anon <anon@anon.com> wrote 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.
>

A little perspective for comparison:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2119280,00.asp

PC Mag says sellphone sales have dropped sharply because of economic
conditions and most people already have phones and contracts. The first 3
months of 2008, all phone sales was 256,400,000 units. Nokia, numero uno
in sales sold 91,100,000 of those. All these figures are down quite a bit
from 2006.

256,400,000 in 90 days divides, add 1, carry the 2, count on my fingers,
about 2,848,888 phones a day, normal sales.

After all the holding and drooling, 1M sales was impressive, if it was
true, but is not sustainable like the 2,848,888 phones sold every day, ad
nauseum, by the big boys.

Is it any wonder your call drops?...(c;