TUAW Liveblog Coverage of Apple’s Quarterly Analyst Call

Interesting nugget: Apple estimates 250,000 (out of 1.3M total) iPhones were sold to unlockers.

My big question, which seems to have gone unasked (and unanswered during Apple’s prepared statement) is whether Apple is accounting for iPod Touch sales on a subscription basis, like they are with the iPhone. Apple has stated that they’re using subscription-based accounting for the iPhone so as to be able to provide new features to iPhone users in future software updates free of charge. If iPod Touches aren’t being accounted for similarly, I suspect they won’t be getting the same feature updates, or at least not for free.

★ Monday, 22 October 2007