It seems that the iPhone's launch was either a success, or a failure, depending on who's reporting on it.
The Street: Finally, Apple's iPhone Lowdown
USA Today: Apple: 270,000 iPhones sold in first 2 days
"270K in the first 30 hours" reads like one of those amorphous metrics that retailers manipulate to make themselves look good, like "Sales per square foot." It sounds great, but it's neither here nor there in relation to the big picture.
The Street: Finally, Apple's iPhone Lowdown
USA Today: Apple: 270,000 iPhones sold in first 2 days
"270K in the first 30 hours" reads like one of those amorphous metrics that retailers manipulate to make themselves look good, like "Sales per square foot." It sounds great, but it's neither here nor there in relation to the big picture.
Nobody hands out gold medals at the 30 meter mark in the 100M sprint for best start. It's all about the number by the end of the year.
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The most significant problems with the iPhone are: lack of 3G to support next-generation wireless applications and features, vendor lock-in and 3rd party application/developer availability.
That and the fact that "candy bar" cell phones have largely been supplanted by clamshell designs.
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