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First off, I know it has been a while since my last post. I’ve been swamped with proposal deadlines, presentations and all other exciting things that keep a small business owner busy.

And secondly, although a little late, I thought this was an interesting little fact worth blogging about. AT&T reported a total of 146,000 total iPhones that got activated. But, according to Apple, they sold 270,000 units. Ok. So we have about a 124,000 iPhones floating around that have not been activated.

Hmmm. This prompted me to do my own sleuthing and here’s what I came up with:

1. Jon Lech Johansen, of DeCSS fame, cracked the iPhone within days that unlocked WiFi and iPod features without activation. Ok, so I’m sure there would account for at least 10-15% of the missing phones. That is about 18,600 guys that paid $500 bucks for a 8GB iPod with WiFi.
2. There are about 486 brand-new/unlocked iPhones on eBay. Let’s assume that eBay accounts for about 10% of all e-tailing sites. Another 5000 phones on such sites.
3. Let’s throw in another 10,000 units that were bought as pre christmas/birthday/giveaway gifts.

Ok. There’s still a whole bunch missing. Maybe this took 90,000 takes to get right.

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