One sixth of iPhones not activated on AT&T ?

How about an alternative explanation from an awful lot of hacked
iPhones.

Since AT&T has to pay Apple some percentage of monthly service fees,
maybe AT&T "Accidently" miscounted so it wouldnt have to pay Apple so
much, after all 100,000 phones times $10/month = $1,000,000 a month.

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[email protected] wrote:
> How about an alternative explanation from an awful lot of hacked
> iPhones.
>
> Since AT&T has to pay Apple some percentage of monthly service fees,
> maybe AT&T "Accidently" miscounted so it wouldnt have to pay Apple so
> much, after all 100,000 phones times $10/month = $1,000,000 a month.

Doubt it. Apple is still involved, since you activate via iTunes.



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Mike

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:59:58 -0400, "Rashputin"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>"Tinman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> How about an alternative explanation from an awful lot of hacked
>>> iPhones.
>>>
>>> Since AT&T has to pay Apple some percentage of monthly service fees,
>>> maybe AT&T "Accidently" miscounted so it wouldnt have to pay Apple so
>>> much, after all 100,000 phones times $10/month = $1,000,000 a month.
>>
>> Doubt it. Apple is still involved, since you activate via iTunes.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mike
>>
>>
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>
> That one sixth accounts for the people who plan to leave it in the
>original box and sell it on eBay a few years from now. They know a Lisa
>when they see one.
>


Or a Macintosh XL

In their financial reports filed with the SEC.


Apple says it sold 1.119 Million iPhones last quarter

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/10/22results.html


AT&T says it activated 1.1 Million iPhones

http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pi...rticleid=24568

http://www.att.com/Investor/Financia...7_IB_FINAL.pdf


That leaves only 19,000 hacked or still in the box iPhones?

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In their financial reports filed with the SEC.
>
>
> Apple says it sold 1.119 Million iPhones last quarter
>
> http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/10/22results.html
>
>
> AT&T says it activated 1.1 Million iPhones
>
> http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pi...rticleid=24568
>
> http://www.att.com/Investor/Financia...7_IB_FINAL.pdf
>
>
> That leaves only 19,000 hacked or still in the box iPhones?

Have you ever heard of rounding? 1.1 million IS 1.119 million when rounded
to 1 decimal place.

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:42:55 -0500, "JeffTex42" <[email protected]>
wrote:

><[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> In their financial reports filed with the SEC.
>>
>>
>> Apple says it sold 1.119 Million iPhones last quarter
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/10/22results.html
>>
>>
>> AT&T says it activated 1.1 Million iPhones
>>
>> http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pi...rticleid=24568
>>
>> http://www.att.com/Investor/Financia...7_IB_FINAL.pdf
>>
>>
>> That leaves only 19,000 hacked or still in the box iPhones?
>
>Have you ever heard of rounding? 1.1 million IS 1.119 million when rounded
>to 1 decimal place.
>


So you're claiming that zero phones may have been hacked?

[email protected] wrote:
> In their financial reports filed with the SEC.
>
>
> Apple says it sold 1.119 Million iPhones last quarter
>
> http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/10/22results.html
>
>
> AT&T says it activated 1.1 Million iPhones
>
> http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pi...rticleid=24568
>
> http://www.att.com/Investor/Financia...7_IB_FINAL.pdf
>
>
> That leaves only 19,000 hacked or still in the box iPhones?

C'mon, read the damn articles.

Apple said it sold 1.119 million iPhones for the quarter that ended
9/30/2007 (this does not include sales in the prior quarter).

AT&T says it activated 1.1 million iPhones, "as of Oct. 23," 2007.

You have mistakenly tried to correlate figures that shouldn't correlate.
Moreover, Apples said it has sold 1.39 million iPhones as of 9/30/2007. If
you wanted to use a figure to compare to AT&T's that should have been it.

1.39 million minus 1.1 million equals 290,000. But we don't know exactly how
many iPhones were activated by AT&T by 9/30/07, though it's safe to assume
it's lower than 1.1 million. Ergo the 290,000 figure is probably 300,000 or
higher.

Apple has said, as of 9/30/2007, 250,000 iPhones were sold to people who
unlocked them. Considering the 300,000 figure would include units intended
to be activated, but not actually active, 250,000 sounds like a pretty good
estimate.

Nothing to see here, folks, just move along....



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Mike