Browsing the BBC’s news this morning I came across this article about the MacBook Air, Apple’s new ultra-thin laptop (sorry I think I’ll stick to my Asus EEE PC at 20% of the price), hidden away at the end of the article however was the news that:
Apple announced it had sold four million iPhones in the first 200 days on sale
Not bad, if they can maintain that rate of 20,000 per day they’ll sell a further 7 million by the end of 2008 and have sold a little over 11 million in total and claimed 1% of the mobile phone market.
I wonder if the analyst from Universal McCann who said that Apple would struggle to sell 10 million iPhones is feeling a little silly?
If you’re responsible for launching consumer products I hope you’re looking carefully at what Apple does, you might just learn something valuable.
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It said in one paper that they’d banned any sales figures from being released with the theory being that they’re not doing as well as expected.
Do you have a link to the article?
Looks like it was in the Mail on Sunday. This http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets/article.html?in_article_id=429336&in_page_id=3 says about it.