According to news reports, AT&T, which has set up this area to allow consumers to request notification of the iPhone’s availability, has received a million consumer requests for same. In a world of 233 million US cell phone users (CTIA numbers), that’s a tiny fraction of the population.
But since its unveiling the iPhone has already dramatically impacted the market, causing handset makers to consider and implement new designs and intensifying an industry wide conversation about mobile phone/mobile Internet usability.
We’ll see what happens when it hits in June.
March 28, 2007 at 8:49 am
But how many of this people will really buy the iPhone this year?
June 29, 2007 at 12:45 pm
[…] By earlier this March a million people (2/3 of whom aren’t AT&T subscribers) had asked to be notified of the iPhone’s […]
September 4, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Now that the price is lower it’s more w/in their reach.