“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.
Full article here.
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 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.
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.
You obviously haven’t used an iPhone. And you obviously have no idea how well they’re selling.
@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.
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
@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.
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.
@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”?)
@ 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.
“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.
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…
“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”…
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.
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?
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.
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.
Ah, the fanboys can only attack the messenger, not the facts.
@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.
@John,
Try actually stating a fact…
Sent from my German iPhone 3G
I don’t like the tone but I agree with John’s point of view. 120K iPhones in Germany over three months really does seem a little skimpy.
Germany is rich and tech savvy. I hope it’s just a matter of Apple completely maxing out their production runs to meet demand every where else.
Then again, when I lived there in the 70s & 80s, their telecom policies and regulations were downright prehistoric. (A tax on every radio in the house? Permission from the government to hook up a fax machine?)
Hopefully when big companies like SAP start using the iPhone, things will quickly turn around.
Fact: Apple hyped the iPhone 3G as the best thing since sliced bread, created massive expectation and demand, then spectacularly failed to meet that demand, dissapointing hundres of thousands, perhaps millions of customers wordwide.
But John if they are selling so few how comes they can’t keep up with demand? Do you know how many phones Apple have sold World wide this last couple months? Lets wait for the official figures shall we which by all sensible accounts will be huge. As for Germany they have always been the slowest in the uptake of iPods too and the last major market to be dominated by the itunes store. That market is by no stretch, of even your vivid imagination indicative of the general market for the iPhone. You can put that up any ass you like my friend.
The official figures from T-mobile for Germany have just been released – they are poor given what Apple could have sold had it got its shit together and actually put its money where its mouth was i.e. made enough phones for people to buy at a price they can afford.
iPhone 3G was oversold.
MobileMe was oversold.
iPhone 2 software was oversold.
Face up to the truth apple faithfull – Apple fracked up.
Spanish iPhone still not arrived, read it on wired:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/spanish-iphon-2.html