iPhone 3G Selling Twice as Fast as Original

The one major bit out of AT&T’s quarterly earnings call is that the iPhone 3G is selling twice as fast as the original iPhone did last summer–in case the unending squiggles of people trailing out of Apple Stores and AT&T shops didn’t tip you off. They didn’t actually say how many were sold, but we know that worldwide Apple sold a million of them as of nine days ago, just three days after launch. Of course, the hot US$199 price–undoubtedly responsible for the phone’s brief life on shelves–means AT&T won’t actually make money off of it until 2010. You know, when we’re on our fourth-gen iPhone. [Alley Insider]