Comments on: Get Ready for all the “iPhone Fails” reports…

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:45:16 +0000

Sounds fishy to me. I think will be pleased with the sales figures. It took 2 days for my activation to be completed as the porting process hit a snag. I have a feeling that this was pretty common. I bought my iphone last Saturday and there were hordes by the iphone display and two out of the three local stores were out during the week.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:45:40 +0000

Sounds like a plant so slackers can buy Apple stock at a discount.

By: Nicholas Aleshin

Nicholas Aleshin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:08:34 +0000

On the sixth day of release (Thursday, 5 July) it was reported that AT&T had activated over a million iPhones.

http://www.waitingforiphone.com/2007/07/05/att-activates-over-1-million-iphones/

http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=7422

http://digg.com/apple/600_000_iPhone_Activations_with_AT_T

By: Joshua Curtiss

Joshua Curtiss — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:15:54 +0000

Or even looking at the first WEEK, vs the first weekend, as many activations from that week worked their way out in 4-6 days.

By: fog city dave

fog city dave — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:52:50 +0000

Frankly, this is a shockingly low number from AT&T and can not simply be attributed to their activation problems, which only accounted for about 2% of iPhone activations. Now, a lot of people bought two phones on that first night, etc.. but still… I expected to see sales of at least 400,000 for that Friday-Saturday period, but that now seems hard to believe with only 146,000 activations. I must admit I’m stunned by this, and can understand the reaction of the market and the press. This will make Apple’s report tomorrow very interesting. I’m still guessing Apple will report 400,000 units sold in that first day and a half, but I don’t know how to correlate that with these very low numbers from AT&T.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:13:36 +0000

@PV

Yeah, I have spell check, like any modern browser, but for some reason it never catches things in the title section of WordPress.

And this is not a preemptive attack against anyone. Reuters is already claiming that the “iPhone disappoints”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070724/bs_nm/att_results_dc

There is no “Apple apologist” working on this site. Read around a bit and you’ll quickly discover that. In fact, do a Google search and you’ll find where true “Apple apologists” have accused me of being a Microsoft plant and running a fake blog just to make Apple look bad because of the fact that I don’t apologize for the company when another product has the potential to be as good as (or better than) theirs.

What bothers me, and what you can already begin seeing reported if you’ll look around, is that people are reporting this device as “disappointing” over less than two days worth of sales when At&t clearly had wide spread problems with the activation of customers. (not the “minimal” problems that the linked to report claims.)

Analysts that simply make numbers up or estimate numbers with their best guesses are a plague. Not just on Apple products, but on pretty much any product ever. These guys pull numbers out of a hat based on small surveys (if we’re lucky!) and some companies live and die by this sort of thing.

It’s a ridiculous way to analyze business.

By: PV

PV — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:51:38 +0000

Do you have spell check? Applegazette “failes” on this one. You should rethink labeling some else’s work as “crap!”

Also, don’t criticize the analysts until you see Apple’s report tomorrow! In fact, at this point you’re making conjectures about their reporting. Your preemptive attack is a typical sign of an Apple apologist’s paranoia. Every report I’ve read has mentioned the issue of problems with activations.

By: Adam Nelson

Adam Nelson — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:46:08 +0000

What’s “Failes”? Perhaps you mean “Fails”?

I’d love to be an analyst. You can pull estimates out of your nether regions, and when a company doesn’t meet them, you can pound them, and when a company exceeds them, you can praise them. There’s never any accountability for the analysts’ position, and as far as I can tell, none of them are specifically trained for their particular field, such as technology. All appear to be generic business folk.