Apple Has Already Reached 10 Million iPhone Sales in 2008?

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/10/06/apple-has-already-reached-10-million-iphone-sales-in-2008/

Seeking Alpha summarizes findings by MacObserver forum members who have been compiling iPhone IMEI numbers into a public spreadsheet.

According to those numbers, it appears that Apple may have already reached 10 million iPhone sales for 2008. According to the sequential Type Allocation Codes (TAC), Apple has reached 9.2 million iPhone 3Gs manufactured. When combined with the sales figures 2.4 million 1st generation iPhones sold earlier this year, it brings them well above the 10 million mark even if over a million 3G iPhones remain in the sales channel.

SeekingAlpha notes there are a few assumptions that may introduce some error into these estimates:

The actual number of handsets sold versus manufactured depends on a variety of factors including the amount of inventory Apple carries in its retail chain, defects that were destroyed, defects that were sold and then exchanged, display models etc.

A goal of 10 million iPhone sales in 2008 has been Apple's stated goal when first announced the iPhone in January 2007.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/98619-iphone-sales-drastically-surpass-q4-consensus-apple-reaches-10m-goal?source=yahoo

great news for apple! let's hope that they really reached the mark though

i think this is great as well, the iphone, as steve said, a revolutionary product

wow, thats great. its been extremely successful and definitely a revolutionary product. everybody wants an iphone.

well, i doubt these numbers are accurate. i'll believe it when they announce this

yeah, i look forward to the announcement

i think they have reached 10 million already

i bet they'll sell another million or 2 during this holiday season

at least

so then at macworld, steve will tell us how well they did

yep, so at least we'll find out eventually

that's true. or he could tell us next week if there is a keynote. but that's not looking likely at this point

now that would be sweet

well we might hear about this from steve next week

if it's really happened, then we should

i really think that they have already sold 10 million

maybe steve will tell us next week

i guess we'll find out. i doubt it though

great

yep

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