iPhone to be Sold at Radio Shack and Best Buy?
Mobile Mag is reporting that the iPhone 3G may be sold at Radio Shack and Best Buy. Best Buy we can see — Apple’s already been making inroads there. Radio Shack, though, …ugh. Sure, since the iPhone 3G is being sold pretty much just like any other smartphone now, it’s not crazy that it could be sold by any of the usual suspects — Radio Shacks, Mall Kiosks, that one guy down the street who inexplicably has an AT&T store in his garage. But… Radio Shack? Maybe I’m old, but I remember a time when Radio Shack had, you know, electronic parts and wasn’t the laughing stock it is today.
Reconsider, Apple, because if this is true, it may help you reach your target, but it’s not going to do wonders for your image.
June 30th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I always say this: “Radio Shack. You’ve got questions……we’ve got blank stares.”
June 30th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Bad bad bad move going into Radio Shack… LAST place to go for anything electronic… Nothing but garbage.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:52 pm
This is a bit surprising, but not for the reasons given so far. Usually mobile phone sales in retail outlets have to do with which carrier has a station in those stores. Currently, I don’t believe AT&T has a presence of any kind in Best Buy, but they do in Radio Shack, thanks to Cingular being there before. (However, it’s been a while since I was in either one, so I could be wrong.) So frankly, Radio Shack makes sense, but Best Buy definitely does not. Remember, it has nothing to do with the quality of the store (iPods are already sold at both locations, so Apple has a presence anyway). Apple wants to get this phone in as many hands as possible, and opening up the number of retail locations is a good way to do that, but they would have to be retail locations with relationships with the carrier (AT&T in the US).
July 1st, 2008 at 7:47 pm
You know what **** all yall i work for radioshack and we sell way more phones than att so i think the iphone being sold here would have a great impact on apple’s profit……….
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 am
actually with best buy “mobile” stores popping up all over the place…(we just launched 8 in my district of 11 stores) and with att being one of the 3 carriers every store has…… i see it happening