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Whoo Hoo! I knew Apple could do it!

Suck it, Dvorak. And Enderle, too.

"one Million dollars... uh.... iPhones... Bwaahahaahahahah"

Woah

nice. - now give me an empty trash option, bulk delet emails, and a period on the main keyboard screen.

since you can afford to pay the techs now.

Steve Ballmer must be really upset he was wrong.
Oh wait, he's wrong most of the time.
His claim to fame was landing the best dorm room assignment ever.

iPHONE BITCH!

The crystal ball the ZDNet, and the like, uses is useless.

Now wait a minute......Didn't the other genius say that 1 million phones in less than a week is some kind of crappy sales rate or something? I think the term was that Apple missed its mark.

This is good news for Apple. If they can only miss the mark like this every week of the year.

Just my $0.02

It would be hard to overstate the importance of this news, if true. Also, if it is true, we can expect an official announcement from Apple/AT&T;shortly.

Despite the best efforts of the FUD-mongers, I am impressed by the rarity of reports of serious problems, or disappointments, with the iPhone. If there are a million or more of these puppies out there, the relative lack of complaints is pretty amazing. Also, it helps explain the breakdowns at AT&T;(altho they really should have been better prepared for this).

I am loving my iPhone. If there were any to be had at the local Apple or AT&T;stores, I get another for my business partner.

Other than a few obvious exceptions, it's the most amazing tool I've ever held in my hands

Moritz will be disappointed. Lol

No 3 million sold. So it's a failure, right?

Though this could be true, it is not really a report, it is a RUMOR...

"....This news comes from a full-time staffer in ATT Mobilty’s Commerce Group who chose to remain anonymous."

When an official named source releases this info it can be called a "report," until then this is just a RUMOR.

no news on when restocking at the stores will occur. seems like they should be saying something about this.

If true, that's not the quantity shipped to retailers (hello, Redmond), it's quantity sold, unboxed and activated. There are probably tens of thousands more that are already purchased but not yet activated.

And there are probably another five million more (like me) waiting a few more months until Rev 1 is ready and their current cell phone is closer to death. Gotta love it.

That is so awsome! I'm happy to have been one of the million people to buy an iPhone! It's amazing and makes my old Zune look like a piece of worthless shit. Thank you Apple!

@marko
Steve Ballmer must be really upset he was wrong.
Oh wait, he's wrong most of the time.
His claim to fame was landing the best dorm room assignment ever.

I'm really interested in what you think Ballmar "got wrong"... If I remember correctly he said it "may sell very well"... In another interview, he predicted the iPhone would take 2-3% of the market (which is triple of what Jobs predicted)... I believe he said:

"They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get."

Seems to me that the more phone sold, the more correct Ballmar is and the less correct Jobs is...

But hey, don't let facts get in the way of you blind hate...

I believe Microsoft is now very worried about there future postion. I would be, one million phones and counting. How do tell web designers that Microsoft is your prefered choice? Safari is going to make a change in the industry now!

I still like to the numbers for Safari!!

From my iPhone

^^HAS ANYONE READ WHAT PETE SAID? ^^

Wait for an official announcement before you celebrate, this RUMOR could be completely bogus.

This is history, Apple & Steve .. done it again !

... this link was sent to ballmers box ...I hear. That's ballmer with a little 'b'. ballmer was flat on his back after reading this and wouldn't get up for anybody or anything. All of Redmond has been sending sympathy and encouraging words but ballmer won't get up ..he says he's had the pole shift foretold in the Mayan calendar ...yeah, the 600 dollar pole shift, fully subsidized without a keypad. He's a grown man, you know ...so sad.

Remember this total doesn't include even on of those purcased via the apple store. Therefore if you take into account the numbers for people who are happy to wait a week or two rather than travel to an apple store that number could be 50% or more an understatement of quantities sold.

I must admit that I saw no reason to buy the iphone. Then I went to my local Apple store last Saturday and played with it. It is VERY cool and I bought one. Activation took about 5 minutes and I love it.
I had about 12 people down on my boat over the holiday and everyone not only wanted to see it but also wanted to get one.
Great job Apple and as I said...VERY cool.

