Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:45
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Although Apple aims to have 70 countries selling the iPhone 3G by the
end of 2008, only 22 sell them so far. Now comes news that Apple will
start selling the iPhone 3G in 20 more countries from August the 22nd –
get ready for more iPhone mania!
An article in Macworld US has details from Apple’s quarterly conference call, and while that call listed all kinds of information, one thing that stood out was a specific date that more countries will get the iPhone 3G at last.
Give the fact the iPhone 3G is in short supply, with Apple either accidentally (or perhaps purposefully) not having enough iPhone 3G’s to hand, analysts asked about this issue.
Macworld quotes Apple’s CFO Tim Cook as saying: “I like what I’m seeing in the production ramp.”
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer is quoted as saying that Apple “expects to sell more iPhones in the quarter ending September 30 than in any quarter since the phone’s June 2007 launch."
Apple’s goal of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008 was also re-stated, and given the number of countries that will get it by year’s end, and Oppenheimer’s prediction, it seems certain they’ll do it.
Now, although we know that 22 more countries will get the iPhone 3G soon, Apple has not said which countries those will be!
What we’re also likely to see in the not too distant future is a more stable version of the iPhone OS 2.0.
Currently the OS is buggy, as any user of an iPhone 3G or an original iPhone or iPod Touch user who has upgraded to the 2.0 OS version.
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