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IMEI Tracking Voodoo = 8 Million iPhones Sold?

By , Thursday, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:55 pm
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10 Million iPhone March

Following on yesterday's Net Applications MobileSafari metrics, which showed ever increasing iPhone browser share, TUAW now tells us Investor Village has found yet another obscure path to sales deviation. This method involves tracking the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) code on each individual iPhone sold, and using it:

researchers have figured out that Apple has manufactured at least 5,649,000 iPhone 3Gs. Add that to the 2.4 million 1st generation iPhones sold in 2008, and you arrive at 8 million iPhones.

Now, we're admittedly as mathlexic as Fake Steve himself, and we're still not entirely convinced this isn't tea leaf reading of one sort or another, but we'll likely know for sure come September 9th "Let's Rock" event.

Apple promised us 10 million sold in 2008 , and with the holiday season still coming, looks like they may not just make those numbers, but break them.

Rene Ritchie

Editor-in-Chief of iMore, Executive Producer at Mobile Nations, co-host of Iterate and ZEN and TECH, cook, grappler, photon wrangler.

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  1. mobile home parts store says:

    Boy, talk about anti-Apple-fan-boys out there... You didn't read the article did you?

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