I’m fully willing to admit my bias toward Apple, but perhaps you should go back and read Mortiz’s original article AGAIN. Mortiz claimed that his “whisper number” for the *opening weekend sales* for the iPhone approached 1 million units. This isn’t only an expectation of quantity, but schedule as well.

So when Moritz says “as rapidly” as some had predicted, he is in fact, talking about his own, worthless prediction. He spread the rumor that Apple would ship 1 million iPhones in the first weekend, something that no one at Apple, or even Wall St., ever claimed, and yet he bashes Apple for failing to meet this fake expectation that HE invented.

In associated news, Apple did in fact, just sell their 1 millionth iPhone on Sept. 9th. It only took 74 days to accomplish this amazing feat. In comparison it took Apple TWO YEARS to ship 1 million of the original iPods.

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/10/1-millionth-iphone-has-been-sold/

Lastly, PLEASE tell me why Apple would lower the price of the iPhone if they were on track to sell a million units in a little over two months? Is 74 days not fast enough for you? The time frame, by all accounts, is historic in nature so it makes no sense for Apple to drop the price because sales are “sluggish” because they obviously were not. They dropped the price in an aggressive move to stay ahead of the holiday buying season and because of the great success they’ve had in the initial launch. Wall Street has said as much (see my link above) and I happen to agree with them.

he never said more. a direct snippet of the quote you posted reads, “…may not be selling as rapidly as some optimists had expected.” may not be selling AS RAPIDLY, he never says is not selling MORE than were expected.

“I hate to break the news to you Marek, but there are plenty of examples of similar price slashing, and one even comes from the cell phone industry.”

two months is not six months. especially when, in your own words, “…it’s simply because the iPhone was ten times more anticipated (and sold ten times better) than the Razr.,” if that’s the case, according to your logic, apple WOULDN’T lower the price. simple business economics dictates that when demand is high and a product is selling, in your words, ten times better than expected, you keep prices high.

it’s okay to love apple but try to curb the rabid fanaticism and stick to facts, when portraying comments as fact, instead of impassioned opinion.