anon <anon@anon.com> amazed us all with the following in
news:anon-25D427.19135515072008@news.giganews.com:

> The Bob <nospam@bob.com> 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.
>
> All phones were activated in the store. The 1,000,000 number is
> accurate.

But all phones were not activated in an APPLE store- they had to sell stock
to the carriers so that they could sell them in their stores. So it is
very probable that Apple sold more phones than were activated.