seems that the article didn’t help. ... here is hoping that it will not do any damage if the conclusions drawn prove to be overly optimistic.

now we probably just need to let go and watch the whole monster unwind.

[quote author=“korky”]seems that the article didn’t help. ... here is hoping that it will not do any damage if the conclusions drawn prove to be overly optimistic.

now we probably just need to let go and watch the whole monster unwind.

I would actually argue we would probably have been down more sooner than if it had not been as widely distributed. Hats off to all involved.

[quote author=“deagol”]superbaka, I’ve been taking care of the updates for the last couple of weeks. Thanks for your submission, and thanks to everyone else who’ve submitted their IMEIs.

Deagol, I had no idea you were involved in helping maintain the spreadsheet - my thanks for contributing to the effort.

I have two IMEIs from iPhone purchases last week to add to the mix. I’ll get the numbers momentarily. I do believe the market is in for a surprise when the unit sales numbers are announced.

For one, there’s no valid method with so many points of purchase globally for analysts to have any kind of clue without much effort. However, we are providing the financial world with a key piece in the iPhone sales number puzzle.

Thank you to everyone working on this project.

[quote author=“artman1033”]AFB members now called:

a wonky Apple investor project

HERE

Oh the irony in being called “wonky” by Dan Frommer… we’ve a word in England we use to describe people like him which also starts with a w… 

We’ll see who is wonky in the next couple of weeks Dan.

I have to make a major apology here.  I had no idea that another board was working on this otherwise I would have given the credit.  Can you guys let me know exactly who is owed credit so I could edit the article to give credit where credit is due?  I will also get Appleinsider, Fortune and Seeking Alpha to edit their articles as well.

Ok.  I edited my blog to give credit to howlongtoretire.  Can you check it out and let me know whether I’m being unfair to someone who I might have left out?  Thanks. 

http://bullcross.blogspot.com/2008/10/iphone-sales-drastically-surpass-q4.html

If its edited correctly, I’ll make sure that other publishers picking up the story edits their articles to give credit.

Looks good Andy. You might also include a link to the Sanity board page here:
http://www1.investorvillage.com/groups.asp?mb=13977&pt=m
(non members can apply from there)

Perhaps something like, “and Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity Board member howlongtoretire ” ?

Thanks again for your great efforts Andy. Can’t wait to see how close we got to the real figure!

[quote author=“deagol”]Looks good Andy. You might also include a link to the Sanity board page here:
http://www1.investorvillage.com/groups.asp?mb=13977&pt=m
(non members can apply from there)

Perhaps something like, “and Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity Board member howlongtoretire ” ?

Thanks again for your great efforts Andy. Can’t wait to see how close we got to the real figure!

I revised the post on my site too- to give credit http://financial-alchemist.blogspot.com/2008/10/apple-to-surpass-its-iphone-sales-goal.html