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Munster Says 3 Percent of Teens Own iPhones, 9 Percent of Friends Totally Jealous

Phil Elmer-Dewitt, voice of the newly relocated Fortune Apple 2.0 blog, published Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster's latest report, a survey of 980 teens that reveals:
• 3% of students surveyed own iPhones
• An additional 9% expect to buy an iPhone in the next 6 months
• 4.2% of surveyed adults also had iPhones
• iPod market share is holding steady at 82%, with Sony and SanDisk tied for second place (4% each)
But PED thought Mr. Munster's numbers were a tad fishy, that rather than accurately reflecting the US, it was a snapshot of a tech-savvier subset.
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iPhone Price Cut Has Driven 200-Percent Sales Hike

According to Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, before Sept. 5, iPhone sales had leveled off at around 9,000 per day, mostly at $600 a pop. Now, following the iPhone price cut, Apple is moving 27,000 per day at $400 each. But is this growth sustainable? No. Munster says he thinks that after this initial 200% sales surge, the price-cut will yield a stable 50% sales increase. Apple has verified none of this. [Apple 2.0]

"I'm on record as the first guy over two hundo (I put the extra five bucks on there just for that purpose)." [fakegene]

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Gene Munster Predicts $205 For Apple in 2008

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has moved Apple's stock price projection for 2009 up a whole year to 2008, making Munster's projection the highest price anyone has ever given Apple: $205 per share. Is there method to his madness? Of course. And it has something to do with our obnoxious graphic.
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