Yet more analysts rubbish posted by macnn.. Why do they do it? "between 200,000 and 700,000 iPhones" This alone shows that analysts know precisely nothing. Yet macnn keeps posting this utter rubbish as news.

cuz i'm willing to bet the other major providers find a way to ramp up something that looks creepily similar to an iphone and runs on their networks. of course ms will issue a brown one.

... they made it, though. According to this blog ATT did activate more than a million iPhones during the week...

First off, theStreet is VERY Apple unfriendly, so to take an analysts opinion and make it a headline stating it as a "fact" is pretty piss poor on your part. Recently, I have noted a lot of the Macnn stuff that is trumpeted is often digs at Apple-- are you a pro-Apple site or some sort of Enderle/Dvorak chimera?

If Apple does sell over 500,000, will you have the guts to print an "oops?"

Rejoicing? That is like singing as the Titanic goes down...

Um, most people I know have service contacts, and I'm fairly certain everyones service contract did not end on June 29th. What these other wireless services should be worried about is the long tern bleed off. My service contact is up on September with Verizon, I want to hold out until the next iteration of the iPhone, but honestly, I'm not sure if I'll make it. One thing I can guarantee is that I will not be signing up for another commitment with verizon.

Whos the moron that writes these articles and who's the bigger idiot that actually posts them.

need I say more?

this is just more bull pucky here

the purpose is to piss you off...

and not inform readers of anything at all

so many better and informitive mac zellliot sites to visit

that have real news instead of this 'stinky substitute'

why are all apple related articles here NEGATIVE blatent attacks, WTF??

So, it's the 5th, and we are reading about a story which the rest of the mac press either mocked or ignored two days ago. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/july#tue-03-sales_mark http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13509_1-9739468-20.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheMacalope:AnAppleblog

Come on guys, try to keep up with the rest of the world. You know, post actual news.

As for my thoughts on the story, read my comment to the second link. I think I made my opinion clear there.

Macnn has s** with animals? According to recent analysts reports, it has been rumored that Macnn is having s** with small furry creatures.

Until we KNOW how many they sold, we will never know the full impact. But I agree above. If you have a goal, you produce enough to reach each. You cant hope to sell a million phones but only make 700k. IF they had a goal, they EXCEEDED it by selling out!

Did the person who wote this even CONSIDER the fact that Apple withheld some stock in order to be able to fulfill orders placed through its online store, as well as stock sold but not yet activated as part of ATT Stores' "direct fulfillment" program?

People who couldn't buy on Fri at ATT Stores were offered the opportunity to pay for their iPhone upfront and get it shipped directly to them. And, I'm sure, Apple sold a boatload of iPhones in their online store that can't be counted as sold until they ship. So, if there's a problem with the numbers it is because Apple didn't make enough, NOT that there wasn't enough demand for the iPhone.

Frankly, I suspect we'll find that when the dust settles, well over a million will have been sold by mid month when all the online orders start shipping.

Why does everyone rant against MacNN printing articles like this? I'm glad they do - the site gathers these articles about Apple, and puts them up without commentary. I see nothing wrong with that, especially for the price I pay for MacNN (none dollars, as John Madden might say).

One poster says MacNN printed the article like it was fact - I guess I have a different interpretation of the question mark at the end of the headline.

I find the article funny - I don't know if it reflects on "The Street" as a whole, or just on that particular writer, but I look at it as "grasping at straws" to find something negative in the iPhone launch.

P.S. I live in Oregon, the proud home of one of the only two Apple stores that still had iPhones in stock as of Wednesday night (Pennsylvania is the other). It'll be interesting to look over the store list and see if and when stores have iPhones available, and try to figure out how often the stores are re-supplied (yes, I need to get a life).

Why do they do it? "between 200,000 and 700,000 iPhones" This alone shows that analysts know precisely nothing. Yet macnn keeps posting this utter rubbish as news.

Why does it show they know nothing? "Analysts" is plural and thus indicates more then one analyst. So, of all the analysts predictions (which is what they all do, predict), the ranged from 200,000 to 700,000. Just as the article stated.

First off, theStreet is VERY Apple unfriendly,

All that means is that you think they're apple unfriendly, and that pretty much relates to the fact that they don't just roll over and drive the stock price to 15,000, call Steve Jobs the most innovative and greatest CEO ever, and not telling people to put all their money in apple.

(Yeah, that...)

Gotta think that the "analysts" are all wet again. Some reports have ATT activation over 1m. I received my "second batch" shipment today after doing the pre-order thing in sub'n Chgo last Friday, 10 p.m.

