02-04-2009, 08:36 AM
Paul F. wrote:
Based on the complete LACK of advertising for the product (that I've seen, anyway), they must have tripled a sales of 5 units, to 15 units...
No, it's more than 15, Paul.
Before this "tripling" news, there were these reports:
Piper Jaffray Estimates Apple TV Sales
Estimates from the developer of atvusb-creator
"Downloads of the AppleTV installer are currently running at about 1k/day with almost 30k downloads in about 1 month and that's even just the OSX platform version of the installer. I can't wait to see the numbers when the Win32 platform installer is released. I seriously doubt that I'm seeing 10 percent of AppleTV users, more like 1 percent which puts my estimated total AppleTVs at somewhere between 1 to 3 million."
So, at that time (October 2008) it looked like Apple had sold about 4.5 million Apple TV units.
It could be quite a few more now given that another 3 months have passed and this news in the OP.