[Swordmaker]

What the FUD? Not one analyst I saw in the lead up to the iPhone's release predicted 1,000,000 sales in the first weekend.

[Swordmaker]

This is absurd... TheStreet.com claims Apple missed the iPhone's sales targets... PING!

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[Spktyr]

Except that there have probably been more than 1.2 million sold already...

[Swordmaker]

The article continues:

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Had Apple sold out of the iPhone on its debut, thirst for the phone would be seen as unquenched and potentially unknowable, say observers. But since only about three-quarters of the magical allotment were sold, "We now know that demand was less than a million," says Entner. Based on the early sales estimates, analysts predict that AT&T could take about 2.6 million customers from its rivals. But that assumption is built on current demand, which could be unsustainable.

All the hoopla around the iPhone's launch and the well-staged sales kick off helped create a lot of pent-up demand.

"What we saw the first day were the diehards who wanted the phone, no matter what," says Entner. "Now we have the rational buyers. And these people are looking much harder to see if the phone is worth $600."

[SamAdams76]

Damn, it looks like Apple is finally going to go bankrupt. Well, at least Steve Jobs still has that Pixar gig to fall back on.

[BunnySlippers]

thestreet.com is a blog and a not very good one at that. And [someone mentioned Cramer] ... he’s wild for Apple and iPhone from what I can see.

[magellan]

Note everyone wants to spend $600 for a 8GB iPod, even if it includes a phone. Especially after dropping $300 on an 80GB iPod.

I mean, 4GB and 8GB flash MP3 players are supposed to be compact, and large devices like the iPhone are supposed to have 30GB, 60GB, or even 80GB of space.

As an Internet device, it might be okay if it had a 3G connection and a slide-out keyboard. Given the sludge that one gets on a Treo or Blackberry just by talking on the phone, I cannot imaging what kind of slime the screen of the iPhone is going to pick up as both a phone, keyboard, and mousepad.

Give the iPhone an EV-DO or HSDPA data connection, and a hard drive, and I may bite. But not an 8GB GPRS/EDGE device.

[tubebender]

For those of you that want to build your own iPhone... PARTS LIST FOR iPHONE

[furquhart]

It’s particularly idiotic, given that every single iPhone that’s been offered for sale has been sold and, based on what I’m reading, will continue to be for at least several months.

[Star Traveler]

Yep, I never heard or read about that number. This is the first time I ever heard of it.

I thought 250,000 was good. Then I heard 500,000 and I thought that was even better. Then I read in USA Today about it being maybe 700,000 and I thought that was fantastic. But, someone comes along and says, “But..., it was supposed to be one million!” — yeah sure... LOL...

[Star Traveler]

Today I read in an article that an internal AT&T memo says there have been one million iPhone activations!!

[Star Traveler]

The link to the article is —

http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/mobile-computing/pdas/news/iphone-selling-out-fast-shortage-fears?articleid=146157845