What does 'nearly' 10 million shipped mean?

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kowenicki said:

Then you shouldnt have heavily implied it was.

I'll leave it at that.

Fair enough. And I'll just repost this here for to consider you might have misinterpreted:

I love the fact that one company gives us a definite figure and some people question it but another company gives us ambiguous figures and the same people take the most optimistic estimate they can. Brilliant.

No need to reply. Just consider it.