Although there haven't been any official numbers announced yet, most analysts are saying that iPhone sales have hit the half million mark within the weekend, with approximately half of those switching from other carriers to AT&T.
This is approximately 5% of their sales goal of 10 million in their first year.
First-hand accounts of the iPhone seem to all confirm that the iPhone lives up to the hype. California is completely sold out except for the San Francisco Apple Stores, and I suspect those iPhones won't last the day. As for me, I'm waiting on a few more fixes.
In other Apple-related news, Universal is considering pulling their entire catalog from iTunes. I think that such a move would be more bad than good for Universal, but if Universal wants to shoot themselves in the foot, more power to them.
Here's why I don't think it'll happen: by leaking this information, it encourages those who were sitting on the fence about purchasing an Universal iTunes song to go out and do it. For those that want to get their music online, that will force people to resort to using the Universal music branded store or pirating it. From a Joe Average viewpoint, if I can't find it on iTunes, the last thing I'm going to do is try and figure out who the publisher is to purchase the music from.
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