Mobile carriers sell more iPhones than Apple retail stores

neverindoubt said:
Who does this surprise?

There's 273 Apple stores in the US.

There are 5,361 AT&T stores in the US.

You can Google yourself for the rest of the mobile company store numbers if that's your thing.

That was my first thought. Like, well, yeah this isn’t strange at all. More outlets, by a factor of ten or twenty or more, plus you need a cell contract to make them work and you’ll get more sales through the places that you can do it all at once. Same goes for iPads and Macs. Apple is the primary company that sells those, plus they don’t need a contract with anyone to get them running, so yeah Apple would sell more of them.