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Apple Says 250,000 iPhones Sold to Unlockers
Hugh Pickens writes "Timothy D. Cook, Chief Operating Officer at Apple, disclosed during Apple's conference call to discuss their fourth quarter earnings that they estimate 250,000 of the 1.4 Million iPhones that have been sold were bought by people intending to unlock the phone. 'The elasticity in demand with the price drop] enabled us to far surpass our expectation of hitting around a million units cumulatively by the end of the quarter. Some number of these were sold to people that have an intention to unlock and [while] we don't know precisely how many people are doing that, our current guess is there is probably 250,000 of the 1.4 million that we sold where people had bought them with the intention of doing that. Many of those happened after the price cut.' Apple knows how many iPhones have been sold and how many have been activated with ATT. The difference is the number that are unlocked."
Does anyone else find it somewhat ironic that a company that has roots in defrauding Ma Bell is having these problems now?
In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I have to assume the majority of the 250,000 were most likely blended.
You just don't get it, do you?
It's got an "i" in its name. That's right, not just any old copy of the ninth letter of the Roman alphabet, but a motherfucking lower-case "i".
Comprendez?
Ka-ching! Someone give this man a donut and a payrise - he has successfully broken free of the reality distortion field!
which is totally what she said
"...I, unfortunately, live in Canada..."
I don't think I've heard anyone believably state this before, unless they were talking about the weather.
Which begs the question, why don't people use words and language the ways in which they were intended? I say we decimate the lot!
Okay, I'm just trying to make a point here, of course. I'm not saying I entirely disagree with you, but we'll forever fight uphill battles if we hold too tightly to original Latin, and so forth. ;)
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
"Apple knows how many iPhones have been sold and how many have been activated with ATT. The difference is the number that are unlocked."
Well, unlocked, or blended. We all know at least one was blended.
Is that part of the job description?
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.