"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote in news:elmop-
C03A82.18040324012008@nntp1.usenetserver.com:

> HOW MANY iPhones were supposed to be alive and kicking by year end?
>
> - - -
>
> http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-985...?tag=nefd.blgs
>
> Report: iPhones piling up at AT&T stores
> Posted by Tom Krazit
>
> Is demand for the iPhone in America already starting to wane?
>
> AT&T, the exclusive American carrier of the iPhone, activated just
> 900,000 iPhones during the fourth quarter, the company revealed during
> its earnings conference call Thursday. It wrapped up the year with "just
> at or slightly under 2 million iPhone customers," according to company
> executives.
>
>

According to one of the financial blogs I read, recently, 1.7M iPHones are
"missing" from ATT (never activated). They could be:
Stolen - but I doubt it.
Just listening to MP3 files - even more far fetched

or

sitting in INVENTORY, unsold, just as I predicted.....which also accounts
for other reports of PARTS ORDERS being cancelled or held off as iPhones
pile up!

Something in the numbers differentials doesn't add up. There can't be that
MANY cracked iPHones, can there? Can that high a percentage of sales be
going to Jailbreak hackers?.......NOT!

Don't bullshit me about sales overseas. These numbers are for AMERICAN
sales...only.