Iphone sales are at around a tenth of early estimates
Update
The INQ may have been playing with sales figures but someone (cough!) may also
have been bamboozled by zeros. Any fule with a calculator knows that
4,000,000/200=20,000. Our apologies, dear reader.
THE INQ has been playing with sales figures for the Iphone and it would appear that they're dropping off real fast. They seem to have fallen to a tenth of what pundits were quoting.
Observers took the total of 4 million units in 200 days quoted by St Jobs of Cupertino and came up with a figure of 200,000 units a day.
The company has just said it sold 2,315,000 units in Q4 2007. That looks good because it sold almost half that number in Q3 - 1,119,000. But if you think about it, Apple increased the number of its markets from one to four in Q4.
So in theory it should have sold 4 million in Q4 alone. Now we get to the interesting bit. The company gave a cumulative total of 1,389,000 to the end of Q3. If you add in Q4's figure, you get 3,704,000.
So we've got a missing 296,000. Let's say there's 14 days between 30th December 2007 and the 200th day.
That's a mere 21,142 units a day. Nothing near the 200,000 units figure which everybody was banding about.
And as the INQ has said before, Q4 is always a brilliant month for phone sales because of the Xmas period.
No wonder Apple's stock is being punished. ยต
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Are you blind or just ignorant...?

Apple, during the keynote, stated clearly that they sold an average of 20.000 iPhones per day. 

The 200.000 figure must be coming out of your thumb...

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4 millions units over 200 days makes it 20,000 units a day, not 200,000.
So the latest sales (21,142) are actually better than the average!
Come on Tony, 4 million divided by 200 is 20,000 not 200,000...

Go to the back of the Arithmetic class!

;-)
So 4,000,000 / 200 = 200,000 now does it?
4.10e6 in 200 days is 20.000 a day for a start!
2008 or 366 days x 20K = 7,32.10e6 + 4.10e6 = 11,32.10e6 or Apples goal reached.

You cannot compare the USA market (250.000.000) with Germany, the UK, France, and just consider it as the existing market multiplied by 4. Too stupid to be true...

Raping figures must be your hobby?
The number from the Jobsnote was 20,000, which is 4 million divided by 200. I suggest you recheck your arithmetic!
It's iPhone, not Iphone. You'd think a technology blog would be able to get the product name right. Then again, they can't even do simple math, so how can we expect them to wrap their heads around such complex capitalization?

[Proper nouns have capital letters, all else is marketing. We not in the marketing business. Ed]
Well, I'm glad that you aren't silently deleting embarrassing articles anymore.
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Tony, really?