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Apple Says 250,000 iPhones Sold to Unlockers

Posted by Zonk on from the consumer-electronics-yearning-to-be-free dept.

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."

3 of 311 comments (clear)

  1. ATT shareholders? by tgd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ATT shareholders are the ones who should be paying attention.

    25% of the affluent side of the market is willing to risk bricking a $400 phone to avoid their service.

  2. It makes you wonder .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many more iPhones would have been sold if it was unlocked in the first place.

  3. Re:Whats the big deal? by SilentChris · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But I thought you said you were on vacation...so why would you want to do that?

    Some of us get paid lots of money to do that. :)