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2008-01-30, 08:21

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Originally Posted by cosus View Post
Still, I could never imagine people buying through those routes being very significant. I could imagine a small percent, but 25% just seems absurd.
Not if you consider how many 1st world countries still don't have the iPhone available for sale. Right now you can buy the iPhone in what, four countries? That leaves many other countries with GSM service and no locked iPhones to sell. Also, how many of the unlocked iPhones were sold to citizens of countries that now have iPhones available for sale, but didn't have them last Summer?

I think 25% is pretty reasonable although I would say more of these sales happened last Summer when the iPhone was USA only than are happening today. Also, Apple cracked down pretty hard on retail sales of iPhones last Fall, with the no cash sales policy and such.
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