One Apple follower is putting a guess on the number of iPhone 3Gs Apple will have sold during the current quarter: 5 million.
We already know that Apple sold 1 million iPhone 3Gs in the first weekend it went on sale around the world, and Piper Jaffray believes the company has added another 4 million units to that total since then, according to a research note released Monday. Apple will reveal the formal totals in about a month when it reports earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter.
Despite several launch day glitches and widespread bugs in the iPhone�s 2.0 software, enthusiasm for the phone seems high. The other big factor this time around, as compared to the iPhone�s early days, is the huge increase in the number of countries that are now officially selling the iPhone.
The main number to watch is 10 million: that�s the number of iPhones Apple has consistently said is its target for 2008. That number appears easily within reach if the 5 million estimate is accurate: Apple sold around 2.5 million iPhones during the first six months of 2008 as it ran out of the original model.
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