Apple news is certainly exciting. I love it because the are truly innovative with their products. Today we are focusing on the iPhone 2. Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, another tech site, has predicted that the device will be capable of video chat.
Joe Svetlik, apple news editor of T3, said: “Apple keeps schtum about announcements, but everyone’s set on the new device being 3G, and there’s also a possibility they might introduce two different sizes - one with a bigger screen - which would the experience of watching a movie much better.
This seems to be a safe prediction: Mr Jobs has previously indicated that Apple plans to sell a 3G phone; AT&T, Apple’s US partner for the iPhone, has announced that it will complete the roll-out of its 3G network this month; and Apple has been busy stitching up deals with carriers in countries where the majority of customers have 3G phones, such as Japan.
This means Apple’s profit was up 36 per cent compared to the second quarter of 2007, with revenue rising 43 per cent.
5 million Macs worldwide in the same period last year.
So indeed apple news presses make me giddy.
Several Apple-watching sites have said for months that the next-generation iPhone would have GPS, and over the weekend one of the most authoritative tech blogs, Engadget, claimed to have seen an exhaustive breakdown of the phone’s components, including a GPS chip. In a few hours time, Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, will stand up and address a conference in San Francisco at which he is widely expected to unveil the next version of the company’s much-lauded iPhone.
In many ways, the iPhone’s effect on the market can be compared to what the iPod did for MP3 players. At least one could hope. I seriously love the sleekness and plus with the new etching thing that I have seen going around I am all the more excited.
Apple News Rumors of a much cheaper device - in the US, some observers have suggested that the price will drop from $399 to $199 - have in turn sparked speculation that Apple may be preparing to launch two versions - an “iPhone-lite”, with fewer features, alongside a more sophisticated model. I like the marketing aspect behind this. DO IT!
The new pricing deal, apple news analysts said, was the result of Apple having struck a deal with operators which will allow the latter to take a greater share of the monthly revenue from iPhone customers, in return for subsidising the device, analysts said. But if New Zealand follows the example of Portugal - which it has often mirrored over the last two years - it seems just a matter of time before Apple sets up ‘Apple NZ’ here, although Apple Australia will not comment on this. This makes me sad (and happy) that the new apple news is mostly for the US market.
It didn’t initially look that way. 39 billion profit (figures in NZ dollars) for its fiscal second quarter in figures released in April. This leads me to believe that NZ will see a release shortly.
“What the iPhone did was make it cool to use smartphones,” said Ramon Llamas, an analyst with research firm IDC. 2 million Macs sold last quarter were Apple portables, exciting apple news right there, an increase of 61 per cent over the 2007 quarter. The existing model can locate itself, but it relies on mobile phone masts and a process known as triangulation, which is less accurate than GPS.
According to apple news industry sources, however, the cheaper price will not stem from a pared-down device, but rather a decision by Apple to change its business model - in particular in Europe, where sales of the iPhone have been disappointing, and where it may be willing to receive a smaller percentage of monthly revenues in the hope that more units will be sold.
Before the phone came out, I actually asked guys from companies like Nokia and RIM how they were going to respond tp apple news, and the answer was unanimous — it was, ‘Welcome to the party, hop in the pool, the water’s fine’”
It’s an odd phenomenon because it’s not as though Apple invented the smartphone or any of its features – touch screen devices have been around for years and lots of mobile phones already had music capabilities on phones. The iPhone 2 has already been dubbed the “BlackBerry killer”. “2 billion cellphones out there, and we’re just scratching the surface,” said Mike Laziridis, CEO of Research In Motion, which makes the BlackBerry, the iPhone’s closest rival. I see that the former commenter and this one from Jupiter leads me to believe that the apple news may just be hype. “The combination of Apple’s iPod device and its iTunes Store for music downloads has energized the music industry,” gushed a JupiterResearch report in 2003.
In the case of the iPhone, however, competitors earnestly have reason to welcome Apple to the market. 43 million of those 2. Instead, RIM’s market share of smartphones in the United States has actually swelled from 35 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 45 percent in the first quarter of 2008.
“The fact that it looks cool and sexy has helped Apple, and has called attention to a portion of the market that had been under the radar for a lot of people,” Llamas said. It’s a standard line for companies to say they “welcome competition,” but it’s usually a throwaway meant to deflect attention from strategic vulnerabilities. Sneaky.
There were a lot of BlackBerrys in those stores where iPhones were selling, and there were people who may not have thought about a smartphone before, wanted the iPhone, thought it was too expensive, and bought a BlackBerry instead. In other apple news Apple’s impressive profits lately have been well and truly boosted by Mac computer sales - this is quite a different picture to even a year ago, when Apple’s success was driven mostly by buoyant iPod and iPhone sales. 91 billion for the strongest March quarter in Apple’s history.
Let’s sit back and see what kind of apple news comes out. Will it be the smartphone killer?
