Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 20 January 2008 13:03 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> IPhone's UK sales disappoint
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote
>>>| The paper says that between Apple, O2 and the Warehouse, only about 190,000
>>>| handsets were sold in the first two months against a target of 200,000.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/19/iphone-uk-sales-disappoint
>>>
>>> Maybe Apple engineers should have just with Linux (they were going to).
>>
>> I wonder whether this target was set before or after the very
>> disappointing sales. Personally, I find it slightly surprising that as
>> many as 190,000 people were willing to pay so much money for a 2.5G
>> phone when there are so many excellent 3G phones out there.
>
> There are many Mac users out there and that's just their missing fashion
> accessory. Good luck to the iPhone, but it's going to need luck when those 3G
> Linux phones reach the wide market and get given away almost for free (ads
> will cover expenses over time).
>
It was a very strange decision to produce a product so dated and expect
to sell it to the world's most sophisticated mobile market. All I can
imagine is that Apple were so US centric that they had no idea how far
behind the US mobile market is.
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