Apple announced record quarterly numbers for a non-holiday (read Christmas) quarter. The executives at Apple also admitted that it can't make enough iPhone 3GS to meet the market demand. In the opening remarks of a conference call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer told reports and analysts "We are current unable to make enough iPhone 3GSs to meet robust demand, and we're working to address this."
Apple believes the short supply is only temporary and will roll out the iPhone 3GS in worldwide markets as planned.
?We?re thrilled to have sold over 5.2 million iPhones during the quarter and users have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications from our App Store in its first year.? said Steve Jobs, Apple?s CEO.