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Apple estimates number of unlocked phones

Posted by Dan Moren | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:28 AM PT

unlockedphone.jpgIf you didn’t take the time to listen to the entirety of Apple’s Q4 2007 financial results conference call yesterday, well, I can’t blame you. I did, and my eyes are still partially glazed over, perhaps explaining why I walked into the refrigerator this morning.

But if you weren’t listening, you may have missed a few interesting tidbits. Phil already covered the big news—1,119,000 iPhones sold in the quarter—but Apple also mentioned another tantalizing figure: 250,000. That’s the number of phones that they estimate were sold for the purposes of unlocking to date (out of the 1.4 million sold all year), or about 17% of all iPhones. They also noted that Apple doesn’t receive any money from AT&T for phones not activated on their network.

Seems to me that would explain the angry hue and cry raised at the 1.1.1 upgrade: that’s a lot of angry unlocked iPhone owners.

Comments (3)

Some of these 250k might be sitting around, waiting to be put under a tree, or stuffed into a stocking? Just a thought.

October 23, 2007
4:51 PM PT

Please tell me your post was littered with sarcasm. Please Please Please!!!!

Dummy
October 24, 2007
12:37 PM PT

Not all of us unlocked our iPhones for the purpose of hacking around AT&T phone service. Many (if not most) of us just wanted the third party saftware (before February). And I would say that Steve's numbers of hacked iPhones are low.

Anonymous
October 30, 2007
10:06 AM PT

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