Originally Posted by swajames

An interesting story, but I think BGR are making a number of extrapolations and logical leaps based on extremely limited data.

Before one could even begin to judge whether the actual sales numbers - from just five Apple stores - constituted good or mediocre results you'd need access to a significant amount of extra data.

For example:

How many units were in stock?
Did all of the available units sell out?
What were the expected sales numbers?
How did the Apple store sales numbers compare to AT&T and VZW sales numbers in the same locations?
How did the AT&T numbers look prior to the CDMA launch?

All of these - and more - would be needed to draw any remotely meaningful conclusions. As it stands, all we can see is that the VZW device outsold the AT&T device - something that let us not forget is still very much in demand - by around 30 to 40 percent. I'd guess VZW is far from unhappy with these numbers. You also need to remember that the VZW presale did not suffer from the the glitches that plagued the AT&T launch.

About the only reliable data point we've seen to date is Verizon's press release that confirmed that this has been its most successful device launch ever in terms of units shifted. As a publicly traded company discussing price-sensitive information, we can be sure that this at least is accurate.

Simply put, I'm reasonably confident that other carriers would have loved to have had similarly "disappointing" numbers as VZW.

Originally Posted by theonlychoman

Good points! I interpret these figures on the basis that most are waiting for the release of the iPhone5 (myself included).