So Steve Jobs did his usual dog and pony show at Macworld this week. The big news is the MacBook Air. But there was something else that caught my eye:

Jobs also said Apple has sold 4 million iPhones during their first 200 days on sale.

Now, let’s do the math on that. 4 million iPhones during the first 200 days. That’s 20,000 iPhones per day. 833 iPhones per hour. 14 iPhones a minute.

Let that sink in for a second. This is a $399 phone that is selling at the rate of 14 units per minute. Whenever someone tells you the American economy is in trouble, give them that statistic.

Bill Kinnon has a great post here about Willow Creek’s Christmas production. He ponders the question of, “how much is too much?” when it comes to these kinds of presentations.

It is an accurate reflection of the consumer church engaged within the
world it thinks its in - competing for the same audiences as movies and
restaurants - audiences who expect to be entertained. Misreading
Scripture to believe that Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000 was a way to
attract and entertain large crowds only shows the poor exegetical
skills of the consumer church. (Note, the crowds were gathered to hear
Jesus. He fed them long after they’d gathered.) Willow Creek and the
other churches mentioned in the Tribune article truly feel that they
are sharing Christ in that entertainment.

It’s a great post that brings together several different threads that seem to connect with this idea.