Apple has hit 10 mil mark for iPhone 3G

Data suggests Apple has cruised past 10 million iPhone goal
AppleInsider — ... [ spreadsheet ] from new 3G iPhones sold during the period, and have been maintaining a spreadsheet of iPhone IMEI data points along with the purchase date, model, and production week. By early September, Apple was on its eighth TAC, meaning that 8 million 3G iPhones had already been manufactured. The actual number of handsets sold versus manufactured depends on a variety of factors including the amount of inventory Apple carries in its retail chain, defects that were destroyed, defects that were sold and then exchanged, display models etc. However, the latest IMEI data ...

iPhone 3G Snags 17% US Smartphone Market, Apple Already Sold 10M iPhones
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... (spreadsheet) for a while now. The group has been maintaining a spreadsheet of iPhone IMEI data points as well as the purchase date, model, and production week. ...

Apple manufactures 10M iPhones
The Apple Core — ... board have been collecting iPhone IMEI numbers and recording them on a big Google speadsheet . Based on the collected IMEI’s, Apple was on a pace to build its 10 millionth iPhone before the end of September. Right on schedule, it appears that Apple has ...

Apple Easily Surpasses 10 Million iPhone Goal
Technologizer — When Apple first made its lofty projections to sell 10 million iPhones during 2008, some thought the company’s projections were overly optimistic. That may not be the case anymore if research by Apple enthusiast site Mac Observer is to be believed. The data compiled by the site’s “Apple Finance Board” have taken a look at the IMEI numbers of shipped iPhone 3Gs as a way to estimate the total number of iPhone 3Gs shipped and compiled them into a spreadsheet . IMEI’s are issued in an specific order and can be used to figure out how many phones have been produced. As to how this ...

Rumor: Apple has sold over 10 million iPhones
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... TMO's Apple Finance Board has been tracking International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers for new iPhone 3Gs since late June when shipments first began. This spreadsheet shows the estimated number of iPhone 3Gs produced and shipped, with the latest figures for the period ending 10/5/08 at 9,190,680. Conservatively estimating that 1.5 million iPhone 3Gs are either still in inventory, were destroyed, returned, or otherwise unsold, the remaining number of about 7.7 million 3Gs added to the known 2.42 million iPhones that had been sold prior to this time ...

Has Apple Sold 10 Million iPhones?
Apple Watch — ... 6 digit number is unique to each individual iPhone produced in that particular seriesso that 1 million iPhones can be registered to a specific TAC. In other words, one six digit code, known as the TAC, signifies a set of iPhones being produced whereas the other six digit code signifies each individual iPhone within the TAC set. Members at the Apple Finance Board at Mac Observer have been collecting IMEI numbers from new 3G iPhones sold during the period, and have been maintaining a spreadsheet of iPhone IMEI data points along with the purchase date, model, and production ...

Are Reports of iPhone Production Cuts Correct?
Cult of Mac — ... Zaky said he prefers to rely on IMEI data to make any conclusions on Apple production. The IMEI figures are part of a database by MacObserver forum readers that tracks iPhone serial numbers of iPhones built. ...

Apple Q1 2009 earnings preview
AppleInsider — ... or numbering system used by Apple. At the end of November, IMEI data suggested that Apple had produced its 15 millionth 3G iPhone ( spreadsheet ). Yet, no data is available for the month of December so a lot guess work has to go into how might have happened in December. Since its debut Apple has produced, on average, about 3 million iPhones per month. If one conservatively assumes that Apple produced only 1 million iPhones in December (only 33% of the normal rate), that would put Apple at a total of 16 million 3G iPhones produced. If one subtracts the 3G iPhones Apple ...