Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been on the rise today, as renewed enthusiasm over future iPhone sales has brought buyers into the stock, pushing shares up $7.67 to $130.63, or 6.2% .The company has stated that its goal for overall iPhone sales by the end of 2008 was 10 million units, and according to Apple's COO, Tim Cook, the company remains confident in hitting that hefty goal.
Since the highly anticipated release of the iPhone last year, there have been a couple of points that Apple has taken a bit of heat over, the first being that outside programmers were not allowed to write programs for the iPhone, and the second being the company's decision to grant individual carriers rights to sell their phones in their respective countries.
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