Can't Get a Clear Signal on iPhone Sales

Third, in our society, there is an infestation of analysts. As a result, the range of expectations for anything is broad enough for The Business Press Maven to fit his hips through. When we are talking expectations, you are always better off looking at those held by a couple of reputable sources than a range that includes everyone.

So what is the final, definitive answer? How, amid all this clatter and chaos, is the iPhone selling? The Business Press Maven has obviously built his Street cred on telling investors things no one else does, right? Well, right you are. And I'm not going to disappoint. So at this early, early stage, precisely how is the iPhone doing?

I have no blessed idea.

Nobody in the know is talking enough, and at this early point, things could change anyway. After the initial excitement, buzz about the product might be lame, killing sales in the crib. Or the opposite can happen and sales can build.

Days into the selling, I have no idea, and any investor playing this one is doing so on nothing better than a hunch.