Comments on: How many iPhones?

iPhone launch looks pretty good in the rearview mirror.

[pauldwaite]

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> "8 million this year certainly seems doable to the horned one what with the holiday buying-each-other-crap-we-don't-need season still ahead."

And the Europe launch. I hope.

[Bergamot Orange]

Not to mention,

Among phones, the iPhone is uniquely giftable, because you can buy one in a box, off the shelf, without having the recipient there and signing a contract.

[luomat]

1mil iPhones already activated

The 'lope wrote: "With the sales figure coming close to 1 million already"....

There are reports that 1 Million iPhones were activated within the first week. That doesn't even account for the people who bought them and then hacked it so they didn't have to sign up for AT&T.

I'd be willing to wager they are over 1mil now.

[Please use care when sele]

Vermont (and Canada)

Vermontors (and Canadians) still can't buy an iPhone. In Vermont AT&T has no
coverage (too many trees) and in Canada the only GSM provider (Rogers) has
data plans that are way too expensive for Apple's taste.

[KLevdc]

Apple Blew it with the phone

In retrospect, Apple blew a huge marketing opportunity. They should have rolled out the iphone -- minus the phone --first. A video, music, wifi device with the iphone interfce could have been a huge hit months ago. Then they could have sold the device with phone later -- and gotten another big sales hit. They could have sold millions last Christmas. Was it because the almighty (praise be he) Jobs was so wedded to the all-in-one concept that he stifled a huge potential market? Or is this coming at Christmas 2008?