Nonsense. About 85 million iPhones have been sold in the USA to date. $5.9 billion would be $70 in repair costs for each and every phone sold. In my experie

Nonsense. About 85 million iPhones have been sold in the USA to date. $5.9 billion would be $70 in repair costs for each and every phone sold. In my experience, it costs about $50-$150 to repair a (reparable) iPhone, so this would suggest -- conservatively! -- that approximately one in every two phones is repaired. I call BS. They're probably counting replacements, many of which would happen anyway. For example, I didn't bother to fix a slightly cracked screen on my 3G, but simply waited until the 4 came out and upgraded then. This "study" would probably regard the entire price of the new iPhone 4 as the cost of the damage to the 3G, but of course I would have upgraded even if the 3G had been pristine.