they were dumb. put those iPhone on verizon, and they'd a sold a billion of em. the northeast is verizon country, and not AT&T. limiting the iPhone to one of the least blanketing systems was a WEIRD choice in my book.
and not because i have verizon do i say this. i say this due to the 10 years ive spent in the wireless industry and what most of our sales are for... VERIZON wireless accts, not at&t tw On 12/6/07, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not going to matter until they open the phones up for third party > applications just like every other phone out there. > > If you need to go through some laborious process or be a 'preferred' > Apple provider or something like that then the phones will stagnate > and become as niche as a Mac PC. > > Tell me something. While apple sells a million phones, is it that > people aren't also purchasing OTHER phones? How many of those other > phones will be bought in total? > 10 million? 20 million? 50 million? People are going to stop buying > Sony Ericsson, HTC, Nokia or Palm phones while apple sells one (1) > million phones? > > On Dec 6, 2007 11:53 PM, Dave l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sorry i got my numbers wrong > > > > from an article > > "So what's our projection for Apple's holiday season? I'll be publishing a > > detailed analysis in the September Analyzing Apple report (some previous > > reports are here), but I expect Apple to significantly exceed last year's > > 21 million iPods sold, and I also expect the average iPod selling price to > > rise. " > > > > so this should cover your "Anyway, they would have to hit these numbers (12 > > million sold...which" mark. > > > > then add some iphone to that.. this prediction going off of current sales > > would add another 3 million iphones to that for xmas > > " One million iPhones sold, expect millions more for the holidays > > > > the steady state of iPhone sales is about 10,000 a day, or 300,000 a month. > > Expect that number to ramp up to double that for the next three months > > based upon the holiday selling season and the new lower price. That means > > about 3 million iPhones sold by the end of the year, which any way you look > > at it, is a pretty impressive debut in Apple's new line of business. " > > > > So if say they hit 25 million iphone & ipods, that doubles your estimate of > > what it would take for the iphone os to go past linux. And since the ipod > > and iphone use same browser and os both the iphone and ipod touch will > > count for that and that makes it apply to this thread. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247829 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
