What do you call it when industry analysts predict you’re going to sell anywhere from 500,000 to 1 million units of something in the first two days, and then, when the data rolls in, you find out you only actually sold 146,000?  That, is the tricky question Apple is going to have to ask itself as the numbers come in from AT&T showing just how many iPhones were activated during the first 2 days it was available.

On the one hand, 146,000 in two days is a lot, on the other hand, it’s a whole heck of a lot less than the 500,000 to 1 million.  The fact that the sales slowed way down after the first day should also be cause for some alarm.  Is demand for this new, cool product dwindling?  The article I read did offer a caveat however, “Analysts cautioned against reading too much into AT&T’s activation numbers, saying the actual number of iPhones sold may be much higher but was not reflected in the figure because many users had activation problems and couldn’t sign up for a few days.”

True.  Bottom line, there’s a lot of cool phones out there, and while they might not have the slick interface that the iPhone has, if you pop WHERE on the phone, add some sweet GPS widgets, trust me, you won’t miss the touch screen.  You’ll be too busy knowing exactly where things are, exactly what things are going to be like, and exactly, well, a whole bunch of other things.