Analyst: Walmart will sell 4.5 million iPhones in 2009

Wallmart? Selling the iPhone? Contemptible.

also, im very intrigued that the iphone and ipod touch in becoming a gaming device....

http://buzznewsroom.com/tech/game-on-apple-challenges-sony-and-nintendo/

Gene Munster thinks Apple can sell 45 million iPhones next year. He must be taking into account that there will be some new $50 iPhone for sale. I'd have to say selling a $199 iPhone in that quantity would be nigh impossible. Apple will be lucky to sell 24 million (6 million per quarter).

Well, GM is the dude that has a $230 price target on a $98 stock. He sees Apple's value as no other investor can see it. The iPhone in China is unlikely to reap huge sales so I don't know where he's getting all these people buying iPhones next year.

@ Allan L.:

My mistake. And yes, I DO read the posts.

I must have subconsciously removed the word "Wal-Mart from the headline, I guess.

Thank you for pointing out my error in such a condescending fashion.

unless Chicago has suddenly gotten A LOT bigger, I'd say the 4.5 is the accurate number, not the 45 million....

By the way... shouldn't your headline say 45 million instead of 4.5 million?

I like this guys optimism, and I hope that the iPhone continues to sell well, but if our "leaders" don't get things turned around and we continue to have 500,000 workers losing their jobs every month, most Americans will be jobless (and possibly homeless) by March, and probably won't be able to justify the iPhone's Apple-y goodness.

Typo in your post:

"..Apple sell a whopping 45 million iPhones next year, but a tenth .."

45 million would do Apple good wouldn't it :P

Is the iPhone going to be cheap? So what if it's cheap. There's a limited pool of people that can pay those service fees.

Well, it was nice being the only one out of 20 of my friends to have an iPhone. Gone will be those days. Thanks Walmart. Apple, give me something else.