According to the good folks at DigiTimes, Apple wants fewer of the CDMA iPhone varients because they just haven’t been selling.
Pegatron originally expected to ship 10 million CDMA iPhone 4s in 2011, but sources from upstream component makers pointed out that Apple’s orders already saw a significant reduction and the volume is estimated to drop to only five million units.
When the Verizon iPhone first was launched, a number of commenters (myself included) told Verizon customers to wait on buying an iPhone because it was late in the product cycle, and to expect a hardware refresh in June. Now, it’s looking like that might not happen until Fall, but I wonder if the poor sales aren’t due to people waiting for the next edition of the iPhone, rather than one which launched when it was already nine-months old?
[via AppleInsider]
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Yeah, that and the fact that there were four tier one Android phones released in the 10 months prior to the iPhone launch putting most of VZW’s existing iPhone demographic right in the middle of their current NE2 contracts. At a non subsidized price of $650 for the 16gb model, I think most people just decided to wait.
Not to mention that I think everyone overestimated how many AT&T defectors there would be!!
AT&T made some very smart moves, one of the smartest thing they did was allow their customers unlimited calls to any mobile phone as long as you have unlimited text.
Yeh who would want to buy a cdma phone. they would be crazy to buy one…