In other news, an anonymous Apple Store employee has done some homework and tallied up average reservation numbers at other US stores -- he estimates about 800 people on average are on the reservation list per Apple Store (ranging from a couple hundred to well over a thousand), which amounts to about 200, 000 reservations as of now, a number he believes could double before launch.
ENGADGET: iPhone 3G S pre-orders start shipping, reservations estimated in the hundreds of thousands