iPhone Sales Stunted? No, Apple Can Still Hit 10mm

apple is the best and its stock will be pushing $200 by July. I know things.

I think he is heavily shorting Apple or bought a lot of put options for Apple. He want to make others to believe what he wrote and make a huge profit.

u have to love how the mac boys come out in droves for every negative Apple story true or not they say it's BS. Anyway I don't think Apple will sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. Last report I saw puts their sales at about 1 million a qtr. I agree with this because who wants to pay $400 for a phone. U can say internet browsing but I wasn't that impressed by the iphones browsing capabilities (especially with no flash support). I'm not saying the iPhone is a bad product just not worth $400. If the next version has flash support, 3G, lets you use the side option for things other then browsing (who thought of having only for browsing anyway!!!), and improves the on screen keyboard it will be worth $400. That said I don’t think the razr 2 is worth $250 either but ppl are paying it so who knows.

u have to love how the mac boys come out in droves for every negative Apple story true or not they say it's BS. Anyway I don't think Apple will sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. Last report I saw puts their sales at about 1 million a qtr. I agree with this because who wants to pay $400 for a phone. U can say internet browsing but I wasn't that impressed by the iphones browsing capabilities (especially with no flash support). I'm not saying the iPhone is a bad product just not worth $400. If the next version has flash support, 3G, lets you use the side option for things other then browsing (who thought of having only for browsing anyway!!!), and improves the on screen keyboard it will be worth $400. That said I don’t think the razr 2 is worth $250 either but ppl are paying it so who knows.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

I've never seen a stock with this kind of a growth story get so pummeled by analysts. They must either be shorting, or buying on the dips they cause. If you do a little simple math, should Apple merely sell 5 million phones that are unlocked and activated in the year, and 8 million phones for an average of $400, they will raise a total of $4 billion incremental dollars for their approximately $24 billion (pre-iPhone business). This is because they made $0 the year before on iPhone. That's 16% incremental Y-O-Y growth for one product line, based on my estimates, which are below even Wall Street's most pessimistic. That also does not include growth in iPods, which is increasing bottom-line more than top-line, and Macs, which everyone knows are rising to take more and more of Windows market share, and are enough, alone, to merit a $200 price for the stock today. At below $150, this stock is a huge value. At below $120, it's a license to print money. Do what you want, analysts, who downgrade a stock priced at $120 and give a price target of $190, but I'm buying, and holding, and telling all of my friends to do the same.

New products / ideas will spur the iPhone sales ..... My tech guy had one today and I asked ... "How do you like it" - answer "I LOVE IT .... Don't know what I did without it"

It's about time some one wrote an article based on reason and not AAPL bashing like the Savitz's & Eli's of this world. I have never seen a stock picked apart as much as AAPL has been. Can you Imagine going to the toilet, and as soon as you flush a hand reaches in and grabs your toilet paper to check on you health. Maybe Jobs could save Barron's some trouble, and just mail his used toilet paper to them. Jack Plasky

I agree with Joe. If you go back and look at what Steve Jobs promised back in Macworld 2007 and Macworld 2008, he indicated they would sell 10 million units of the iPhone by the conclusion of 2008, not IN 2008. That means he gave them 18 months (from June 2007 through December 2008) to meet the goal. As of January 2008, they only need another 6 million sales, which should be quite doable, as they will only have to manage 500,000 units per month for the rest of the year.

Apple is and will be a great company for the forseeable future. PERIOD!