Hey Wayno...
Did you see Pogue's typ-a-period shortcut? I tried it and no I can do it without even thinking about it. Pogue’s Awesome iPhone Period-Typing Shortcut

Obviously I am not typing on an iPhone. It never would have let me leave out an "e".

mw=gone.
my "e" is gone. How do they do that?

thanks scooter,... yes, i just caught that a few minutes ago. - nifty

Now where the hell did my "w" go?
MDN: please provide spellcheck. Or send me some better fingers...

mw=received
Hey! I just got my new fingers. Wow, that was fast. How do they do that?

@shoeman
Seems like your lack of insight on this matter is really getting the best of you. First of all, it was the context by which Ballmer said this during the interview. He was as usual his smug, jerky person trying to spew FUDs on this device. Jobs was very clear that the goal was 1% of the 1 billion phones worldwide market (10 million) by END of 2008. One percent. He was not talking of world domination or monopoly. Not like some company we know.

"But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get."

If you carefully look at the numbers he quoted, this is actually not very factual. The Win mobile software is only in about 3-4% of worldwide cellphone market. Not even close to the 60-80% he was talking about. And quickly be taken over by Apple soon from the initial reaction of buyers.

Yeah, blind hate.

Much as I love a contrarian, Shoeman, and I have no blind hate (I'm a Microsoft shareholder--it only proves I can't pick stocks), Ballmer's claim that he would "prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them" is disingenious, to say the least. Microsoft's market share in the category is puny--he might "rather have" the lion's share, but you didn't think hard enough to realize he ain't got it now. I might "rather" shit tiffany cufflinks but that doesn't mean I do.

From Roughly Drafted--a beautiful takedown of Ballmeresque spin:

'Ballmer also said in January that Microsoft has sold “millions and millions and millions” of phones, while Apple hasn’t sold any. In reality, only around 4 million Windows Mobile phones sold in 2006, up from around two million in 2005. Apple says it plans to sell 10 million in 2008, more than twice Microsoft's entire ecosystem of Windows Mobile.'

Ballmer stretches the truth constantly. As a shareholder, I want him fired. If I were a true, hate-blinded fanbois, I'd want him to stay exactly where he is.

Pogue's punctuation tip is fantastic!
I still agree with Wayno that we need an "empty trash option, bulk delet emails" The second is really needed since there is no spam or junk filter option. I get at least 40 junk mails for every legit message. It is a huge chore to delete this crap individually.

plus, unless i'm an idiot, which i probably am,... i can't find a way to keep attachments from downloading. am i missing something?
this can occupy my iphone for an excruciating amount of time

Millions and Millions and Millions and Millions = 4 Million

Balmer and MS have only managed to Sell 4 Million phones with WindowsCE/PalmPC/PocketPC/Windows Mobile/Windows Smart Phone Phones in over a decade of trying.

Steve Jobs and Apple managed to sell 1/4 of what MShas in a weekend.

Finally - Because heaven knows that Apple/ATT almost totally lost it because they didn't sell exactly 1,000,000 phones by the end of the first weekend. Whoa, that was close.

Now back to reality - The iPhone is going to trounce anything even loosley referred to as a "smartphone phone". In fact, without even meaning to it's going to put Palm out of business once and for all, (unless Palm decides to wake up - But even then I don't believe they have the creative umph left to really do anything that would stand in stark contrast to the iPhone). Which reminds me, I wish Apple would in fact do a full fledged PDA.

The iPhone is serious business, literally and figuratively, and not even one week old it has already left a GIANT footprint in the cell phone industry, AND, in the PDA market. Once again
Apple has the Motorola, Samsung, LG, Palm, et.al. "trend setters" crawling out of their collective caves, shaking their collective heads and saying, "what the hell was that"? It must be weird to realize, too late, that you just passed a point where all you will be able to do, from now on, is play catchup.

Does anyone know how to tie a good, strong noose?

"Does anyone know how to tie a good, strong noose?"


Ask your chair.

For those who are interested, Apple has added over $4.5 billion to its market capitalisation since the close on 07/03 (as Americans would have it).

