I doubt you were serious, but thinking about the Microsoft employees I know, it makes the 503 figure sound very dubious.

The iPhone is a kind of forbidden love among (some) Microsoft employees. Many of them want to/feel pressured to use Microsoft technologies wherever possible. I would expect more than 500 to be sold just among folks in the Microsoft bubble.

Unless it were just really terrible, and everyone knew that from the beginning.

clever, but how do you explain the rest of the 3 units!

They thought they were ordering a kindle.

phone mart was out of iphone 4s and evo 4gs.