Comments on: Why Selling “Only” 8 Million iPhones Won’t Be a Big Deal

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Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:37:59 +0000

[...] a lower priced iPhone Apple should have no problem meeting its goal of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008. I honestly believe they are going to reach that goal [...]

By: Will Apple cave to mobile operators pressure; iPhone selling for $200 or less? | The Apple Blog

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:02:04 +0000

[...] a lower priced iPhone Apple should have no problem meeting its goal of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008. I honestly believe they are going to reach that goal [...]

By: Constable Odo

Constable Odo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:08:00 +0000

I meant to type 600 to 700 million potential iPhone subscribers. I think there’s only about 9 billion people on the planet. Now if Apple could just get 1% of humanity to buy iPhones…..

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:12:05 +0000

I love Apple products and have been around them since I was really young. I know 100 percent that Apple will sell 10 million iphones this year, and I cannot wait to laugh in the faces of those PC users who want Apple to fail like you said. I am upset over the fact that I do not have Cingular, and I am a current virizon wireless customer. I would love to see Apple release the iphone for Virizon or I am just going to have to wait even longer for my plan to expire.

By: Constable Odo

Constable Odo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:59:02 +0000

No way Apple is going to fall short of 10 million iPhone sales. Look for about 12 million. 70 countries this year versus 4 countries last year. Those 70 countries have around 600 to 700 billion potential iPhone subscribers. The older iPhone will be less expensive and possibly subsidized. The 3G iPhone will be faster (still hoping for true GPS) and has the great potential of corporate use and use as a gaming device. I have no doubts that Apple will blow away the 10 million iPhones sold mark.

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:04:38 +0000

10 million? Cake!

By: Jean-Christophe Helary

Jean-Christophe Helary — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:59:50 +0000

I think they’ll be closer to 15 millions at MacWorld 2009.
Especially with the Japanese market opening.

By: Bunyip

Bunyip — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:37:27 +0000

Who the hell is this Steve Krakow guy? It’ looks like they dragged some wino out of the gutter and asked him his opinion.
Lordy, even my mum knows that Jobs would NEVER license another OS. Why, when in every atom of his being he believes, and pretty much rightly so, that OSX is the far better OS.
Oh, yeah, and the fact that Apple made a pretty public announcement that they’re addressing most of the business user’s issues anyway.
Here’s a bottle of Ol’ Harper, Krakow, now back to your trashcan!

By: steve

steve — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:31:45 +0000

i believe apple will breeze through the 10 million unit mark. india alone with their 250,000 retail outlets will need 1 million plus phones. thats 4 per store.

not only that, i estimate 50% of these phones sold will download and pay for an app from the ‘Appstore’ resulting in incremental revenue that other phone manufacturers do not earn.

only 4 days to go boys and girls ;-)

By: Alex Moyler

Alex Moyler — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:48:11 +0000

I just think that, as you said, they’re going by the old OS’s current options- not the v2 with Exchange server etc. which is pretty much the only staple thing that is needed for a Corporate smartphone. Sure things like the Windows Mobile Word and Excel editors might be useful but in all seriousness, with the size and weight of small laptops these days who wants to use a 2.5″ screen to do those sort of things?
Also, I don’t know about anyone else, but for your standard blackberry anyone with small hands is not going to have fun. I have pretty big hands but I still find the average blackberry too wide to hold comfortably.