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Originally Posted by p-slim
I also don't agree, every hyped phone lately has been selling. The incredible, was on back order for like 2 months, the evo, and now the iPhone 4. My brother is an iPhone lover and he has to get in line at midnight and probably still won't get one, I don't know if you're aware of the iPhone pre order fiasco. He had one on reserve now he doesn't. The iPhone will be on back order also, there's nothing anyone can do about this.
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Man lets be real here, in terms of sales it wont even be close. The iphone had 600,000 pre-orders in a matter of a couple of hours. My point is NOT having phones available IS a major downfall for both sprint AND at&t. Had they had enough phones available they could have gotten quite a few more sales than they will get now. Just wait until they start running those ios4 commercials and the evo will be buried in the 1 am time slots.
And there is a BIG difference when you have over a million people trying to pre-order a phone and it being on backorder as compared to a couple of hundred thousand. Hell we STILL really dont know what the real numbers are and its been almost a month now. And lets not forget, its not as if AT&T NEEDS new customers the way Sprint does. That aspect of it is NOT a level playing field. This is why the iphone being on backorder wont affect at&t the way not having evo's will sprint.. because with that iphone we all know they will get huge sales regardless so they dont care about backorder. But with this phone there was a window that SHOULD have been used more wisely than it was.. especially since you have that droid X in the mix for Verizon next month too.
There is just no way you can tell me that Sprint wouldnt have gotten more sales had they had more units available than they will after tomorrow.