Electronista reports, “The explosion can largely be credited to Android’s popularity in the US… Whether or not Google’s partners can sustain this level of production and challenge larger incumbents like Apple and RIM isn’t certain. Apple has over 600,000 iPhone 4 pre-orders just for its launch day and isn’t including walk-in sales or third-party retailers; it also is shipping only to several countries in June. Shipments should expand in July and through the rest of the year.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Surely when Steve Jobs feels the time is right to buy out AT&T’s exclusive U.S. stranglehold and get on with things, he’ll make his move, right? After all, losing 160,000+ per day to fake iPhones with long-term contracts (not to mention the fake app investments that will work to keep people from buying real iPhones someday) must have some future cost that will eventually negate all of the wonderful advantages that being shackled to AT&T Mobility brings to Apple and U.S. iPhone users. Seriously, Steve, you could open the iPhone up to multiple U.S. carriers and then just have every Apple salesperson punch each iPhone buyer in the mouth, if you like inflicting unnecessary pain on us so much. We’d take a one-time shot to the kisser in place of all of the wasted time, dropped calls, and needless frustration.
It sort of boggles my mind that Apple could only deliver 600,000 and next batch will take two weeks. I am guessing they can only make 300,000 a week. And that is a HUGE number. But Android makers can crank out more than a million a week? Impressive indeed. How come I never see any in the wild? Also where are the friggin lines? I mean that is nearly twice what Apple had on its wedding day. I don’t get why they are offering two for one price. Something does not fit.
So informative post this one, and if Google does claim some truth in it would be a bit too soon.
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Over the past dozen years, I’ve been with Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T;(in that order). The only one that really stood out was Sprint.
Sprint stands out because they were far and away the worst. My complaints with them have nothing to do with coverage area, dropped calls, or any technical issues. The customer service and billing were a nightmare. My bill was wrong every month, and every month I had to waste far too many hours trying to track down someone who could/would actually help me. I was very happy to leave Sprint for T-Mobile.
With T-Mobile, I had no complaints. The only reason I left T-Mobile was for the iPhone.
I have no real complaints with AT&T;. Yes, there are occasional dropped calls and weak signals, but no more than I had with Sprint or T-Mobile. 3G works well for me 99% of the time.
AT&T;has dropped the ball several times. They have made some big PR mistakes. However, in most instances, they’ve done decent damage control. In the end, I can’t complain.
Bottom line, given their size, I don’t see Verizon as very likely to offer an improvement over AT&T;. Cell networks are essentially commodities now. Handsets are the differentiator.
AT&T;was the only network several years back that was willing to cede control to Apple. As a result of their faith in Apple, AT&T;has been nicely rewarded with millions of new customers.
If the iPhone ever makes it to another US carrier, cool. I’m a shareholder, and happy to see more potential sales. However, I’m unlikely to switch, because I have no problem with AT&T;. I think Apple, and most consumers see things similarly.
Finally, what’s the point? Apple can’t even keep up with demand for the iPhone on one network, let alone two. From a business standpoint, it makes no sense for Apple to look at another carrier right now. AT&T;is delivering Apple all the handset sales they can handle. Once Apple can offer adequate (way more) supply, it MIGHT make sense to look at another carrier. For now, I think Jobs and Apple certainly know what they ate doing.
They say 160,000 DEVICES activated not phones.
(“Every day 160,000 Android-powered devices are activated”)
Do they put Android on other things besides phones?
If you count iOS DEVICES then you’ll have to add iPod touches (which have millions of sales) and iPads.
Could it be that deliveries to carrier distribution is being counted (stock) instead of retail purchases. The scientologists do this to keep LR Hubbard’s books on the charts.
Lots of commenters here-abouts forget a key fact…
Apple has product roadmap plans and contingencies that go out at least 10 years.
Apple WILL be in Verizon as soon as their contract with ATT allows it. Why? The minute iPhone goes on the Verizon network, the number of Androids sold by Verizon is going to drop like a rock, probably in half.
Jobs, Ives & Crew know that and are WAY ahead of the comments here.
You guys are nuts, are they really selling 160,000 per day? Only the telcos know and certainly not goog for all you know they are relying on NDP survey info.
Get off the high horse you guys are riding and believe one thing the paradigm is not one of Apple vs MS, it is one of bottom-line and shareholders’ interest.
@ HughB
> It sort of boggles my mind that Apple could only deliver 600,000 and next batch will take two weeks.
