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After having a month to ponder the somewhat shaky rollout of iPhone 3G, AppleInsider is out with a curious pronouncement. They cite sources at the Apple retail stores as saying that sales of iPhone 3G are being slowed by handhelds running Microsoft Windows Mobile/WinCE. There’s no report indicating whether the Windows Mobile/WinCE devices played into shortages at the AT&T corporate stores, whether the new requirement of 100% activation may have everything to do with the slow sales process or if the crashing of the iTunes/activation servers was caused by Windows Mobile/WinCE. The rather lengthy article slings a lot of mud goes into great detail about how the handheld devices take forever to boot, etc. I’ve never worked retail – but don’t all retail folks hate their point-of-sale systems? You may recall that James Kendrick over at JKOnTheRun was one of the first to note the irony of Apples handheld point-of-sale terminals running on Windows CE – in his post iPhone 3G – brought to you by Microsoft.

AppleInsider – iPhone 3G sales hampered by Windows Mobile

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