As of yesterday - AT&T, Apple differ on the iPhone gap

http://news.com.com/ATT%2C+Apple+dif...3-6198884.html

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The honeymoon might already be over between Apple and AT&T.

The two partners stood in stark contrast Wednesday evening following the
results of Apple's third-quarter earnings, in which the company revealed it
sold 270,000 iPhones in the first 30 hours the product was on sale. Earlier
in the week, AT&T said it had activated only 146,000 iPhones during a
similar period of time.

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:48:38 -0500, DTC
<no_spam@move_along_folks.foob> wrote:

>http://news.com.com/ATT%2C+Apple+dif...3-6198884.html
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>The honeymoon might already be over between Apple and AT&T.
>
>The two partners stood in stark contrast Wednesday evening following the
>results of Apple's third-quarter earnings, in which the company revealed it
>sold 270,000 iPhones in the first 30 hours the product was on sale. Earlier
>in the week, AT&T said it had activated only 146,000 iPhones during a
>similar period of time.






Kumquats and oranges.

Apple was selling many, many iPhones online for later delivery.
Not all phones sold & delivered Friday and Saturday were
immediately activated.

Is that all so hard to understand?


All the pundits, pre June 29, said Apple hadto sell 200,000
for the 3 day weekend for the rollout to be a success. They sold
270,000 in thew first 2 days. By any measure, the rollout was
a success, and Wall Street so voted with their wallets on July 26.

Meanwhile on July 26, after releasing those numbers the day before
and under pain of Sarbanes-Oxley predicting 1 million sold by end of
October, and 10 million sold in 2008; And AT&T payments to
Apple (Apple's cut of subscription fees) hadn't even started yet.

Apple stock closed up 6 + % on a day when most other stocks were going
down, down, down, with
Dow Jones DOWN 300 points.

karlkrandall@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> Is that all so hard to understand?

Nothing to understand as I made no commentary on the information.

DTC <no_spam@move_along_folks.foob> wrote:
> http://news.com.com/ATT%2C+Apple+dif...ap/2100-1047_3...
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> The honeymoon might already be over between Apple and AT&T.

That's merely a headline designed to grab eyeballs, written by: Tom
Krazit (Staff Writer, CNET News.com)


If Mr. Krazit is so mystified by the how & why the numbers appear to
be so different, it just means that he flunked Algebra class in
Freshman year High School...essentially, the one value is a subset of
the other.


-hh

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:42:31 -0500, DTC
<no_spam@move_along_folks.foob> wrote:

>karlkrandall@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>> Is that all so hard to understand?
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>Nothing to understand as I made no commentary on the information.


On the misinformation, as exhibited by the title of your post.