July 26th, 2007
Besides the one in the blender, where are the 124,000 unactivated iPhones?
Yesterday, as a part of its quarterly earnings statement, Apple announced that it had sold 270,000 iPhones during the first 30 hours it was on sale. Though it’s doubtful that iPhone sales will stay on that pace, that 270K number met the company’s expectations. Although Apple’s exclusive wireless provider/partner for the iPhone (AT&T) isn’t disputing the 270K figure, it has released its own number regarding the number of iPhones that were activated over the same period of time: 146,000.
During that first weekend of sales, there were reports of activation problems, but AT&T and Apple basically said that an insignificant number of iPhone buyers were impacted. So, if that’s the case, what happened to the 124,000 phones that weren’t activated. Have their buyers tried DVD Jon’s AT&T-less form of activation (basically, this turns the iPhone into something that doesn’t exist yet: an iPod with WiFi. But it can’t make calls). Or, are people blending them? See the video below:
| 07/26/07
