The excitement around the T-Mobile G1 is palpable (as is the skepticism), and HTC is planning on the Googlephone to contribute a huge amount to their bottom line. Over the next year, they’re hoping to ship $18 billion worth of the things, with a full $7 billion of that being in the rush and holiday season. That’s a lot of phones!
They really could hit those targets, especially with T-Mobile pushing the thing on new customers; after all, it’s not much of an investment, and it’s not too much of a stretch to tell unsure buyers that it does everything the iPhone does but costs less and has a full keyboard. Plus, as the Android Market starts heating up, we’re going to see a lot of really attractive apps — everyone’s building teams and I’m sure there’s a big independent effort as well.
That is 45M phones @ a carrier price of 400$ (probably less) in 12 months, for a SIM locked phone with no headphone jack or native Exchange compatibility. I think they are on opium, but best of luck to them.
I’m with you there. Maybe they’re including some kind of revenue sharing or behind the scenes dealmaking. It wasn’t very specific.
They obviously mean $18billion profit, and they make $1 per phone in profit.. ;)
Why on EARTH is there no headphone jack in this thing?
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