The Bob wrote:

> But now we're playing the same old game. Apple may well have sold a
> million phones to the carriers, but that does not mean that a million were
> sold to consumers and activated.

In some cases it was a voucher for a phones. They wouldn't let a phone
out of the store unless it was activated, and they couldn't activate all
the phones that they had due to server problems. Still, presuming that
everyone with a voucher actually gets the phone, it appears that a
million will have been sold in 21 countries. Pretty good, though not as
good as the original iPhone which sold 700K units, in less time, in the
U.S..