Unlocked iPhones good for Apple?
From Market Watch:
Speaking at a Morgan Stanley technology conference, Oppenheimer said Apple wasn’t able to reliably establish the number on unlocked iPhones on the market during the last quarter of 2007. When Apple reported its results for that quarter, it said it had sold about 4 million iPhones, but the number of activated phones from its wireless carrier partners such as AT&T Inc. in the U.S. was far below Apple’s sales figures.
However, Oppenheimer said the unlocked phones, which do not generate recurring revenue for Apple, were a sign of “unprecedented demand,” and weren’t necessarily a bad thing for the company.
“We view it as a positive indicator of future demand,” Oppenheimer said.
This is good news, possibly stating that they won’t go after unlocked phones, meaning researching ways to disable the unlockability (is that a word?). At least I hope that is what this means!