iPhone sales “top eight million”

Posted on 2 Sep 2008 at 10:34

Apple is ahead of schedule to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008, according to data gathered from its users.

A joint project by The Mac Observer’s Apple Finance Board and Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity asks iPhone buyers to submit the handset’s unique IMEI identification code which it then gathers into a spreadsheet.

This tracking of IMEI numbers enables them to estimate how many phones have been sold and at the end of August that topped 5,649,000. Add to that the 2.4 million first-generation handsets Apple has reported selling, and total sales are already in excess of eight million, with four months and the key end-of-year shopping season to come. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs’ stated target of 10 million is easily within reach.

Indeed, if reports that Foxconn, Apple’s iPhone manufacturer, is making 800,000 units each week are accurate, then the 10 million figure may be reached before the end of September.

Author: Simon Aughton

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