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Regardless of what you might have heard about the relationship between Apple and AT&T, the latter sure has several reasons to be happy. After posting its earnings, AT&T has announced that it activated 3.2 million iPhone units during the second quarter – a record for the company. It certainly helped its bottom line, too, which is its $30.8 billion in revenue for the quarter. Not too shabby given the whole iPhone 4 antenna debacle.
Of course, during that quarter, the majority of iPhone activations were for the older model, the 3GS, as All Things D reports:
AT&T’s Q2 numbers include six days of iPhone 4 sales, including a massive rush of pre-orders that the company says was 10 times greater than its 3GS pre-orders in 2009.
That’s not bad at all when most considered the hype for the iPhone 4 stale by the time it launched thanks to the leaks by Gizmodo.
It’s not all iPhone glory, however, as AT&T also says that 400,000-500,000 iPads were activated during the quarter. Apple’s iOS tablet sold 3 million during its first 80 days despite analysts saying that there was no market for a tablet computer. Again, Apple has just stomped all over expectations and has proven that it can certainly weather enough drama and push strong sales.
[Via: AllThingsD]
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Marc Flores
Marc has been a mobile fanatic for the better part of a decade and has had more devices pass through his hands than he would care to count. Originally from Los Angeles and briefly in San Francisco, Marc now lives in Brooklyn where, unlike Will Park, he longs for simpler times and simpler technology. All the while, he writes about gadgets and wireless technology as he tinkers, hacks and ultimately breaks most of his gadgets in the process. Marc has written about the mobile industry for Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Laptop Magazine and has had his work appear in the Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and more.
