“About 40 percent of the roughly 1 million people who have asked AT&T Inc. about iPhone are not already wireless customers, the telephone company’s Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said on Tuesday,” Reuters reports.
The very brief report is here.
AT&T ought to send all of the other U.S. carriers defibrillators as a professional courtesy.
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Word up. I just want my July option calls to make me money so I can buy a few iphones.
That’s more than likely true as I am not a mobile phone user and I have been wanting more information on the iPhone. So yeah.
First time mobile phone users will be buying an iPhone? I find that hard to beleive, anyone in who doesn’t have a mobile phone in 2007 is either very old, very young or just plain un-technical. I just can’t see iPhone fitting that demo.
This is a baseless announcement. I enquired with ATT on the site after the announcement – I was never asked whether I had a phone, I just filled in the form with my name and e-mail address. They don’t know I’m on Sprint unless they have access to Sprint’s customer list – which I’m sure they don’t. So maybe 40 percent are not ATT customers.
@Pete
at last some common sense
@Pete
at last some common sense
@Pete
at last some common sense
@Pete
at last some common sense
In other words, people who are NOT locked into existing contracts… like so many FUDsters love to carp on and on about.
Ummm… said nothing about “first-time”. There are probably (like me) many people that might have a prepay phone or don’t feel a compelling need for a phone – now. US phone uptake is smaller in the US than other places, despite lower prices, especially compared to income. There’s still a lot of room in that market.
I think they mean, “they are not our mobile clients”
AT&T ought to send all of the other U.S. carriers defibrillators as a professional courtesy.
One of the best MDN Takes ever!!!!!!!!!
I don’t see how that can be true.
Common sense is not so common.
iPhone to target a previous unheard of 400,000?
I don’t beleive it.
It’s more like 400,000 that are not already AT&T customers or some sort of glitch. Perhaps hacked results?
We Mac users are good at inflating the numbers. ;P
“US phone uptake is smaller in the US than other places”
Wow moment.
Pete…
Oh really? Or perhaps there are some of us who don’t see a need to waste money every month to be available every waking moment. People have become slaves to their cell phones…. some of us just want to be left the f___ alone.
iPhone will appeal to the very old, very young and just plain un-technical. Of course, nobody will buy it for the very young, but the other two groups will jump on it.
Pete:
I do not have mobile phone, and I am not in any of your stereotype’s categories.
How about
1) I live in the boonies, so everyone’s coverage, and Cingular/ATT in particular, is poor to nonexistant.
2) I had a mobile phone – it was not a good value for money proposition to me.
3) I value my privacy – just because you want to talk to me does not mean that I want to talk to you. Send me an e-mail – I will respond when I want to.
For those of you not familiar with American English, “boonies” is short for “boondocks”. The online Mac dictionary definesthat as “rough, remote, or isolated country : we’re out here in the boondocks, miles from a telephone.
How appropriate!!!!
“common sense is not so common” uh that was Voltaire, not Oscar Wilde
“AT&T: 40% of the 1 million iPhone inquirers not mobile clients”
Further research shows that twenty percent are middle-age shut-ins growing mold in a recliner watching Dukes of Hazzard reruns with dysfunctional Life Alert monitors and the other twenty percent are government informants encased in cement.
Oscar, you biter.
Piss off. It’s the absinthe talking.
Question: If you have an existing contract with Cingular, will a wrap around contract be required to get an iPhone?
Can I plop down my money and buy an iPhone to go with my existing Cingular contract?
I called Cingular. If you have an existing contract, they will move you to a new contract with the iPhone and your two year handcuffs start once again.
Great…..most people asking about iPhone live under a rock….
Another Kool Aid drinker stat gonna blow up in Apple’s face.
How much to do professional bloggers make? I could do better job than this.
Just my $0.02
They mean that “About 40 percent of the roughly 1 million people who have asked AT&T Inc. about iPhone are not already AT&T Wireless customers”
I plan on taking a stroll on down to the AT&T store on 21st (or maybe it’s 20th?) between Market and JFK here in Philly next Friday night. I want to see the pandemonium!
“anyone in who doesn’t have a mobile phone in 2007 is either very old, very young or just plain un-technical. “
Absolutely, totally wrong. I’m middle-aged, a software developer, and I hate carrying a leash. My wife has one, each of my sons has one, and I refuse. But the iPhone is making me think about it.
“Piss off. It’s the absinthe talking.” uh… that was Zola, not Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde said “I have nothing to declare but my penis.”
