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Old 05-12-2009, 08:00 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
He was talking about the total number of Kindles, both the original and the K2. He also said that estimate of 500k for the original is simply impossible. There is barely a million 6" screens in existence. There's no way Amazon could have gotten that many.
And we believe this guy over professional analysts and news reporters because ... ?

1 million devices is sort of a "magic number" whereupon you start to see the device in use in the wild on a regular basis. Ask anyone who has been on a plane or train in the past 3 months if they've seen a Kindle; a good chance the answer is yes.
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