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T-Mobile: 120,000 Apple iPhones sold so far

Monday, August 25, 2008 · 8:36 am · 28 Comments

“Deutsche Telekom AG’s mobile phone unit T-Mobile has sold 120,000 iPhone mobile phones so far, of which 75,000 were sold in Germany alone, the unit’s Chief Executive Hamid Akhavan told weekly magazine Focus,” Dow Jones Newswires reports.

“Akhavan said that T-Mobile’s sales expectations have been surpassed and while Apple Inc.’s delivery problems had left customers waiting for their new mobiles, he expects the backlog to be cleared by the end of the month,” Dow Jones Newswires reports.

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MacMan

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 8:43 am · Reply

Somehow 75,000 in a population of 90 million doesn’t seem that good (verses 1 million in 3 days in a population of 300 million in the U.S.).

Surely they can do better than that…
Jersey_Trader

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 8:51 am · Reply

You would not know it by the coverage, but there was a multi-national roll out last Friday. We can here about actors in lines in Poland and that is about it.

It would have been good to get feedback from those vacationing in those countries.
john

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:07 am · Reply

Apple really screwed up with the iPhone 3G launch – the numbers are now showing how badly!

Dont beleive the hype.

MDN are so far up Apples ass it is untrue.
@john

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:19 am · Reply

You obviously haven’t used an iPhone. And you obviously have no idea how well they’re selling.
Randian

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:21 am · Reply

@john

Nice take, RIM job. You might want to consult your proctologist-on-call, however, before you post here again. Your scatalogical proclivities are nowhere near spot-on.
john

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:24 am · Reply

75,000 in nearly 3 months is nothing in a country the size of Germany.

Apple could have sold 3 times that amount if it hadnt fracked up the supply chain…. all we here is that stock will be sufficient by the end of the month, month after month after month

Apple is all about the hype
Randian

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:25 am · Reply

@john

Oh, I forgot to add . . . you might want to return to your local grammar school and brush up on your proofreading skills before tossing off at MDN’s take.

Dont ≠ Don’t
beleive ≠ believe
Apples ≠ Apple’s
untrue ≠ ????

You might also want to look up “puerile” in your community lexicon, old man. It describes your posting perfectly.
someone

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:26 am · Reply

75,000 in Germany is quite good. It took ‘em about 3 months with the EDGE-iPhone to get that far. And they could sell even more if there was enough supply. I disagree with John’s polemic remark, Apple is doing pretty well (despite the glitches) and with a bit more (software) polish, the iPhone 3G will be a holiday season bestseller. They will exceed their 10M goal by far.
Randian

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:29 am · Reply

@john, john, john . . .

When are you going to learn?

hadnt ≠ hadn’t
here ≠ hear

Seriously, how is anyone here supposed to lend credence to your argument if you can’t master the most rudimentary of English language skills? Tut-tut, old man. (Or should I say, “child”?)
Guest51

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:31 am · Reply

@ MacMan
“Somehow 75,000 in a population of 90 million doesn’t seem that good (verses 1 million in 3 days in a population of 300 million in the U.S.).

Surely they can do better than that…”

You’re right – they could do LOTS better than that – IF they’d quit screwing their customers with the world’s most expensive iPhone contract. T-Mobile Oesterreich (same company but right next door in Austria) has a much more reasonable contract. Apple should step in and take their distribution agreement back and assign it elsewhere.
john

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:39 am · Reply

“75,000 in Germany is quite good. It took ‘em about 3 months with the EDGE-iPhone to get that far. “

Well it has been nearly 3 months since the iPhone 3G launch and we are looking at the same numbers… which given the supposed advantages of the 3G compared to the EDGE iPhone isnt saying much!

Apple only have themselves to blame.
someone

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:41 am · Reply

As a german myself I might also add that the market for the iPhone in Germany is not as big as the number of 80M (btw) might suggest. German consumers tend to look for endless feature lists and/or low prices. They don’t get the value of “Ease-of-use” easily. Something as slick and stylish as the iPhone makes them suspicious (looks too elitist and toy-like). Additionally, T-Mobile is not everyone’s favourite carrier (and their tariffs are a bit on the juicy side).

MDN Magic Word: “small” as in: Dear John, what a small-minded attitute…
someone

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:44 am · Reply

“Well it has been nearly 3 months since the iPhone 3G launch…”

Okay, no need to argue anymore. You can’t even get the most simple facts right…

Oh, and sorry for “attitute”, should be “attitude”…
john

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 9:50 am · Reply

300,000 people signed up for information about the iPhone in Spain. Guess how many phones were available for sale on launch?

Less than 1,000

One and a half months later they are still nowhere to be seen. There are a lot of pissed of potential buyers here. I am one of them.

Apple fraked up. If you werent all so far up their ass you would see that.
therepguy

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 10:12 am · Reply

And to think, T-Moble USA had at one time a real shot at getting the iPhone here in America and turned it down!

Who would have through!

Didn’t T-Moble change it CEO A WHILE BACK?
CYxodus

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 10:15 am · Reply

Apple is selling the iPhone like you wouldn’t believe. I spoke with a rep from Alltel and I told him that once my contract was up next month, I was getting an iPhone. His response was that he understood and that the iPhone is a nice device. He also said that he would get one too if he could and then pulled out his iPod Touch and said how much he loved it.
Glad I'm not a john

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 10:29 am · Reply

Crude meaningless babble.
Doesn’t he have anything better to do with his life?
Only an idiot troll would come on a Mac fan site and accuse it of being bias.
john

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 11:03 am · Reply

Ah, the fanboys can only attack the messenger, not the facts.
Anonymous©

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 11:24 am · Reply

@CYx, Alltel sucks. They got $600 in two deposits from me, for a cheap cell and a PC card for my TiPB. They told me that the deposits would be returned as soon as my credit check came thru clean. Of course, they didn’t run a credit check, which would have come back with a FICO score of 790, but explained that their credit check was based upon a payment history. Since I had no payment history with them, they kept my deposits. After my contract was up, I reminded them to return my deposits. They said it would be returned automatically. After 4 months, I called again, and they said it would be returned within 60 days. It took over 6 months to get my deposits back, after I had to badger them. What a bunch of jerks. Alltel sucks.
gzero

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 11:54 am · Reply

@John,

Try actually stating a fact…

Sent from my German iPhone 3G