“AT&T Inc. sold almost all its initial stock of Apple Inc.’s iPhone within hours of the device going on sale, an AT&T spokesman said on Saturday,” Reuters reports. “An Apple spokesman was not immediately available to comment on the number of iPhones sold at its 162 U.S. outlets.”
“‘Virtually all of our stores sold out of the iPhone last night,’ AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said, declining to specify how many units had been sold,” Reuters reports.
“AT&T… runs about 1,800 stores in the United States,” Reuters reports.
Asked about problems that some iPhone buyers were having with activating their phones, Siegel said the “vast majority” of customers were able to begin using their phones within minutes,” Reuters reports. “‘There are some whose activation process is being delayed and that’s something that can happen in a launch like this and we’re resolving those on a case-by-case basis,’ Siegel said.”
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Yes, the bloodbath has commenced.