UK iPhone sales figure cover up

A report in yesterdays Mail on Sunday says Apple are telling its UK partners O2 and The Carphone Warehouse to keep quite about iPhone sales, fueling rumours about the phones poor sales performance to date.
Mobile phone sales were up this Christmas, but the value of sales was down suggesting the £269 iPhone was positioned against the trend.
According to industry insiders Apple have instructed O2 and CPW not to tell investors the sales figures, and Steve Jobs' speech at Macworld Expo this week is expected to focus on pan-European sales rather than reporting on individual countries, which can be construed as avoiding highlighting market problems.

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