Citing those pesky ever-present “insiders,” 9 to 5 Mac’s Cleve Nettles reports, “Apple expects to announce sales of roughly five million iPhones at Macworld [Conference and Expo] 2008 in January. Of these, around one million are expected to come from Europe.”
“Apple had originally expected to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 and reaching the halfway point this early is likely to bolster Apple’s stock price,” Nettles writes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple could announce sales of 5 gazillion iPhones since last Tuesday and the bears would still find ways to talk the stock price down a buck and a half.
Nooo! Release it in Australia, quick. I wanna be part of the cool gang. The first 5 million.
In case you folks didn’t know, that article pointed to by Mr. Tang is an article that lampoons attempts by Microsoft to clone Apple’s culture, marketing, and ultimately sales. It’s a joke.
Wingsy, in case you didn’t know, yeah… We all knew that before clicking.
Dude, it’s The Onion, what were you honestly expecting?
FYI – Apple is not at the “halfway point” to any iPhone goal. The goal was 10 million iPhones sold in calendar year 2008, not by the end of 2008, as stated by Steve Jobs during MacWorld’s keynote. So Apple gets to start counting over again on January 1st.
However, if some folks want to say its halfway to 10 million and raise the stock price even more pre-MacWorld 2008, that’s OK by me.
Yes, half of 10 is 5, so it’s halfway.
How the heck could Germany, UK, and France already sold 1M iPhones? I mean, there aren’t many Apple stores there to show it off to consumers. Seems way too high, and the stock will drop when they announce a hefty 2.5M instead.
the bears? eh…
How ’bout D-a-a-a Bears.
UK, France and Germany they are crazy for the iPhone, much crazy!!!