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Apple Sells One Million iPhones in Three Days

Man, Toni S, do you post any real facts on any articles on Seeking Alpha?? You go from post to post and bash. I thought that Bernstein would have policies that would ban analysts from posting bashing comments. Bernstein should have fired you a while back since you have yet to hit any "estimate" that you provide on AAPL. So far your batting average is still a goose egg.

Could iPhone Subsidies Be Apple’s Ticket to Mainstream USA?

I think the bar graph you have is null and void. This data was before the iphone became iconic. I bet you would see the same results if you asked people how much they would pay for an ipod before it was released. People only understand how great the iphone is after it was released, not before, so now they can save the $200 they would spend on an ipod, and add that to their purchase of an iphone.