iPhone sales: 1.119 milion reasons to smile

Remember how three months ago when Apple released its third-quarter results, people saw that the company sold 270,000 iPhones for the quarter and — ignoring the fact the iPhone was on sale for about 36 hours during the quarter — began running around screaming “The iPhone is doomed, I tells you — DOOMED!”?

Well, Apple announced its fourth-quarter earnings Monday — Comrade Moren blogged the proceedings over at MacUser — and it seems like there’s much less of the iPhone-inspired panic this time around.

Apparently meeting your stated goal of selling 1 million phones before the end of September several weeks ahead of schedule nips that kind of hysteria in the bud.

Nevertheless, this is the first full quarter of iPhone sales, so let’s see how Apple did: 1,119,00 units for the three-month period ended September 30. That brings the grand total of iPhone sales to a shade under 1.4 million.

I just looked outside my window — no financial analysts are rampaging through the streets pronouncing wrack and ruin yet.

In fact, the most striking thing about the iPhone sales figure is how little attention they’re getting. I guess a second consecutive quarter of record Mac sales will tend to overshadow things just a bit.