This now puts them within spitting distance of Hewlett-Packard: as I write this, Apple stands at 132.38 and the target price to equal HP is 139.04.

I hope everyone else can see the historic nature of Apple exceeding the value of the company for which the founders offered to work back in the days before Apple even existed.

Personally, I wish I knew where my mentor from the Eighties lives: two-timing fsck got me "downsized" because of my enthusiasm for all things Apple – which was gaining support in the company I worked for - and then told me that the Mac was "dead technology". How times change.

Too bad Apple didn't hit the "super-secret whisper number" of TWO million units in the first week.

Oh wait... the week is not over yet. And those activations don't count online sales that were shipped (sold), but not activated yet.

I think the 1 million rumor is a setup for disappointment. If you calculate the approximate number of iPhones per Apple and ATT store I don't think they came close to 1 million sold. 400-500K is more like it. In addition, if apple really sold 1 million then there would have been a press release, just like they have in the past. Beware of rumors!

max, you didn't understand what you read, did you? Or what Pete wrote.
This has nothing to do with "sales figures" - assuming it's real rather than rumor - as opposed to "proof of use". Remember what MikeK said - units delivered to users, not to retailers. Since you can only (legally) use an iPhone with AT&T;, the number of activations is the number of units in use.
Scooter, in Safari, go to the Edit menu, drop down to the Spelling option, and select Check As I Type. Safari will run your built-in spell-checker for you, underlining words it doesn't understand as you move on. Easy. Honest.

DLMeyer - the Voice of G.L.Horton's Stage Page Pod-Cast

I want to hear it from Apple.

They're probably tallying the numbers and if it's truly 1 million then an announcement is surely in order.

A software update would be a nice P.S.

@dallas
"millions" means at least two of them.
Millions + Millions + Millions + Millions = at least 8 million, not 4.

it says Activations. That means if your ATT store had 200 100 people who didn't get one but paid for one, or if you ordered online then yours hasn't been Activated. They may have actual first week sales in excess of 2 million units!!!!

@ Wayno:

"Other than a few obvious exceptions, it's the most amazing tool I've ever held in my hands"

Well...second most amazing, maybe...

I was doing a little math... adding up gross margins and commissions from the carrier. Then say instead of 10M phones, it's 20M (remember that's world wide). Anyway I see the iphone business with the potential of $6.00 a share in earnings. That's JUST iphone.... that does NOT include the current ipod/mac/music businesses (let along their growth from the halo effect). Add them in and there's $10/share earnings potential. That would be a $200 - $300 stock price people. And it doesn't require any new businesses--just good execution of the ones they're in. No irrational exhuberance or speculative excess either (those can happen and you'd get to keep that extra runup as well).

Alternate scenarios include iphone going the way of ipod--they come out with cheaper models and do even more volume though with smaller margins. And we're still talking about a phone market share in the "beleaguered" mac marketshare range-- waaaaaay achievable.

With the subscription accounting for iphone, the earnings will grow slowly... but they will keep growing... something Wall Street absolutely loves.

Now, c'mon, can't somebody come up with something negative to knock this stock price DOWN... something a little less lame than Barron's off by a factor of 10 math error? I am greedy and will not buy more without a dip.

Dvorak, where art though?

"I was to receive an email from reader Andrew McCallum"

It's not Pogue's tip. The computing industry needs to give credit where it's due.

@MCCFR
Very interesting observation...thanks.

@ChrissyOne
You were right! "Just wait..."

As I sit here typing on this little device, it occurred to me that Ballmer must be (as comic Chuck Booms once said) "shitting and pissing at the same time", in those baggy pants of his. I swore up and down I would wait to buy one. Then I went to an Apple store on Saturday, played with one, looked at the first sales guy on the floor and handed him my credit card. It is the quintessential piece of tech, bar none. So the statistic being reported is probably not too far off. God save Motorola, Palm, RIM and Nokia.

1 Mio iPhone = 250 Mio$ for Apple in revenu !!! Awesome in one week (Ballmer, throws your chairs)

Mactards strike again.

If something isnt true, make it up!


Its July 11th already and still no official sales?