A great read from RoughlyDrafted.com concerning the latest noise/link baiting concerning whether 1 million iPhones sold is good or bad for Apple's projected 10 million by 2008. From the article:
"Frommer's idea ignores that same reality by imagining that iPhone sales will schlep along at a linear pace. Had Frommer tried to calculate an "annual run rate" for the iPod based on a portion of third quarter sales at any point over the last half decade, he would never have been close to accurate. That’s because Apple’s iPod sales roughly triple every winter quarter.
In 2002, it sold nearly as many iPods in its winter quarter as it did the first three quarters combined: 219,000
In 2003, it actually sold more iPods in its winter quarter than in the first three combined: 733,000
In 2004, it again sold more iPods in its winter quarter than in the first three: 4,580,000
In 2005, it sold more than 4 million units every quarter, but still sold nearly three times as many in the winter: 14,480,000.
In 2006, it sold more than 8 million units every quarter, and then sold over 21 million in the winter quarter.
In 2007, it has maintained quarterly sales between 10.5 and 9.8 million per quarter."
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