Though I am not surprised that Aooke hit the 10,000,000 sales target early it is impressive that they have surpassed Rim.

A better than expected quarter, though the new MacBook pricing at least here in the UK is a bit higher than expected, I myself am waiting for the new iMacs.

Does anyone remember the naysayers when the iPhone was originally announced? I do. "They" said that Apple was out of its league in the mobile phone business. "They" said that Apple would get its head handed to it on a plate by the big boys like Nokia and RIM. "They" said the iPhone wouldn't be the success that the iPod was because Apple would have some real competition from ruthless, experienced mobile phone manufacturers who knew and controlled a difficult market.

But once again SJ and company have come up with totally disruptive technology packaged in an easy to use form that has shot dead many of the business models thought to be indisputable. The so-called ruthless cell phone manufacturers are scrambling to deal with this disruption in their markets. It's a pleasure to watch this going down. Oh the schadenfreude!

Curious, is this iphone 3g against blackberry phones or one phone??

Steve Ballmer said:

"Would I trade 96% of the market for 4% of the market? I want to have products that appeal to everybody," he said. "We'll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get."

So Apple must be lying or something.

</sarcasm>