“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Apple was projecting sales of 10M iPhones by the end of 2008, which this MacWorld editorial thought was way too optimistic:
http://www.macworld.com/article/54941/2007/01/blewit.html
Looks like they're on target. As noted, at the time, RIM was selling 5.5M/12mo. 10M iPhones/18mo is nothing to sneeze at.