[Jeff @ Apr 25th 2007 5:56PM]

A million and then sales will fall through the floor. It's an early adopter/Apple fanboy type device. Once regular people see how impractical it is as a phone, how it's not as good of a music player as a real iPod, not as good a phone as a real phone, how it suffers all the same convergence problems as other convergence devices, how it costs way too much money and does less than a lot of comparable products, sales are going to collapse.

Not everything Apple does turns to gold.

[bleeka @ Apr 26th 2007 9:55AM]

This is from a thread about the iPod - from 2001, whne it was introduced
"All that hype for an MP3 player? Break-thru digital device? The Reality Distiortion Field™ is starting to warp Steve's mind if he thinks for one second that this thing is gonna take off."

That wasn't you by any chance, was it nostradamus? They said the same about the Macintosh, and the iMac 13 years later (that was going to fail because it did not have a floppy drive & usb ports!)
The iPhone will sell a million units in its first year. And it will continue to sell because Apple does not sit still - it will improve the iPhone over a short time - take a look at the iPod's short history. I think that a lot of people on wall street see that too. Anyone want to take bets on the million in one year prediciton?

[robmoff2 @ Apr 26th 2007 4:19PM]

jeff,
I know multipurpose gadgets have had problems for years, but let's not forget who we're talking about here. If anyone can pull off a miracle in this convergent device market it is the design team at apple. Granted I'm a fanboy and maybe even a zealot but I have come to expect near perfection from the boys of Infinite Loop.