“Investors might be interested to know whether this really did hurt sales,” Fool TV reports. “Fool analyst Rex Moore says we’ll find that this brouhaha had almost no effect. He did some channel checks, and nearly two months after its launch, the iPhone 4 is still hard to find. New units are only trickling in to AT&T and Best Buy stores, and they tend to sell quickly. Things aren’t much different at Wal-Mart, and Apple’s online store is quoting three weeks for shipping.”
Fool TV reports, “The bottom line is that ‘Antennagate’ had no material effect on sales. A more likely damper could come in the form of these supply constraints. Investors should hope to see some phones flooding into stores in the next month or so before the holiday season hits.”
Read the full article and watch the video (if you can, it’s foolishly Flash-only), here.
MacDailyNews Take: Two for two: Antenna FUD fails to dent iPhone sales – again.
MacDailyNews Note: Ask the Motley Fool why they are foolishly ignoring 100+ million iOS users by using Adobe’s exclusionary, closed, proprietary Flash for their online video here.