What are you talking about… 600,000 is the number Apple set aside for pre-orders. They have the majority of initial iPhone 4’s in inventory (way above and beyond the 600,000) at all the retail locations, ready for first few days of sales. Some have estimated that Apple sell in excess of 2 million by the end of the first weekend.
tip for slashman quit coming to this site and trashing it. Just GO
This is good news for consumers. Competition drives innovation. For as long as there is serious competition to the iPhone, Apple will be driven to improve it.
We should not hope for Apple to win outright and gain a monopoly. Monopolies lose their way and cease to innovate. For as long as Apple are challenged, we will all benefit.
I don’t think there’s much likelihood of apple getting a monopoly any time soon anyway. Fanboy paranoid delusions aside, while you can close your eyes, dig you head in the sand and wish, wish, wish real hard a story like this out of the bounds of credulity and into blissful ignorance, the fact remains, 160k android devices per day is quite a significant number. While I am ambivalent toward android, it is not something to be dismissed offhand as a challenger to iOS. Its real and its growing. Will apple be too concerned? I don’t think so because they have- in Jobs Reign 2.0- always targeted the profitable end of the market. It’s if android centric devices start eating into that that apple should be concerned.
Just one thing to add here:
Devices are more than just phones. I believe he is talking about phones + tablets + PMPs + whatever people put Android on nowadays. I also believe that he is exaggerating because he knows noone can check his claim, but that’s just my personal opinion.
80,000 smartphones
40,000 other devices
40,000 made up by Andy Rubin
I have read a number of these articles about the 160000 Android devices per day.
They all start off the same, with the headline that Google has 160000 Android activations per day.
Does that include activations after an upgrade? Activations after a factory reset when the Android phone malfunctions?
Android activations then gets changed to Android device activations.
An important distinction as they are not the same.
Finally Android device activations then gets changed to Android device sales, different again and probably total bullsh*t.
It seems really fishy that Google uses the word activations rather than sales.
It could be a post developer coferemce phenomonon. I know several people who were holding out on getting their next verizon phone to see if they could get an iPhone. After the iPhone 4 showed no sign of verizon in the short term, these people re-upped at verizon for one more cycle. Google is taking advantage of this momentary surge to brag about sales as though these numbers were sustainable.
Tempus:
This is bigger than Verizon or the American market. AT&T;is activating 30,000 iPhones per day. Those people that used to be waiting for a Verizon iPhone and now start buying Droids couldnt possibly add 60,000 daily activations to the Android camp.
it seems all of this is BS.Where i Live in fort lauderdale the 2 major verizon shop are always empty where the 3 apple store in the vicinity have a massive frequentation
Being an apple fan i pay a visit to a verizon store to see the famous iphone killer “the incredible”…are you kidding me…?
How can we even try to compare this to an iphone?
when i said to the seller i’m an iphone guy the guy understood game was over and the guy told me he is praying for the iphone to come to verizon
For the rest it seems we have no picture of people queuing in the street for android phones….!!!
My neighbor is getting a new Iphone today. He has had a first gen Iphone for some time, gets his e-mails, has hundreds of contacts on his phone, i.e. he runs his business on his Iphone. He’s on the road from the Canadian border as far east as Spokane and as far south as Portland. He says he has been very happy with AT&T;day in day out.
With this kind of endorsement, I’m thinking the $99 Iphone may be the one for me as my T-mobile contract is up then.
@Back2mac
Finally, what’s the point? Apple can’t even keep up with demand for the iPhone on one network, let alone two.
Sure they can. They’re not guessing how many to make.
Apple has a ten-year history of trend analysis for iPod, and lately, iPhone, tracking the metrics of 310,000,000 of these devices to date. They could probably predict within a month, when a particular model will fail.
What is painfully obvious is, they cannot predict the public’s response during the introduction phase of a new product, but let’s not kid ourselves, Apple has the financial resources to open several more factories.
MDN,
Are you saying that Apple should be like all the other companies like Google, Microsoft, GM, Toyota, Walmart, McDonald’s? Those that want to flood markets with their products? Is that what you want Apple to do???
MDN you really seem to be getting overly hysterical at times. Visit Ye Olde Apothecary for a soothing barley water tonic and learn to relax a bit more. Watch a bit of tennis on the Beeb.
I really hope Apple never goes to Verizon. May this server as a lesson for Verizon.