The French carrier of cellular communication Orange - official Apple’s partner in France, declared on Friday that for the first month has been sold 70 thousand Apple’s devices. Thus by the end of November, the head of Orange company Didier Lombard declared, that Orange plans to sell not less than one hundred thousand iPhones.

Yesterday representatives from Orange have tried to soften earlier performance of their boss, and having declared, that the received result is very near to their forecast “50-100 thousand devices”, however world share market obviously has not believed them - for one day of Apple’s share have lost in “weight” more than 7 percent - the cost has fallen from $195 to $180. Dreams of a treasured lath of $200 remain only dreams.

It is necessary to tell, that behavior of investors is completely logically. I shall remind you, that growth of Apple share is caused by forecasts of analysts about “Fantastic future” in which iPhone will play the key role. January, 15th the date when Steve Jobs should declare sale of five millions iPhones for the first half of a year. This figure consists of huge iPhone New Year’s sales in USA and Europe (400 thousand sold iPhone in Europe itself, the share of France will be 100 thousand devices).

Now we see, that this forecast, at least in one country, is very overestimated, and therefore all harmonious picture begins to fall as a house of cards. Apple’s fall could stop only some amazing strong novelties at Macworld, 2008, or… those five millions sold iPhones. In any case, the moment of true will come very soon.

P.S. One more fact concerning Orange and results of the first month. According to them, about 48 percent of all sold Apple’s devices was sold to a new Orange subscribers, and 3,5 thousand of them were unlocked.

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