“The jury is still out on whether Apple Inc.’s iPhone will be a commercial success, Verizon Wireless’ General Counsel Steve Zipperstein said Wednesday,” Dow Jones reports. “Testifying before a House Telecommunications Subcommittee hearing into the future of the wireless industry, Zipperstein acknowledged that the company was approached by Apple before AT&T Inc. was about being the exclusive supplier of phone service for the new device. ‘We didn’t view it as the right opportunity for us at that time,’ he said.”
“Zipperstein said that it was too early to tell whether the iPhone would ultimately be a success in the market,” Dow Jones reports.
“‘Despite the hype about the iPhone in the media over the last couple of weeks, the product has only been available for the last 10 days,’ said Zipperstein. ‘The jury is still out and we will have to see how the market reacts.’ According to reports, nearly 1 million iPhones have been sold in its first 10 days. Apple has set a public target of selling 10 million devices by the end of the year,” Dow Jones reports.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple has set a public target of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008, not by the end of this year. Apple has not reported any iPhone unit sales figures to date.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Dion” and “Mike in Helsinki” for the heads up.]
Must be OJ’s jury.