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Apple: iPhone Kicking Butt, Developers Lovin' The SDK, Unlocking Continues

Submitted by Michael Johnston on April 23, 2008 - 3:43pm.
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Apple announced today during its Q2 conference call that the iPhone is still doing great. During the quarter, a solid 1,703,000 iPhones were sold and Apple still believes that it is on track to sell 10 million iPhones during 2008. Revenues from iPhones, accessories, and carrier revenue sharing, was $378 mil. Apple's CFO Peter Oppenheimer announced that developer reception reception of the iPhone SDK is very good, stating that over 200,000 developers have signed up for the developer program.

Additionally, Apple will be delaying the start of iPhone revenue recognition until the 2.0 software is released. The delay is due to Apple's announcement of new features made on March 6th during the iPhone SDK event.

When asked about iPhone unlocking, Apple's COO Tim Cook acknowledged that a significant number of iPhones are still being purchased for unlocks. Apple's projection of 10 million iPhones sold in 2008 does include sales of iPhones destined for unlocking.

Apple plans to release the iPhone 2.0 software update in late June for all existing iPhone customers. A 3G iPhone has been predicted to be launched at WWDC in June, although Apple has not commented.

Apple didn't say they'd sell 10M in 2008.

Submitted by iphonedev (not verified) on April 25, 2008 - 1:05pm.
Apple actually predicted they'd sell 10M by the end of 2008. That means the 4M they sold in 2007 count against this total. Since it looks like they will sell 10M in 2008, they will be beating their prediction by about %50 or so.