According to PC Inpact , sales of iPhone in France will just exceed 100000 units. If this figure is confirmed, it would be a very bad news for Orange, and also for Apple. Indeed, it would have sold only that 5000 per month in this case from the beginning of this year, which is a ridiculously low figure, in light of the forecast of the operator. It only remains to hope that the iPhone 2 will do a better job of convincing the french. [Update] According to our friends at Macg�n�ration Orange has just denied the information. The iPhone would greatly surpass 100000 units sold. Too bad they did not give a precise figure. [Update 2] It's time for PCinpact to reconsider its announcement and be justified. We include: ... "we passed the 100000 mark today." That is what we have recorded from the mouth of the Orange direction to the assembly of journalists in the late morning. These remarks were transcribed in the afternoon to AFP with a change of size: "Orange has easily passed the mark" of 100000 iPhone sold. This "easily passed" was not said earlier when the issue of sales of the Apple phone was raised. So either we follow what we have heard personally, noted and recorded, or we report what we were told afterwards. In both cases Orange did not wish to give the exact figures for sales of iPhone. Again, we say "easily." In short, the truth is somewhere in excess of 100000. Everything is then question of semantics and interpretation of the word easily. [translation by jeremy]

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