From a story on Foxnews.com

[parrothead001]

This is a quote from a story on Foxnews.com..

"Apple is clearly worried about the competition. In an unprecedented move, the company moved up the delivery date for some pre-ordered phones to this Wednesday, rather than Thursday as planned. Undoubtedly, it's a moved designed to steal some thunder from the Verizon / Motorola announcement -- which had been intentionally planned for the day before Apple's phone shipped."

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/06/22/choices-smart-phone-google-droid-iphone/?test=latestnews

 

[danpass]

Haha!

Even better that its nice to be in a position to do that

 

[Rolvag]

FOXNEWS ... nough said

 

[mikethebigo]

I'm sure Steve is shaking in his boots... looks like the iPhone 4 is barely selling at all in this crazy competitive environment.

What a flop of a launch... might as well go get in the crazy huge lines for the Droid X

 

[Centient]

What a funny worldview they have.

 

[ctt1wbw]

FOXNEWS ... nough said

Yeah, **** FoxNews. It would be true if it was on MSNBC, right?

 

[topmounter]

Wow, and I'm sure everyone was going to refuse their iPhone4 shipment and run to the Verizon store get a DroidX

 

[Tankfantry]

FOXNEWS ... nough said

why do people have to do this? I guess I can say CNN...nough said.

 

[Nde]

I didn't know it was a "competition". iPhone totally owns.

 

[Small White Car]

Yes, "clearly."

 

[rwilliams]

I guess the absolute disaster known as AT&T played no part in Apple's decision, eh Fox?

 

[klitorisaurus]

Leave it to Fox to make news where there isn't any. How would early deliveries have ANY effect on the announcement or vice versa? The people receiving the phone are already Apple customers, they've already bought the phone. And if the announcement makes them want a refund, they can still get it, regardless of whether they got it on the 22rd or the 24th.

 

[Squid7085]

Because when I want hard hitting, fact checked news that isn't just some crazy speculation of why something is happening, by ignoring the reasonable answer, I turn to Fox News. Seriously, Apple splitting the two days in half to activate ~1Million iPhones, thus causing less server load each day isn't hard hitting news. No, Apple is instead afraid of a phone that probably wont sell as many devices in its lifetime than Apple has sold in a day.

 

[kodek]

Leave it to Fox to make news where there isn't any. How would early deliveries have ANY effect on the announcement or vice versa? The people receiving the phone are already Apple customers, they've already bought the phone. And if the announcement makes them want a refund, they can still get it, regardless of whether they got it on the 22rd or the 24th.

While it's true that those who got the phones are already Apple customers, delivering some phones early could be a form of advertising. They're letting those users speak about the iPhone, stealing the thunder away from competitors. Positive reviews from these users could very well convince people who haven't yet made a decision about which phone to get.

I don't think Apple did it on purpose, though. If they had, they would be advertising the early delivery more publicly.