Selling 8 million iPhones
It's a numbers game. But not the numbers you're thinking of.The IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number is on all GSM and UMTS mobile phones, including the iPhone. The enterprising geeks at AFB and Investor Village have been collecting every iPhone IMEI they could get their hands on and adding them to a Google speadsheet.
After performing the voodoo that such a spreadsheet allows, researchers have figured out that Apple has manufactured at least 5,649,000 iPhone 3Gs. Add that to the 2.4 million 1st generation iPhones sold in 2008, and you arrive at 8 million iPhones.
That's a lot of iPhones.
These are unofficial numbers, of course. But if these folks are correct, Apple will reach their goal of 10 million iPhones sold in 2008 with room to spare.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jash Sayani said 10:26AM on 9-02-2008
That gets a handsome amount of revenue to Apple... !!
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Kevin Miller said 10:46AM on 9-02-2008
For you WW2 nerds out there, this is kind of how the Allies calculated the number of German tanks that had been manufactured. They collected the serial numbers off of captured ones and, after realizing they were numbered sequentially, developed a reasonably accurate number for how many total tanks there were.
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Alvin said 10:41AM on 9-02-2008
Sorry, but manufactured != sold.
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a ham sandwich said 3:39PM on 9-02-2008
yeah but "sold out" does.
This is Apples Market Now said 10:43AM on 9-02-2008
iPhones rulzz!
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SpinThis! said 10:50AM on 9-02-2008
Did anyone really believe Apple *wouldn't* sell 10 million by 2008? People from other countries were paying big bucks just to have the first generation with no 3G. Now there's a "native" version in their country—with even more countries being rolled out—and we haven't even hit the holiday season yet. I'm sure we'll get a huge "10 million iPhones sold" announcement from Apple sometime in the next few months.
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Falcom said 2:13PM on 9-02-2008
i doubt it will take longer then a few more weeks honestly. 6-8 weeks max.
Sanjay Lad said 2:42PM on 9-02-2008
Live stats for iPhone
www.iphonemeter.com
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