Opinion: iPhone sign up figures disappointing? Please
According to "Faultine" over at The Register, "no one can forgive Apple" because AT&T "only" registered 146,000 iPhones on its network in the first two days.
Sorry to disappoint you, "Faultline", but I don't have to forgive Apple because I've not fallen out with them.
Apparently, because, "In the past [Apple] has executed launches so well that it has become metronomic and surprise-free," they're at fault for not selling the amounts that analysts predicted.
Well boo-hoo.
Yes there were some problems with activation on the AT&T network, which means that a number of iPhones won't have activated within the first couple of days.
The launch of the iPhone is akin to the first iPod launch - it's as much a catalyst for future hardware as it is about being successful in itself.
When companies are judged on 48 hours' worth of sales, based on the hype largely created by the general public, journalists, and analysts - not the company itself - then there's a serious problem.
Perhaps when Faultline launched his or her last product, it went without a hitch? Or they sold two billion units.
No, though not.
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