By Greg Mills
Apple has a uncanny ability to understate the forecast for the following quarter’s revenue each time they do the quarterly financial report to the analysts who are hanging on every word. Then 90 days later, they wow the very same crowd with unexpected numbers that blow the lid off the highest estimates. It is a game with gigantic money at stake.
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By Greg Mills
As I write this Sunday morning early, all the Apple news sites and a lot of regular news sites are running leaked information about the iPhone launch, scheduled for Tuesday. The normally tight new product security has been breeched by even Apple in a couple of ways. What seems clear is that Apple is moving to capture greater market share with more cellular carriers to be offering iPhones and with both a lower end and higher end offering. The iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 appear to be the two new iPhone models to be announced Tuesday.
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Posted by Greg MIlls
Ever since iPhone 1 was launched, the competition has been searching of the Holy Grail of technology, a true iPhone killer. So far, the mythological device has never actually been launched, but perhaps, the Samsun Galaxy 2 Android handset has come closest.
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Posted by Greg Mills
Rumors of a second, smaller, cheaper iPhone have been making the rounds for a while now. There are some rumors the cheaper iPhone might be the older 3Gs. There are compelling reasons for Apple to add another cheaper model of the hot selling iPhone to their product line. Those reasons are market share and Android specifically. See:
http://www.news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20080342-94/apple-to-sell-contract-free-$350-iphone-report-says/
Posted by Greg Mills
Mexican Restaurants serve hot taco chips with salsa. Apple can’t do that, serving “hot chips” in iPhone or iPad could result in very short life spans for such devices. Warranty and product recall nightmares must be avoided at all costs. Apple has a pretty good reputation for sturdy products and shaking out product quality problems early.
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Posted by Greg Mills
Reuters reports that a Korean iPhone owner just collected 1,000,000 won from Apple for violating his privacy. The iPhone owner just happens to be an attorney and the judgment, which was paid by Apple/Korea amounts to US$946.00. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/14/apple-korea-suit-idUSL3E7IE1L620110714
While that might seem insignificant, the iOS “bug” that allowed location data for an entire year or more to be stored in iPhone or backup computer represented a serious violation of privacy to many. Korean courts seem to agree.
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Posted by Greg Mills
The convergence of cell phones, computers and the internet have been fertile ground for all manor of good things. “There is an app for that” has been something nice to hear. Long ago, Apple figured out that killer apps are what drives device sales.
It seems like threats to privacy are increasing exponentially lately. Now when a cop wants to check your identification he calls in your driver’s license number and someone on the other end of the radio looks you up on a police computer system. Soon they radio back anything he might need to know.
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We welcome Verizon to the iPhone market: it’s been a long time coming, and it will challenge AT&T to provide better service and options, while at the same time growing the iPhone market for iOS developers. One thing to point out is that a Verizon experience is not going to be like an AT&T experience on the iPhone … both for the good and for the bad.
Read MoreErick Schonfeld of Business 2.0 predicts that Apple will introduce an iPhone this year. “Long craved by the Mac faithful, a sleek, beautiful cell phone that doubles as a digital-music player is coming soon from Apple’s iPod division. Although Steve Jobs has often dismissed the notion of such an offering because other companies are better at making phones, an already-announced but vague partnership with Motorola will allow Apple to stick to what it does best: great tech design.
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