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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."
Reasons:
1) They call it the iPhone instead of the NegroPhone.
2) Apple insists on making everything white instead of Negro Black. They must be White Supremacists.
3) The iPhone called me a nigger once.
We as negro people, it's time, it's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild The iPhone, the one that should be a Chocolate iPhone. And I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. The iPhone will be chocolate at the end of the day. --
I be the Negro.
Apple more controller? Are youkidding me? They only have full control over the software AND hardware you use. You cannot posibly use their software on non-apple hardware. How many were sueded because creating Aqua themes for XP? How many have been sued because using MacOS icons on Linuzzz? Apple were the one who killed the Apple clones, killing that way the competition and taking back full control once again? Apple controllers? Nahhhh :-)
It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
"I bought the iPhone the day it came out thinking I'd have the same reaction ("it's just a phone")."
No you didnt, nobody stands in line to buy a new gizmo the very day it comes out thinking theyll have that reaction. You are a fucking liar.
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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