The lack of appeal in AT&T will be one of the biggest unknowns as the product rolls out.
Stephenson said AT&T would restrict sales to a single phone per buyer. Jobs said Apple planned to limit sales to two per customer, and Mr. The telephone company has added about 2,000 extra employees in an effort to handle what it expects will be large crowds, he said. “I think it’s going to be an exciting evening, to be honest with you,” Mr. Changing forecasts in the consumer electronics industry is difficult because of the long lead times necessary to build components such as semiconductors, he said. “We’ve certainly built a lot of iPhones, although it may not be enough,” Mr. Lines have begun to form in some parts of the country, but there is still uncertainty over whether a $500 to $600 consumer product can attract millions, rather than tens of thousands, of early customers.
at Apple and AT&T stores.īoth executives said they were still not certain what to expect at their stores Friday evening. The fact that the iPhone offers faster Wi-Fi networking would more than make up for the relatively slow pace of its cellular data network, he suggested. “It doesn’t concern me,” Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive officer, said today in a joint telephone interview along with Steven P. SAN FRANCISCO, June 28 - On the eve of the Apple iPhone’s debut, the top executives of Apple and AT&T today defended their decision to rely upon AT&T’s slow Edge wireless data network, rather than a faster network that is less widely available.Įarly reviews of the iPhone, while positive, have faulted the slower network because it will limit the palm-sized wireless computer’s utility in making the Internet easily accessible on the go.
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