It's Official The Iphone Is A Dud!!!

[mobileman]

Wasn't the first shipment completely sold out over the first weekend? 146,000 sold doesn't sound so bad if only 150,000 were available. We need more info.

[treobk214]

Originally Posted by mobileman

Wasn't the first shipment completely sold out over the first weekend? 146,000 sold doesn't sound so bad if only 150,000 were available. We need more info.

The gloating over this news is pretty funny. How many treo 180s or 300s were sold on the first few months? How many of HTC`s earliest devices were sold in the first few weeks? Wouldn`t HTC and palm have LOVED to have been able to boast such numbers with their initial offerings?
Oh, I certainly think so.

150,000 to 200,000 sold over the first few weeks? Not bad at all for apple`s first step into the cellphone arena - with their expensive HIGH END model no less. Wait until the low to mid level iphone nanos arrive at $199 to $299 price tags. Folks will be dumping their razors for these babies like crazy.

Please. Let the apple haters blow their hot air. Give it some time and apple will relandscape the mobile industry for them.

[ronbo2000]

Originally Posted by marcol

Interesting that you moved it here rather than to the dedicated iPhone forum at Phone Different.

I actually posted the same news at PD a couple of hours before the first post in this thread, but I guess it went pretty much unnoticed

Until the new site comes up, I can not do it. The links breaks between here and PhoneDifferent.

It will be addressed in the future.

[Malatesta]

Originally Posted by treobk214

The gloating over this news is pretty funny. How many treo 180s or 300s were sold on the first few months? How many of HTC`s earliest devices were sold in the first few weeks? Wouldn`t HTC and palm have LOVED to have been able to boast such numbers with their initial offerings?
Oh, I certainly think so.

150,000 to 200,000 sold over the first few weeks? Not bad at all for apple`s first step into the cellphone arena - with their expensive HIGH END model no less. Wait until the low to mid level iphone nanos arrive at $199 to $299 price tags. Folks will be dumping their razors for these babies like crazy.

Please. Let the apple haters blow their hot air. Give it some time and apple will relandscape the mobile industry for them.

I don't recall the hype when a Treo or HTC device was released. Were there commercials on every channel every 10 minutes? News stories? Articles?

Please. These numbers, if accurate, are the least that Apple could have done with this device considering how it was "reinventing the phone".

As stated like 20 times already (especially in the other iPhone thread): no one is denying that a couple hundred thousand sold phones is not a lot or is not impressive.

But in comparison to expectations of the market, it may have under-performed, hence the gloating. Very different things.

One could also argue that the iPhone will be "just another device" on a single carrier in the U.S., limiting it's impact.

[cadman]

When I had Cingular for a year I always changed plans without penalty, but now I hear that they operate the same. Verizon allows you to add features without penalty, i.e. data, sms, mms. But thats it. If you are modifying your plan, that to me is changing your contract and they have every right to extend it two years.

[AnteL0pe]

Originally Posted by treobk214

Wait until the low to mid level iphone nanos arrive at $199 to $299 price tags. Folks will be dumping their razors for these babies like crazy.

The Apple rumor mill is like no other. There wont be an iPhone nano.

[davidg4781]

Originally Posted by AnteL0pe

The Apple rumor mill is like no other. There wont be an iPhone nano.

And you know this how?

People said the same about the iPhone, AppleTV, Mac minis, iPods, etc.

[taylorh]

Originally Posted by cadman

When I had Cingular for a year I always changed plans without penalty, but now I hear that they operate the same. Verizon allows you to add features without penalty, i.e. data, sms, mms. But thats it. If you are modifying your plan, that to me is changing your contract and they have every right to extend it two years.

You can modify your rate plan (up/down) without a new contract. But going down you expunge your saved up rollover minutes.
And I disagree, I don't see any justification for re-upping a contract by simply changing how many minutes you buy. But if changing to new type plan to take advantage of new features (unlimited M2M, etc. or in the case of universal, unlimited calls to AT&T landline) then that would be considered a new promotional plan and a contract seems justified.
I read on a Yahoo group someone got slapped with a new contract for removing an add-on line from her family plan (the primary holder). That makes no sense at all. It does for the line that was being moved to a single plan, but the family holder shouldn't have to.

Sorry this is off-topic.

[ttrundle]

Originally Posted by cadman

They wanted verizon and verizon said no. That is why they went with ATT

any real documentation to support your claim?

[Pattycerts]

Another one of these threads?

The phone had a lot of hype, certainly, but we ARE talking about a 5 or 600.00 phone that is only available on one carrier.

I'm not saying 170k is a lot, I', saying that WHO KNOWS if that's a lot right now? Does anyone know how many 700w's sold the first 2 days? More specifically, in the first 30 hours?

Despite some post here to the contrary, Palm did hype one of their phones. The 700w. Hawkins and Gates at that press conference announcing "A Treo with Windows Mobile" and advertisements everywhere before it came out. Was it hyped as much as the iPhone? Of course not. But that comparison would be great, considering Treo's were already an established product and so was windows mobile.