Feb 28
Don’t pay any attention to rumors and the lack of lines at Verizon and Apple stores at launch. Verizon’s CEO Daniel S. Mead is going on the record to tell you that the Verizon iPhone sold well. Real well. How well? He’s not really saying. The carrier is refusing to release any numbers (a rare thing for a briskly selling Apple product), but Mead went on record over at The Wall Street Journal to state that the handset had the biggest launch in carrier history.
According to Mead, the aforementioned lack of lines were due to robust online sales ahead of the device’s launch–more than 60 percent of iPhone 4 sales happened online, says Mead. It was all part of “an intentional strategy aimed at spreading out the purchasing activity,” adds the Journal. Hm. Sounds like Windows Phone 7 speak, doesn’t it?
Also interesting is Mead’s insistence that Apple will be launching different devices using 4G. He didn’t offer any specifics, of course, stating only, “You’ll see more coming from Apple on LTE. They understand the value proposition of LTE and I feel very confident that they are going to be a part of it.”
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