Comments on: AT&T: I’m in love with da iPhone

By: Jonathan Frate

Jonathan Frate — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:08:23 +0000

I'm looking forward to uploading photos from my vacation, downloading the tonight show videos from youtube (cuz it's the real web after all), listening to ipod music, and txting my friend on the "keypad" all at the same time while sitting at the beach on a speedy EDGE network.

Should be good for the 18 minutes that my battery will last!

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:10:38 +0000

I hope they made enough iPhones so I can get one Friday night and post pictures from its built-in camera to the Web showing the massive lineups.

By: overworked

overworked — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:44:50 +0000

well some of the nicest spoofs are all around us… So I think this thing got so much attention already that things cannot go wrong. I bet the shares will go UP UP UP. Apple will not anounce the definitive specs until the final introduction. And you all will be Flabbergasted

http://boem.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/latest-iphone-specs/

By: buzzdroid

buzzdroid — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:25:41 +0000

Forget about the potential for failure for a moment, forget about the possibility that fat fingered people will be completely out of luck. The real story is the absolute madness, which at this point, is likely to include camping out for the iPhone? Camping out? Are they serious? It's a damn phone people!

By: Neil Henry

Neil Henry — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:00:37 +0000

Yes, the iPhone is innovative. That is why, in the uncertain weeks after folks get their hands on this innovative device and are cursing the tricky, technique-dependent, can't get the hang-of-it, 'never-seen-nothin-like-that-before' quality of the input device -- AT&T will run scared; begin distancing themselves; hedging their bets; pulling out pieces of the launch campaign.

A company like AT&T cannot sustain the uncertainty of the adoption period.

iPhone is innovative - and that is why your company can never be associated with it.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:01:13 +0000

Om, that's not love motivating Randy -- it's fear. Old man AT&T just had a lavish and very expensive wedding to a 20-something ex-model/actress of questionable providence and whoops he forgot to get a pre-nup. If the iPhone isn't a huge success AT&T is going to be in a lot of trouble with Wall Street.

By: fog city dave

fog city dave — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:30:55 +0000

I can't help but echo Don's thoughts. From Forbes to the WSJ to ZDnet and the San Jose Mercury News, eveybody in the media and blogoshphere doesn't seem to just be predicting failure and disappointment for the iPhone. It seems clear that they WANT the iPhone to fail and be a disappointment. They're hoping to god that this thing can't be as good as it looks, and perhaps they think they can convince people to avoid it. I'm not sure why.

Of course, even when it is a boffo success, they'll say, "Oh, it's just Apple fanboys and brainwashed idiots buying that thing." Oh well, what can you do? :-)

By: charle

charle — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:42:28 +0000

I think Apple is pulling a real fast one on AT&T. Who is paying for all the ads --they are branded as AT&T.

In six months there will be a widescreen ipod that looks just like the iphone -- and that will be the best seller as the 100million ipod users upgrade to that.

Of course AT&T is benefiting from all the free publicity -- hard to put a number on that.

We also don't know what is the cut Apple is getting from sales/contracts -- so your estimated $50 million take is going to be a bit off. I'm also curious to see the margins on the iphone. a 8gb flash device with a screen and wifi should be about $150-200 -- and much cheaper with the amount of flash memory that Apple has been buying. Who gets that revenue? I suspect Apple is selling them to AT&T at 900 a pop, then agreeeing to take a smaller cut of the revenue in return.

By: AM

AM — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:36:50 +0000

Rick – “dream on for $100K” – said: “I wanted to know if Apple would be selling anti-viurs and spyware software with the iPhones. As far as know, this issue has not been discussed. As I expected, the guy (possibly manager) had no clue at all.”

Dear Rick, iPhone runs Mac OS X. Apple does not sell anti-virus/spyware for Mac OS X. Did you know that the iPhone Mac OS X is closed for application development – for a reason – especially to avoid hacks like you to trying to sell consumers what they dont need. Now go take the $100K from a Windows based company because they desperately need you (even if they dont need you, they think they need you!). So here in our office with 200 Macs and soon about 50 iPhones, we’ll be happy without a dedicated IT department and not spending $100K on a consultant.
AM

By: Eideard

Eideard — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:21:30 +0000

The only folks practicing "overpromise" are analysts and Apple anti-fanboys. Far as I know, no one from Apple has hoped for more than 1% - and that was hope not promise.

Meanwhile, AT&T should be thanking their lucky stars the advert package was wrested from their hands by Apple. I can't get that bloody tune out of my brain..