Then he says that only 40% agreed to share sales numbers (which is about 20 stores). I’m sorry, but that’s not a very good sampling. But even then he says “33% of stores reported sales of 10-20 units, with 16% reporting 20-30.” And what about the other 51% of the stores? I guess they are either selling less than 10 or more than 30 units per week. Even given his small statistical sampling, lets say that they are selling 20 phones a week. With 13 weeks in a quarter, the 1500 stores will sell 20×13x1500 = 390K phones in the first quarter. That doesn’t take into account the fact that first and second week sales far exceeded that or that Sprint actually has 20,000 distribution points that go way beyond the 1500 stores (See http://www.busi...ts_store_c.html). Many people will go to Best Buy, Radio Shack, mall Kiosks, etc to purchase their Pre to avoid the rebate issue. And soon these should be available online! And the Pre is now becoming available through numerous Wal-marts(http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=11084519). So, will Sprint sell a million Pre’s in the first quarter? I have every reason to believe they will.

And second, don’t pretend like the US is the only place with phone contracts. You don’t HAVE to have a contract to buy any of these phones, but you play a premium to get them. Go check O2s website. It works the same way. You pay full price for a phone with no contract, or you get heavy discounts for accepting a contract. Do a little homework before you come on the “interwebz” to throw down, or at least take your head out of your ass.

There is no way that Palm could have kept up with demand close to that of the iPhone and knew it. Even Apple is now stating that there maybe shortages in the near future do to supply problems. The fact is that Apple had those phones ready to ship when they announced, Palm didn’t. I really wonder how many people were put off by the fact that the phone wasn’t in stock.

As far as this “study”, any study can be fixed to get the outcome you are looking for. All it would take is focusing on smaller markets or where Sprint has the lowest amount of members. Plus talking to a Rep on a phone is really going to give you great results. In most cases they will lie one way or another. I’m sure you could do the same with Apple stores and get the same results. For example I’ve been in both the local sprint stores and they were sold out with a waiting list they said was at around 30. Been to two Best Buys and they also were sold out with waiting lists. One rep at BB pulled out the list and it was around 5 pages and there seemed to be between 15 to 20 per page. I asked them if they had any iPhones and he pointed to one of the locked storage bins and said it was full. I would really be surprised if the Apple numbers are based on retail sells and wouldn’t be surprised if it was a million shipped.

What Apple doesn’t want you to know is how many iPhone 3Gs they sold in the U.S.A. alone. Because the 1,000,000 units of iPhone 3Gs accounts for the 8 countries they were sold in during it’s first release.

Meanwhile, Palm Pre was only released in one single country (US) to already hit 400,000 units sold! Do your math and see what 15,000 units manufactured per day means in several months.

If we were to use the iPhone 3G’s sales last year for reference, then these countries would have included in the order of highest to lowest sales: US (600k), Japan (70k), Germany (69k), France (67k), Spain (55k), UK (29k), Canada (16k), and Mexico (15k).

Using the value above and assuming there are a potential 600k users in the US alone willing to buy and can afford smartphones in this bad ecomony, consider this estimate:

If Palm Pre sold 400k units this year in the US alone, then iPhone 3Gs may have only sold 200k or certainly less than the units Palm Pre sold in the US. If Apple had been proud to announce the number of iPhone 3Gs sold, why don’t they disclose exactly how many they sold in the US alone? Then you can compare apples to apples.

Considering Apple only has 200 apples retail stores across the country against Sprint’s 4000 retail stores nationally (not to mention Best Buys, Radio Shack, and Wallmart stores), it’s no wonder Apple has to combine all 8 countries to form a total of 1 million units sold to look good for the public.

Anyway, Palm Pre is set to sell to Europe and the UK now, so you’ll get a better picture of just how successful Palm Pre sales really are doing. 400,000 now..several million more in the pipeline for the next 7 countries for comparison.

Ah, so the meaning of living independently, getting laid here and there and having real lives and a real job etc., is for an iPhone? and you call that ‘Cool’?

Thats interesting!!

http://www.walm...ack/ip/10807294

Funniest part was most broke their AT&T contracts and sold thier iphones on ebay to do so.

NEVER assume…