Three million iPhone 3Gs sold in first month

I had fun reading those first few posters... Oh well, for sure Jobs is very jovial right now after the success launch of his new tech toy the iPhone 3G. Actually, I remember watching this video entitled Steve Jobs & Apple's iPhone 3G as he unveil the new iPhone 3G in http://clashorama.com/index.php?id=178

beats the poop out of Dark Night ticket sales!

Huh?

"It took over 10 weeks for the original iPhone to sell just one million handsets. The iPhone 3G accounts for almost a third of all iPhones sold, ever."

So, by those numbers you think that only three million phones have been sold, ever?

Nuts!

As an Apple fan, I think it would be great if those figures are true.

I agree with the first poster, that the title is inaccurate and misleading.

It reduces the credibility of the author.

I would prefer "Portillo's Face Felt Like Guts, Says Girl".

And once it hits Vermont, it will be 3 million and 4!

The title is misleading. The sales figures are an analyst's estimate as is clearly indicated in the title of the Fortune source article. Better to have copied the title in whole as opposed to dropping one (arguably most significant) word.

BTE Neil, you mentioned that 'if TUAW was to use every analyst's word as gospel (as has been done here) then there should have been posts with titles like "10% of iPhones sold to unlockers"'. There has been a post on TUAW with, if not that identical title, then one very similar.

There are companies out there that have a vested interest in the failure of the iPhone. I am convinced that some of them are encouraging employees to come on these blogs and post their FUD. Any hard news of the success of Apple and the iPhone is met with comments like our first poster.
Sorry, the iPhone is doing well.
Also, it does not need to be jailbroken in order to be successful. Some of you need to get over that as well.

@ Palmer,

I think Neil is being an asshat here, but he may be wanting a question mark at the end or an "Analyst predicts..." at the beginning since it's still just an assumed value by one person. However, the title isn't nearly as hyperbolic as most Apple-related articles and clearly states the relative details in the body so I wouldn't change a thing.

It's 11th August, it was released on 11th July, and in that time they've sold 3 million.

"Three million iPhone 3Gs sold in first month" sounds like a pretty succinct way of putting it, I should think.