Below The Beltway

The big rumor today is that Apple is apparently working on a version of the iPhone for Verizon Wireless customers:
HONG KONG/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A subsidiary of Taiwan netbook PC pioneer Asustek has won orders to manufacture Apple’s iPhone to run on the CDMA standard, a source said on Tuesday.
Apple is said to be developing [...]

cNet reports on signs that the iPhone may not be tied exclusively to AT&T for much longer:
While everyone else was calling the iPhone the greatest device of all time and putting Steve Jobs on that pedestal he enjoys so much yesterday, AT&T quietly told its investors that the revenue sharing deal it had with Apple [...]

That’s about 13,500 phones per day, 563 per hour, 9 per minute:
Seventy four days out from launch, Apple has sold 1 million iPhones—smack dab on target with recent analyst predictions that the iPhone would surpass the mil mark by Sept. 30. In a press release, Steve Jobs said that it took nearly two years to [...]

Today’s New York Times has an interesting article about the quiet role that Taiwanese companies are playing in development and manufacture of the iPhone:
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Etched into the back of every iPhone are the words “Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.” Apple might as well have added “Made in Taiwan.”
With little fanfare, [...]

According to one survey, there are at least 100,000,000 potential iPhone owners out there:
Apple’s iPhone could emerge as the most successful product introduction of the 21st century, new research suggests.
Lightspeed Research surveyed 39,000 people on its U.S. online panel in the days following the launch of the device on June 29– and the research findings [...]