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July 25, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Apple: 270K iPhones in two days
Apple revealed Wednesday it sold 270,000 iPhones in the first two days the device hit the U.S. market.
Yesterday, AT&T said iPhone sales had boosted earnings, but indicated that it activated only 146,000 iPhone subscribers in the first two days. It said more 40 percent of them were new customers.
Tom Yager may be right, given this coup for AT&T, that this lock-in deal is "funny business".
Reality Check on iPhone: Analysts predicted Apple would sell 500,000 iPhones in the first weekend. Notice how the faithful Apple press did not take the same tack as The New York Times business section, which noted "IPhone Use Disappoints; Apple Slides"
Meanwhile, back at the desktop, Apple said Mac sales lifted Apple for $818 million in third quarter profit.
This news comes on the heels of our report yesterday that said Windows Vista use was growing as Mac OS X stayed flat.
Given how far off Blackfriars was in on iPhone sales, I will take a stab and say I think Vista will continue to go up at cost of Mac, given that while it is not great, the choice in term of laptops -- the fastest growing segment, on the PC side puts Apple to shame.
And on price, Apple is way off still. Too bad the quality of Apple gear has slipped too, making the price premium hurt even more. A friend has had two hard drives crash on his Core Duo Macbook, and let's not forget the site macbookrandomshutdown.com.
Posted by Mike Barton on July 25, 2007 03:41 PM
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