Look at the world map of CDMA subscribers here.
Just the ones in North America alone could easily become 1/3 of world iPad/iPhone sales.
(Many people have a naive belief that billions of GSM dumbphone users automatically translate into billions of GSM smartphone users who can pay for data plans. Actual sales results have been quite different, especially in poor countries.)
Those statistics are meaningless because the majority of these networks are being transitioned to W-CDMA from CDMA2000 so in many cases these networks have ceased taking new customers on board in favour of transitioning existing CDMA2000 customers to their new network. Why would Apple create a product for a technology that is being phased out in the majority of countries where it exists? in 5 years time the only bastion of CDMA2000 will be the US and a few banana republics who don't have the cash to upgrade let alone purchase an iPhone.
Last edited: