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Remember the story from 3 days ago -- that would be a minimum pre-order of 1 to 1.5 million iPhones per Russian carrier. Times 3 carriers. By October. That's a heckuva lotta channel fill and will probably lead to achieving the 10 million goal in the current quarter alone. Incredible stuff.

Aug 21, 08 - 02:20 pm Comment from: Lurker_PC

Assuming the U.S. is still talking to Russia that is.

Peace.

GPS would be quite handy when you're invading other countries.

Aug 21, 08 - 02:24 pm Comment from: JAYGEE

Tell Russia that they don't get the iPhone till they pull out of Georgia

Aug 21, 08 - 02:26 pm Comment from: theloniousMac

Cool. If the Russian Military starts using iPhones, their communications will be crippled!

Maybe they're just Putin us on.

I'm very disapointed. Why is Allpe doing business with these barbars.

"GPS would be quite handy when you're invading other countries".

as in iraq & afghanistan?

Hey! Why is everyone talking about Russia and Georgia? The issue is Ossetia, a region that wants independence from Georgia. Why don't the Ossetians deserve self-determination? The Albanians were supporter, along with a lot of others during the past 15 years. I'm not advocating either side, but isn't it convenient that as al-queda's threat seems to fade, the new nemesis is Russia? Also, a week before the Georgian crisis, talk of a renewed co-operation between Russia and Cuba ended in the US saying Any type of Base in Cuba would be al provocation and unacceptable. Now Poland gets missile defense and Georgia will join Nato. Who's provoking who?

Aug 21, 08 - 03:01 pm Comment from: ron

Give Ras - Putin one which has been bricked.

Aug 21, 08 - 03:03 pm Comment from: ron

On the side of the head.

If the launch date is true, this could really reinvigorate the meaning of all those October references everywhere in Russia (October Street, 40 Years of October Park, etc).

Bolshevik revolution, meet iPhone.

Lenin must be turning in his grave... er, mausoleum.

"If the launch date is true, this could really reinvigorate the meaning of all those October references everywhere in Russia (October Street, 40 Years of October Park, etc)."

And if Apple makes colored models, there would be a hunt for red in October.

Will you be trying to close the deal with an old school Blackberry or a "status symbol".

This says it all.

GAME OVER!

For all you anti-Russia folks, here are a couple of articles worth reading:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/19/opinion/edgreenway.php

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/18/europe/assess.php

In Soviet Russia...

...iPhone owns YOU and your country!

@MichaelMac

Who says al-queda's threat has seemed to fade? Why because you don't see them in the headlines daily? I guess MI6 and the CIA's spec ops teams decided not to include you in their daily briefings. Go figure. Try europol, maybe they will personally give you a sitrep if you ask nicely.
Their threat is still extremely real and the war against them continues.

Aug 21, 08 - 04:24 pm Comment from: Jim - TIV

It's not about Ossetia. It's about the oil being carried to Western Europe from Iran that goes though? Guess where? Ossetia!

Yup, that's right kids. Russia now controls the delivery of a major portion of the oil supply for western Europe.

Russia is not supporting Ossetia to help them win their independence from their Georgian overloards. It's about oil, and who controls it.

@Olternaut
Don't Believe the hype. The US and Bush already complied with Bin Ladin's ultimatum years ago, namely no Us troops in Saudi Arabia. Look it up and chill out, pause for some reflection.

Aug 21, 08 - 06:03 pm Comment from: Anonymous©

Medvedev, Putin's puppet, already has an iPhone.

Russias been a bit naughty recently. They arn't worthy, cancel that order Apple.

Aug 22, 08 - 02:26 am Comment from: MacSheikh

Mother Russia, here i(Phone) come!

Oh, and the US telling Russia to be behave and be a responsible citizen of the world? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Saying "the pot calling the kettle black" would be the biggest understatement of the century!

To those who are ignorant here:

1) Georgia's "young democracy" grew its military budget $1 billion, bought through Mr.Bush's administration mountains of weapons, attacked South Ossetia, breaking 1992 peace agreement.

Now, how is that Russia is the guilty here? Russia's troops in Georgia are legal as the country is mandated guarantor of peace and of course they had to suppress "democratic" aggression.

According to Mr.Bush, "Democracy" is bombs for sleeping Tskhinvali, city of South-Ossetia. USA's citizen who was there at the time of Georgia's invasion said Mr.Bush should resign and compared his "ally" Georgia's actions' to Saddam Hussein's.

2) Russia's military does not need GPS phones since it operates the only other (beyong GPS) acting global positioning system, its own.

My regards to DenisRS.
Well done, man!