Eight Million iPhones Manufactured In The Last Year

Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday September 2, 2008 | 404 Views |
Categorized under Apple Inc.


This past Saturday, an iPhone was bought in the Sunnyvale, California Apple store. What made this iPhone special was the IMEI number printed on the back. The number on the back was 01 171400 6049xx x (last 3 digits edited out).

MacObserver and Investor Village takes these IMEI numbers, puts it in a spreadsheet, and deciphers the meaning of them. Using this number, it was discovered that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) manufactured over 5.65 million iPhone 3Gs on top of the 2.4 million first generation iPhones. This makes the number of manufactured iPhones at 8 million in the last year.

Given the current production rate of the iPhone 3G, it is expected that 10 million iPhones will be manufactured by the end of September. This is well ahead of investor expectations.

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1. Fortune



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  1. Eight Million iPhones Manufactured In The Last Year
    September 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThis past Saturday, an iPhone was bought in the Sunnyvale, California Apple store. What made this iPhone special was the IMEI number printed on the back. The number on the back was 01 171400 6049xx x (last 3 digits edited out). MacObserver and Investor Village takes these IMEI numbers, put it in a spreadsheet, and decipher the meaning of them. Using this number, it was discovered that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) manufactured over 5.65 million iPhone 3Gs on top of the 2.4 million first generati [...]

  2. Eight Million iPhones Manufactured In The Last Year
    September 2nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThis past Saturday, an iPhone was bought in the Sunnyvale, California Apple store. What made this iPhone special was the IMEI number printed on the back. The number on the back was 01 171400 6049xx x (last 3 digits edited out). MacObserver and Investor Village takes these IMEI numbers, puts it in a spreadsheet, and deciphers the meaning of them. Using this number, it was discovered that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) manufactured over 5.65 million iPhone 3Gs on top of the 2.4 million first genera [...]

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