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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."
Apple knows there are 250K unlockers and yet will still turn those iPhones into bricks with first firmware update. WTF? Jobs is laughing at you.
To me the thing is completely useless, because I must be able to dial the phone number I want without looking at the screen, I must be able to just find a button to silence the phone, to reply, to end call, whatever. I don't want anything but a phone, so I got a Motorolla L2. It's a good simple phone, it still has too much garbage I don't want, like a browser, games, some other cruft, but it is a basic phone, no camera or anything and it is thin (razor.) Also it is not a flip phone, which is great. I just hope there is always a phone that I want to buy and that not all phones are converted into thes 'communicators'.
You can't handle the truth.
That's absurd. The Rio was revolutionary; the iPod is evolutionary. The first cell phone was revolutionary; the iPhone is evolutionary.
Apple has never revolutionized anything. They simply have good design engineers.
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