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by jaegrqualm 953 days ago
> The new online Apple Store brought in $12 million of revenue in its first 30 days, for an average of $730,000 per day. That's three-quarters of where Dell's daily revenue had reached after its first six months.

Uhh...

12,000,000 / 30 = 400,000

If I wanted to be charitable, I could guess that they might have gotten their numbers mixed up talking about net and gross revenue, but... This feels like a pretty big oversight.

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Hmm, so 730k * 30 = 21.9M... with $21M and $12M figures in play, there may have been a digit transposition mistake somewhere, plus maybe truncation instead of rounding... Not that those are lesser mistakes, of course.