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Apple shares fall on iPhone numbers By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer
Tue Jul 24, 5:13 PM ET
SAN JOSE, Calif. - AT&T Inc. wiped some of the glow off Apple Inc.'s iPhone on Tuesday, releasing numbers that showed fewer people than expected signed up for service in the first two days of the multimedia cell phone's release.
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AT&T — the iPhone's exclusive carrier — said it activated 146,000 iPhones on June 29 and 30, a number that disappointed investors following some analyst forecasts that Apple would sell 500,000 or more iPhones in its first weekend.
The news interrupted a steady rise in Apple's stock price that started with the iPhone'...
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