Apple is also shooting those "2-4 weeks" orders into the hands of new owners starting today...

So the other guys may have gotten their rocks off because each lost only about 40,000 customers a day since last Friday.

Now they're going to get slaughtered.

I find nothing wrong with the YouTube dl on Edge here in Chicagoland. Beats h*** out of spending an extra $15/mo for Verizon's crappy vcast. Just to watch crystal clear podcast video news (SAME DAY) was worth the money.

Well...lets see if you had a real provider like Verizon then I would guarantee that it would have sold out in 24 hours. Here in the northeast...there is no comparison to Verizon...ATT blows, Sprint - yea right..HEY APPLE - MAKE ONE FOR VERIZON - PLEASEEEEEE!!!!

I'm glad to cause we get to browse through c***-ola like this without have to go to "The Streets" site and give the idiot that wrote it a "Hit", only type of hit the writer of this article needs is with a louisville slugger to the side of the head.

guest: Have you bothered to look at the Nationwide Coverage maps for Verizon's EV-DO, vs. Cingular/AT&T's EDGE?

Oh, wait, you CAN'T! EV-DO coverage outside of major metropolitan areas is NON-EXISTENT, therefore NO carrier of EV-DO will show you a Nationwide EV-DO coverage map. It's just too embarrassing!

However, a trot over to the AT&T site shows a Nationwide EDGE map, which, unless you live in the NW (where NOTHING is!), is nearly completely covered. See for yourself:

http://www.wireless.att.com/support_static_files/images/maps/nat_gprs.gif

Now, keep in mind that, if Apple HAD gone with Verizon, your iPhone would have ZERO mobile internet/email service in MOST of the country, unless you were near a WiFi hotspot.

EDGE was the logical choice, and Cingular/AT&T has the best EDGE coverage, hands down.

@Guest: Thanks for that national coverage map - I hadn't seen one before. However, the colors on that one are a bit misleading - different shades of the same color to show coverage/no coverage? Lame. I created a different one that more clearly shows blacked-out areas at http://www.izzyweb.com/images/nat_gprs.jpg . Unsurprisingle, EDGE doesn't like deserts and mountainous areas.

I posted this elsewhere in response to an article on this article, but it's worth repeating.

Responding to the author of the original article does absolutely nothing except give him fodder for yet another boilerplate "ZOMG!! Mack Zelots ATaked Me!!!111" article. It matter not a whit whether your email/comment is an all-caps rant or a reasoned argument with footnotes, because it's clear that this analyst made a conscious decision to find a way to put a negative spin on Apple's success. You think maybe he sold Apple short?

More importantly is how editors and sites like MacNN have learned to cynically manipulate Mac users. By posting and reposting articles like this - which anyone with half a brain and minimal fact-checking skills can identify as wildly inaccurate - they know they're ensured n number of page views, where n is some number greater than the average number of page views. This is exactly the same as how the editors of the Weekly World News put Bat-Boy on the cover. The reason? Look at this MacNN page. Notice how much of it is dedicated to something other than content? MacNN gets paid whether you look at it or not. Every time you click on a link to an article filled with pointless drivel, a cash register rings somewhere. This kind of article is perfect: it generates a lot of traffic and - since it's meta-reporting on a piece of pointless drivel in the first place - requires no effort on MacNN's part. Perfect!

These kinds of analysts can not only withstand your derision, they thrive on it, because every time a site like MacNN links to their article, their editors say something along the lines of "Jesus! Did you see the traffic figures on Michael Hunt's last article? Utter fabrication, written in crayon and so off-topic he emailed it form Venus, but we're up 20 gazillion on our ad revenues this week! Send him more crayons!" Hence, Dvorak.

What these guys *can't* survive is being ignored. If you don't click on the link, then there's no reward for writing this c***. And MacNN gets no food pellet when they push on the "Post Drivel" bar, so they stop doing it too.

I know it's too much to hope for, but this would be my own little personal nirvana.

"Apple and ATT just sent a disemboweling blow across the cellular industry."

Agreed. Rob Enderle is literally apoplectic over the iPhone. In one of his articles he asks why someone would spend $6000 (no, you read correctly, not $600 but $6000) on the iPhone. He concocts the $6000 figure by adding up the cost of the iPhone plus the entire two year subscription with the most expensive plan. He routinely refers to the iPhone as the $6000 gadget.

Guys like Moritz and Enderle are beside themselves with anger and disbelief. It's really quite entertaining to watch this go down. I'm betting their clients weren't laughing when they saw AAPL launch into the stratosphere.