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Apple could ship nearly 50 million FaceTime-capable devices in 2010

Apple Online Store“Critics scoffed when Steve Jobs said he would ship ‘tens of millions’ by Dec. 31,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune. “How does… Steve Jobs deliver on his promise?”

MacDailyNews Take: With ease.

“First of all, it’s entirely possible that Jobs could do it with the iPhone 4 alone. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster — to pick on just one analyst — estimates that Apple will sell 11 million iPhones this quarter and 11.4 million next quarter,” P.E.D. reports.

“The new iPod touch, which began shipping this week, will almost certainly put FaceTime over the top. Apple will probably ship a couple million this month, and Munster estimates that it will sell 10.5 million in the quarter that starts Sept. 26,” P.E.D. reports. “The iPad probably won’t help much, even if — as one dubious rumor has it — Apple manages to ship a few of the camera-ready units before the end of the year “But if FaceTime does come to iChat before Christmas, that would allow Jobs to include in his total all the iMacs, MacBooks and MacBook Pros Apple ships in calendar 2010 — an estimated 13.4 million units, according to Munster.”

P.E.D. reports, “Grand total: roughly 48 million FaceTime devices.”

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