UK iPhone

According to CNET Apple has ordered 24 million units of the new 4G iPhone, to be delivered by the end of the year, which seems a little hard to credit, given that they have only sold about 50 million iPhones to date. But Apple did sell nearly 9 million iPhones in its most recent reported quarter. By the time of the expected next-gen iPhone launch in June there will be only about six selling months left in the year. If Apple expects to grow sales by a modest amount in those two remaining quarters, it could be looking at 10 million per quarter, or a total of 20 million.

But the last quarter, of course, includes Christmas, so you’d expect a few more sales for that. Therefore 24 million does not seem as unreasonable as it might at first glance.