Let’s do some math, courtesy of Apple and Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster:

Apple: Apple will sell 10 million iPhones in 2008.
Gene Munster: Apple will sell 45 million iPhones in 2009.
Gene Munster: 52% of iPhone buyers are new AT&T customers.
Gene Munster: Apple will receive $3 a month for existing AT&T
customers, and $11 for new AT&T customers.

Along with those statements, let’s assume that new and less expensive iPhone models won’t lower the average too much, that Apple maintains at least a 25% margin (likely), and that Apple’s payments from AT&T are pure profit. Let’s also assume that the 4GB and 8GB models sell equally well, despite some initial and dubious reports that most buyers are choosing the 8GB model.

So, how much will Apple earn in 2008, if it sells 10 million iPhones?

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By default, your MacBook Pro’s top row of keys is dedicated to hardware features. To invoke Exposé, you have to remember to press Fn in the bottom-left corner of the keyboard while pressing that F9 key—pretty frustrating if those Exposé keys are already commited to muscle memory from working on a desktop Mac.

Fortunately, there’s an easy fix:

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Most iPhones, iPods, and AppleTVs go to Windows users using iTunes, which by now they know and probably even like a lot. Now imagine you’re a Windows user, and you hear the following:

Announcing Leopard, with an all-new Finder!

Hey, what’s that? Looks familiar, a lot like iTunes! It looks great, as nice as my iPhone, even!

Announcing powerful new iPhone features in Leopard!

Wow, that’s cool! They say it works on Windows too, but it looks like it works a lot better on the Mac. I wonder…

Announcing the all-new iMac, now with powerful iPhone integration!

Only $899? And the holiday season is coming…

Recent reports indicate that new iPhone owners love their iPhones, and one of the reasons they do is because they understand how to use them, and thus feel empowered. This is bound to be a heady experience for users new to Apple products, heady enough to make them at least wonder, when Leopard starts making news, what it would be like to use other Apple products.

Apple knows this, and will almost certainly coordinate their marketing push accordingly. This holiday season seems poised to break all records

Apple just filed several new patent applications which may indicate that an upgrade to iWeb, and iLife, may be imminent. Apple filed them back in January 2006, but they’ve just now been published by the Patent Office.

A patent application for predictive styling describes iWeb’s templated styles, for instance.

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