quarter closes. That would work out to a pace of more than 10,600 units per day. And given that Apple has a long history of forecasting low and then surprising Wall Street with numbers that come in substantially higher, my bet is that Apple will sell its millionth iPhone well before Sept. 30,” Hesseldahl reports.
“Moreover, Apple is predicting that it will break the 10 million-unit mark by the end of fiscal 2008, which is 14 months away. And you can bet new iterations of the iPhone are on the way,” Hesseldahl reports.
“Make no mistake. The iPod is and remains a big deal for Apple: It has sold 108 million units over nearly six years (including 9.8 million in the most recent quarter), and iPod sales have contributed more than $20 billion in revenue for Apple, not counting sales of music, videos, and iPod accessories,” Hesseldahl reports. “But unless something goes terribly wrong, the early data suggest that the iPhone will eclipse those figures, too. The iPhone looks to be the most successful Apple product ever. How’s that for a reality check?”
Full article here.
Apple has already passed the one million iPhone units sold milestone; they just didn’t issue a press release.*
*Source = Basic Math + Common Sense (an equation that seems to elude many Wall St. analysts, tech pundits, etc.)
[Revised, 4:59pm EDT: removed online sales reference. Thanks, bjh.]
do ya get it free if you happen to be number 1,000,000 ?
I want my zune-phone
waaaahh wahhhhhhhhhh
I’ll bet Apple sells at least one million iPhones during this current quarter alone. That would bring their total up to at least 1.3 million sold overall by the end of September.
Will Apple ever do anything with a Mac again so there’ll be something other than this damn phone to talk about?
Any source to back that up, MDN?
Didn’t think so…
Well, no iphones will be sold when the Apple store in store is set up with its full product line in August at Future Shop here in Ottawa, but it sure would make a difference in this Vista-oriented shop if it were, because the customer traffic would be sure to increase massively, be diverted from the Vista aisle, as it were.
We sure hope Apple and Rogers can get together on this no later than the end of this year.
Overheard in 1984:
Will Apple do anything with the Apple ][ again so there’ll be something other than this damn Mac to talk about?
@ Zune Tang …
“….I want my zune-phone
waaaahh wahhhhhhhhhh….”
Ancient Chinese Saying :
“.. Wish in one hand ………. and ……
Well, the magic word is ‘girls’.
If you think this post is off topic you’re wrong. girls make up a significant portion of Apple’s customers. girls buy a lot of iPods, probably more than boys do.
girls will all want an iPhone eventually.
girls rule.
The 10 million for 2008 is for the US market, now add another 10 million for the UK and Canada for 2008 WOW
“And given that Apple has a long history of forecasting low and then surprising Wall Street with numbers that come in substantially higher, my bet is that Apple will sell its millionth iPhone well before Sept. 30,” Hesseldahl reports.” — WOW, that’s going out on a limb! They have probably sold a million already!
“But unless something goes terribly wrong, the early data suggest that the iPhone will eclipse those (iPod) figures, too.” Are you sure? Duh! It took Apple 7 quarters to sell the 1 millionth iPod. They probably sold that many iPhones in the first week or three. Let me guess: Arik Hesseldahl isn’t really a gambling man!
I have it on best authority that MicroSloth will not call their copy-cat device the “Zune Phone.”
It will be marketed as the “TeleTurd”!
(You heard it here first.)
to Loki:
Any source to back that up, MDN?
Didn’t think so…
Not only did Apple sell, but AT&T had actually activated over one million iPhones. This is according to a sales person with AT&T Mobility Commerce Group:
http://www.waitingforiphone.com/2007/07/05/att-activates-over-1-million-iphones/
You may choose not to believe this source, but the source and the claim is there (in other words, MDN didn’t make this up).
Pay attention:
The iPhone is a hand held Mac.
iPhone news is Mac news.
Booyaksha!!
One million iPhones. Wow. You have to admit, we loves us some Apple products.
We have to step outside the RDF a bit though and ask ourselves, would we be as in love with this phone if it were made my Microsoft?
You know the answer.
That’s an interesting point Drive by. I’ve looked at my iPhone and pondered the concept that it’s essentially a hand held Mac. I just wish it acted like it.
MDN staff either need glasses or should go back to school ’cause they can’t count above 300000 without seeing triple.
Human thought, or more to the point, statement divides along lines of fact, and belief. Many consider belief a second class citizen, hence the various assurances heard about “this is a fact,” or like-wise nonsense.
In this realm, fact and belief are intermingled ruthlessly, and with and without guile, but at the end of the day, specifically yesterday, it’s clear AAPL is visionary, and an industry leader.
Everything else is just across that line.
I agree with the MDN Take that Apple has already passed one million iPhones sold. It has some reason for not making the news public. The iPhone is selling well enough without “wasting” more hype on it now. Keep the competition guessing about how well the iPhone is doing. Save that announcement for a key future date.
damn, analysts….I’m just going to sit here and enjoy my iPhone and both my Mac’s.
Drive by got it right … I guess. It’s a Mac. Maybe not a Big Mac (like the mini), but it has the OS in its genes and that’s what counts. Mostly. Be nice if it offered a bit more of “the usual”, but it’s Mac enough for this space.
Sales numbers … most of the 200K sold the first day were pent-up sales. Numbers fell off since. Still, if they “fell off” to that many a week, they will hit a million by the end of August.
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zune tang:
The zune phone is already available. It’s called Windows Mobile and it’s terrible. I should know, I traded in a WM5 phone for the iPhone.
Why would MS release a zune phone to compete with its own Windows Mobile platform? And piss off it’s partners at the same time? Oh wait, MS already did that with “(maybe) Plays for Sure”.
” would we be as in love with this phone if it were made my Microsoft? You know the answer.”
Yeah, we sure do- as if µ$oft ever, ever, ever developed a product in their frakking lives, much less a well-designed, user-intuitive, simply useful one. Right. Yeah, Like must have been yesterday, or something….
I guarantee you Apple would/will announce the one-millionth iPhone sold. Too think they sold that many without an announcement is just pure silliness. I’m a big Mac fan, but drinking that kool-aid is ridiculous.