Apple estimates number of unlocked phones

by Dan Moren
If 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.
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