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NYTimes Speculates On the Next iPhone

Posted by timothy on from the made-entirely-of-raisins-and-sulphur dept.

Achromatic1978 writes "The NYT has a story on the next revision of the iPhone, and discusses what will become of the iPhone, now that the hype is starting to slow (Jobs goal for 2008 was ten million iPhones sold — as of the first quarter, only 1.7 million have left the shelves). The WWDC is the rumored release date for a next version, and Jobs has promised that this year will see a 3G iPhone released."

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  1. Round it up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    1.7 million x 4 = 6.8 million in 2008. Maybe Jobs meant to round up to the nearest 10 million...

    1. Re:Round it up! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

      1.7 million x 4 = 6.8 million in 2008. Maybe Jobs meant to round up to the nearest 10 million...
      The rounding error is probably just a result of Apple's switch to Intel.
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    2. Re:Round it up! by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, it's on a Blog, it must be true.
      I note they didn't give any Apple reference, on another Blog that says the same thing.
      Whoop - Dee- Doo.

      Well, Apple told me they meant 2007 and 2008. If you don't believe, just refer to this post.

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  2. How to get to 10M in 2008: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jobs: "We'll just release 4 more versions of the iPhone this year and the same 1.7M painfully hip people will have no choice but to buy them, each time!"

  3. Let's get this outa the way... by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Wireless. About as much space as a nomad. Still Lame?"
    - Steve Jobs, wondering if we're finally satisfied.

  4. Summary by whisper_jeff · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here, let me summarize the article for those not willing to read it: "We know the new iPhone is coming and it will have new features but we don't know what they are beyond 3G but we'll speculate to expand our word count so this is an actual article rather than a short sentence."

    1. Re:Summary by krzy123 · · Score: 3, Funny

      So it's pretty much like all their other articles.

  5. Re:Jobs goal for 2008 was ten million iPhones sold by nomadic · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, short sell Apple because they will not perform up-to expectations? Or will Jobs pull one of his a** and somehow sell another 9 million units?

    Don't underestimate Steve Jobs, you're talking about the mastermind who after 30 years has managed to dominate an entire 3% of the computer market.

  6. Apple's stated iPhone sales goals by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, stop confusing people with the facts! How do you expect them to start up a decent Apple hating flame war?

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  7. Re:In a recession here.. by Gat0r30y · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey, its gonna do just fine till the sex robots from japan get here.

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