Comments on: iPhone Sales: Now Bigger Than Ever

By: Tom Ross

Tom Ross — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:14:28 +0000

Because the phone market is a free market where the better one wins while the Mac is operating in a very difficult monopolistic market where Microsoft always wins. Even if Apple lowered their prices to what Acer or Dell charge (and lost most of their profitability), 50 % of consumers and 90 % of businesses would stay with Windows PC because it’s the standard.

By: Tom Ross

Tom Ross — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:08:25 +0000

The iPhone 3G is about $599 / €499 and as such more expensive than e.g. the Pre and way more expensive than the bulk of Nokia’s smartphones. What you’re referring to is the subsidized price. An iPhone smartphone that costs justs $99 without contract is still 10 years away.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:09:27 +0000

The $99 iPhone is a subsidized price.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:59:37 +0000

The only other network in the US Apple to sell to is T-Mobile and they are not clamoring to bring it to their network.

Apple’s not going to go backward to CDMA, so it might only be on Verizon in 2011 or whenever LTE is deployed.

But Verizon has a history of restricting device manufacturers from offering solutions. The only one I can think of with Apple has been the bluetooth issue of updating contacts and files. Apple is unlikely to be on Verizon, unless Verizon accepts giving Apple a lot of freedom, not just in the technology offered but also in marketing the product.

By: Becky Grant

Becky Grant — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:45:00 +0000

I think China already has 50 billion clones for $20 already for the past year :P

By: SD

SD — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:46:10 +0000

is there any news of when will iPhone 3GS launch in India??

By: tom

tom — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:15:03 +0000

but apple is catering to those consumers with the $99.00 iphone. i did not mention that these same friends who bought windows laptops wanting macs own ipods and iphones. my point is that apple could get an unbelievable market share with cheaper macs if they wanted it.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:52:11 +0000

I’m a developer, and I still use the iPhone 2G that I bought on day one. I should upgrade, but it works fine. I am noticing a touch of slowness, particularly with the 200meg app we designed for a label. That is pushing it!

Everything works…

By: Jnarf

Jnarf — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:33:54 +0000

Because Apple has not interest in low end laptops or computers, they leave that market to Windows manufacturers. When you buy a Mac, you are not only paying for a premium OS that comes pre-loaded with software, you are buying hardware quality and a laptop/computer that seamlessly works and allows you to be productive from the time you press the power button. Your friends are not looking to pay for quality or ease of use, they are looking for something that is good enough. You get what you pay for and in the case of your friends, I’m sure they did. Apple is not going to cater to them, unfair as it may seem, they need to go find a cheap PC somewhere at Best Buy. Nothing to see here folks, move along, move along.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:23:36 +0000

i want to add that at least half the people i know who have recently bought new windows laptops wanted macs but were unwilling to pay the high price.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:17:56 +0000

now why can they not get this same price mentality in play with the MacBook. they would take a massive market share away from windows if they sold last years basic MacBook for say $549.00

By: Richard Jones

Richard Jones — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:06:01 +0000

What the fu%k do you mean with

“Personnally, the iPhone itself as a device I’m far from being impressed but I give full kudos to Apple for “revolutionizing” the mobile phone industry”

I am no Apple fan boy but damn the device is a generational shift. What the hell would impress you ..mind melding?????????????

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:14:47 +0000

Did you understand what I wrote?

I have no clue what point you’re trying to make. Based on their last quarterly report, Palm is getting squeezed. The falling off in Pre sales will not get Palm better deals with subsequent carriers.

Android and its SDK might be free to the other mfrs, but they’re still developing software to differentiate their handset, as well as spending time integrating Android onto phones with different form factors, and features (i.e., keyboard) iPhone OS costs are partially shared with Apple’s Mac OS.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:11:51 +0000

iPhone is a phenomenon; not only just a handset that most of us have our eyes on. I have been a Blackberry user for a long time now (blame it on my employer!), but I secretly (and not so secretly at times) pine for an iPhone. It’s seductive, and it’s coolness gizmofied.
I think making the older model available at $99 is the best possible move that AAPL could make. It’s great that this move will force all the vendors to rethink their pricing.
I am not particularly enamored with Microsoft; but then again I can’t eliminate it from my life. Similarly, I believe iPhone will be as ubiquitous as Windows. There will possibly be superior products, but iPhone will beat them all (unless it’s already done).
And yes, I do hope AppStore becomes a huge success. There’s no reason why it should not be. It’s got the right ingredients for success – a robust platform, a bunch of dedicated followers, and the coolness that attracts the best minds to develop apps on that platform.

By: Jnarf

Jnarf — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:04:29 +0000

Windows is not an open operating system. Microshaft controls the development of it, just like Apple controls the development of OSX, there is no difference.

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:03:58 +0000

It might not be a good idea, but most people have been doing this for ages. No. 1 example was Microsoft Office, until an industry sprung up to get that data free. Even now, people still buy Office because they don’t want to risk being incompatible.

As for Apple today, I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Music, video, photos: all use open standard formats. Apps are always tied to a platform. So if you’re still making this argument, you must be stuck in the 1990s.