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RWW Predictions: iPhone Sales in 2008
This week's prediction is about (what else) the iPhone. We're asking: How many total units of the iPhone will Apple sell in 2008?.
For background, Apple sold 2.3 million units in Q1 2008 and 1.7 million units in Q2 2008. Today Apple announced it's already sold 1 million 3G units. In 2007 Steve Jobs said he expected 10 million unit sales in 2008.
The new 3G is twice as fast, available all over the world, and (for some people anyway) half the price at $199. So Jobs' 2007 estimate may even be conservative. What do you think - how many iPhones will Apple sell in '08? Click here to make your prediction.
UPDATE: Apple today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday, only three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. Here is the rest of its announcement:
iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries--Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US--and will go on sale in France on July 17.
"iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world."
See also: Apple's App Store: 10 Million Downloads Later; and iPhone: The New Personal Computer
Results: RWW Predictions & Polls (FriendFeed, Bigcos, Google Docs)
This week we announced a new feature for our community: ReadWriteWeb Predictions, a Predictions Center that we hope will enable you to tap into the collective intelligence of RWW readers. The first prediction is about the battle for users and mind-share that has emerged this year between Twitter and FriendFeed. Here are the results, along with results for our two polls this week...
In RWW Predictions, we asked: How many monthly U.S. visitors will FriendFeed have for July 2008 according to Compete? As of writing, 400-599k is the most popular prediction. Here are the results so far:
You can make your own prediction here.
Poll: Best Internet Bigcos of 2008
We've reached the halfway point of 2008, so time for a half-year assessment of the Internet bigcos. This week we ran a poll asking for your picks for best bigcos so far in '08. We did a similar poll last July - and Facebook just edged out Google for the RWW popular vote. At the end of '07 we named Facebook our Bigco of the year. We also ran the poll in 2006. Here are the results this time round:
Which Internet bigco has impressed you the most over the first half of 2008?
( polls)
At time of publishing, Google had 19%, followed by Apple on 18% and Mozilla 17%. Also in double figures were Amazon and Adobe, both of which got 12%. Interestingly, Facebook fell to 8% and the other two parts of GYM, Microsoft and Yahoo, didn't fare so well either. Microsoft scored 6% and Yahoo 5%.
See also: Internet Bigcos - How The Market Sees Them and It's Official: There Is No Bubble
Google Docs Goes Down - How Long is Too Long for You? (POLL)
Earlier this week, Google's hosted office suite Google Docs was down for more than 30 minutes, rendering documents inaccessible and users frustrated. Short outages are not uncommon, but it was a good time to ask - how long is too long for you? At what point would you personally deem a web service too unstable to use, and presuming that varies from service to service, what's your requirement for Google Docs?
How much down time would it take for you to quit using Google Docs?
( polls)
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ReadWriteWeb Predictions: Twitter vs FriendFeed
Today we're announcing a new feature for our community: ReadWriteWeb Predictions, a Predictions Center powered by Predictify. We hope it will enable you to tap into the collective intelligence of RWW readers, to assess web technology trends and keep one step ahead of the news.
The first prediction is about the battle for users and mind-share that has emerged this year between Twitter and FriendFeed.
Some early adopters of Twitter have migrated to FriendFeed due to Twitter's outages. However, as of May 2008, Compete counts only 304,574 monthly U.S. visitors for FriendFeed versus 1.725 million for Twitter. So we're asking:
How many monthly U.S. visitors will FriendFeed have for July 2008 according to Compete?
What do you think? Make your prediction and check out what other RWW readers think will happen.
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