Maybe what they meant was 40% of the 1 million iPhone inquirers not mobile internet clients (they do not use their phone for data)
Botvinnik, that was not Oscar Wilde either, that was John Bobbit. Oscar said “I have nothing to <b>share<b> but my penis”, usually when he was in a room full of men.
qka and Skinny Mac,
You are exceptions, certainly not the majority..
This is exactly why all the attention on the physical versus on-screen keyboard is overblown (and FUD). If 40% of the people interested in the iPhone do not already use a mobile phone, whether a “chicklet” keyboard is better or worse than the iPhone on-screen keyboard is irrelevant. Add to that 40%, another 40% who are probably replacing their current “cheap” (not “smart”) phone. Most of the people interested in iPhone will have no basis for comparing the iPhone’s on-screen keyboard to anything else. And they won’t be making their buying decision based on the keyboard.
The argument always is” people can’t, won’t don’t, shouldn’t, couldn’t, wouldn’t…. Then, ultimately, people DO anyway, end of argument.
FUD really is FUD.
Comprehension of the English (or American – lol!) language not so strong with some of you folks is it?
Whilst I agree it is ambiguous, the way the sentence is written in that report (which just goes to show how pathetic the standards in “journalism” are these days) it could be comprehended as “40% of the enquiries are not wireless customers of ANY carrier (i.e. they don’t even own a mobile phone yet), or you could comprehend it as “40% of the enquiries are not wireless customers of AT&T (i.e. AT&T are bragging that they are going to be gaining these people from other carriers).
As most of the cynics have pointed out it is UNLIKELY that people that have never owned a wireless mobile device will choose the iPhone as their first dip into the “medium”, and so I wonder why the cynics couldn’t then conclude that the likely way to COMPREHEND the statement was the 2nd interpretation, which is the AT&T is bragging that 40% of the people after an iPhone from AT&T aren’t YET AT&T customers.
This would be similar to Apple pointing out that 50% of the Mac purchases in their retails stores are to people that have never owned a Mac before!?
It is amazing that these people are so vehmently sure that the first interpretation is false, yet fail to be able to recognise that as a result there is a perfectly reasonable answer in just reading and comprehending the sentence in a different way.
my 2 cents,
Luke
MW – things – as in we only see THINGS the way that suit our arguements and biases
Tyk,
right! I’m neither very young nor very old, and have never owned, and never will own, a cell phone,
I relish my peace and quiet.
Moreover, people who are at peace with themselves don’t need the superficial comfort of continual petty conversation.
I’ve listened to enough cell-phone conversations, thank-you, and my emotional reaction to them wavers betwen contempt and pity.
Pete.
you belong to the mindless majority, and find comfort in the fact that you do what most other people do.
Well then, go buy yourself a PC, and you’ll really feel at home in the world.
What are you doing here! Mac-users are a small minority.
@ Toby Belch,
You sure are full of yourself, aren’t you? Your superiority complex is entertaining at best.
I could not agree more with Luke & Toby. This is WHY people in general are clueless. They just go with the flow and NEVER use their own brains to think for themselves. Whats even more bizarre is these people who just keep talking and answering these phones everytime they ring, no matter where they are. I mean come on now, do you really need to answer the phone when you are on the toilet? Or do you really need to answer the phone when you are eating? What ever happen to arriving at home and seeing you have messages on your answering machine or missed calls on your caller id? Has life gotten that important for you that you have to answer the phone EVERY SINGLE TIME it RINGS? If you answer this question “YES”, you are a moron!! At no time in my day will I answer the phone if it will in anyway disturb someone else’s peace. That is, take your stupid conversation to yourself in private!! Oh and use some intelligence by answering your phone, “hello” or whatever GREETING is common from your demographic. Not something like “Word Up” or “Yeah”, as these are mere signs of your even more decreasing intelligence level!! So in the end, just because we have a cellphone does not mean we are enslaved to it like the majority of people that have one. What in the world has the universe come to? Take some time to breathe, smell the FLOWERS, look into the wonderous sky, take a walk, tell whoever is calling you more then 1 time per day for nothing meaningful, to shut the heck up and get off your phone!! After all it is YOURS!!
as for only nontechnical people not having cell phones, I am very technical and the cell phone I have is never charged. I got it 2 years ago for a trip and so my sister could have one on my account. I don’t ever use it. I don’t want people being able to bug me whenever they want. Its for emergencies – but I charge it and then the charge goes down before it is ever used again.
I will get an IPhone (when the next version comes out) but I will use the IPhone as my home phone and actually check my voice mail. If someone wants to talk to me, they call me at home or work or email me. But that will change when I get the iPhone, but I probably will set it to go directly to voicemail most of the time.