From Gene Munster’s crack data collection methods, we now know that out of 258 people in Minnesota, 20 percent of them didn’t buy an iPhone 4 because of the antenna. Wow. 51.6 lost sales to Apple. That means what, exactly, in the greater scheme of things? I’m supposed to think that people in Minnesota necessarily represent the rest of the country, or the world, for that matter?
Also, 60 percent of the respondents spontaneously mentioned that they’re unhappy that the iPhone is not available on Verizon. They weren’t asked about that issue, they just brought it up. Which means at least 60 percent of this extremely small sample of people were Verizon customers, by the way.
Why would a T-Mobile subscriber want the iPhone to be on Verizon?
That means that despite claiming that the respondents were “spread across the four major carriers”, more than half of them must have been Verizon customers. That’s not exactly a spread. 60% for one carrier, 40% for the other three combined.
I have no doubt that the conclusion made by Ars—not having the iPhone on Verizon is costing Apple more sales than “antennagate”—is true. But we don’t need a really crappy poll to prove that one. That’s pretty much common sense.
Either get real evidence to back up your claims, or publish stories like these as blog entries, so we can know when you are just stating an opinion. Don’t try to fool me into thinking that these polls are anything other than complete nonsense.
