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By: sparky1999

sparky1999 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:57:35 +0000

Some people seem to have made money on the BOGO.

Terminate the extra line for $175 and sell the phone on e-bay or elsewhere for as much as $300!

VZW has increased the early termination to $350 now !

By: KenC

KenC — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:17:08 +0000

I would just point out that while only 6.7% more iPhones SHIPPED this past quarter over a year ago, over 40% more iPhones were SOLD.

As you know or should know or forgotten, last year, Apple ran down the EDGE iPhone inventory before the 3G launch. The 3G launch had to refill the channel inventory. That was 2M iPhones, so actual iPhones sold last year were only 4.9M, not 6.9M. This year, of the 7.3M iPhones shipped, about 500k were additional to channel inventory, meaning sellthru was roughly 6.8M, or about a 40% increase in sales.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:13:09 +0000

“but the best news is for RIM. RIM sold 8.5 million phones, up from 6 million last year, a super-sized 40 percent increase.”
HOW CANYOU SAY THIS? RIMM GAVE AWAY 1/2 OF THEIR PHONES WITH THE BOGO PROMOTIONS. GIVING THEM AWAY IS NOT SELLING THEM AND DOES NOT COUNT. APPLE IS THE LEADER IN NUMBERS SOLD.

By: KsbjA

KsbjA — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:46:41 +0000

So the iPhone is still where it belongs – at the top.

By: Gazoobee

Gazoobee — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:10:39 +0000

@BKim: Interesting theory but it’s not based on anything IMO.

The curve on the graph is pretty steep, it’s unlikely to ever go down despite the craptastic nature of 90% of the apps. There is never a shortage of crap.

The very worst scenario is more likely to be stagnant growth (stabilising at some number *above* the current 100K), but even then, past trends would predict that the percentage of the eventual “final” number in that scenario that constitute *quality* apps would go up.

By: belkin

belkin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:05:50 +0000

You should delete the BKIM comment as it has nothing to do with your post and is a shill for their app – or he cannot figure out how to use more than one poorly selling app on his phone. While the competition is clearly stronger in phones versus the ipod also-rans – basically Apple’s goals are to gain about the same market share in the top end of the market, the $600 range (with subsidies) of smartphones while letting RIM give away phones (bogo) or Andreoid which will have 20 companies sniping each other and either cannibalize its own marketing and of course, drive down prices and margins. There will be two markets, the high margin market that Apple is after and the low margin rest of the players.

By: chano

chano — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:02:58 +0000

WRONG! What makes BKim think the app count will stop here. The App Store is less than 1 1/2 years old. It will mature. Developers will mature and get wiser. The count will fall only to be matched by a rise in average quality.
Now go collect your 3 pieces from RIM et al.

By: BKim

BKim — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:00:12 +0000

The app store in its current form does not seem sustainable because (as a recent study suggest) most of the developers are not making money. Out of all the apps I’ve installed I have only paid for NeuroMobile and few others. It’s also one the few apps I still use everyday. Many of the free and junk apps will go away and the more popular ones will go to higher price point. So the 100K apps that Apple claims will be reduced to a much smaller number in the long-run.

By: Dantron

Dantron — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:42:48 +0000

beleaguered FTL!