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Apparently Apple sold 3.75 million iPhones in 2007 however AT&T has only activated 2 million iPhone accounts. So what happened to that missing 1.75 million? According to Forbes it’s estimated a majority of those unaccounted for iPhones were probably hacked, unlocked and probably in use on some other network. That’s nearly half of all iPhones! Obviously there’s a problem with the one carrier option that Apple and AT&T rolled out with. Apple hopes to reach it’s goal of selling 10 million iPhones in 2008 - a very aggressive goal which they might be able to reach, but losing the extra revenue on the service plans has to be killing them. While AT&T was critical in helping Apple launch the iPhone It’s clear the long term business model is not sustainable and I doubt making users signup for an AT&T plan at point of purchase will go over well with consumers.

Yesterday was MacWorld Expo 2008 San Francisco and as was speculated by mac rumor specialists Apple released a new notebook called the Macbook Air. It’s a super sleek machine weighing in at 3 pounds. It has a 13.3 inch screen, and it’s 3/4 of an inch thick. It’s so thin folks it even fits into an envelope!

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