Currently available in seven countries, Apple plans to roll out the phone to 22 new countries by the end of the month. By year’s end, the iPhone 4S should be selling in 70 countries. The addition of Sprint as a wireless provider in the U.S. means that 230 carriers now support the iPhone in 105 countries.
Apple is in the midst with a series of legal battles over the iPhone, most notably with Samsung and other makers of Android handsets. That prompted a question from one analyst about the ongoing litigation, but Cook declined to go into specifics.
“We spend a lot of time and money and resource in coming up with incredible innovations,” Cook said. “We don’t like it when someone else takes those. And so that’s why we unfortunately have been pushed into the court system as a remedy to that.”