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Analysts: iPhone sales drastically beat Q4 expectations, Apple reaches 10 million iPhone goal
MacDailyNews — ... IMEI registered devices are unsold as of today, an unlikely assumption, it would still put 3G iPhone sales at 7.6 million units and 2008 iPhone sales at over 10 million units," Zaky and Muller report. "Coming into the quarter, Apple had already sold 2.42 million iPhones. Thus, 7.6 million 3G iPhones sold puts Apple above 10 million units for the year." More in the full article, including some well-deserved criticism of so-called analysts Toni Sacconaghi, Kathryn Huberty, and others, here . [Attribution: Fortune. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Jersey_Trader" for the heads ...

Apple manufactures 10M iPhones
The Apple Core — ... . 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 already surpassed analysts estimates and built more than 10 million iPhones. The latest IMEI data collected by AFB was 9,190,680 units created which would put 3G iPhone sales at 7.6 million units and total iPhone sales at over 10 million units . Don’t expect a press release from Apple yet though, these are iPhone manufacturing numbers, not sales numbers. These calculations don’t take into effect Apple and ...

Apple Easily Surpasses 10 Million iPhone Goal
Technologizer — ... . 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 works, I’ll let the report’s author explain it. One 6 digit number, known as the TAC, or Type Allocation Code, signifies a particular build or set of iPhones being manufactured. The second 6 digit number is unique to each individual iPhone produced in that particular series—so that 1 million iPhones can be registered to a specific TAC. Using this data, the Mac Observer team estimates that Apple may have sold as many as 9.2 million iPhone 3Gs: a staggering ...

Has Apple hit the 10 millionth iPhone mark?
CNET News - Apple — ... Has Apple really sold its 10 millionth iPhone? That's what several bloggers are saying. But a closer look suggests that it might be a bit too early to pop open the champagne. ...

More Evidence of Apple's Plans To Deliver A Big iPhone Unit Sales Surprise
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek — ... Posted by: Peter Burrows on October 06 According to the folks at BullishCross , Apple has already surpassed its goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of the year. This is based on their analyses of the 15-digit International Mobile Equipment Identity found on every iPhone. By their reckoning, Apple sold more than seven million this quarter, nearly double the four million most Wall Street analysts expect. If true, it means Apple is three months ahead of schedule in hitting that 10 million mark—those three months being the crucial holiday season when so many consumer ...

Has Apple Sold 10 Million iPhones?
Apple Watch — ... A blog post on Bullish Cross may have contributed to Apple's late-day rally. If so, tomorrow could even be sunnier. Maybe those dark storm clouds hanging over Apple shares will yet lift. Andy M. Zaky and Turley Miller explained how an ...