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Okay, understood..

However, "cut and paste" and "folders" to store email attachments seem like rudimentary features that we shouldn't have to wait for..

AAPL stock dropped down to $160. What a great time for investors to get in and enjoy the wave of Apple not being stupid. It will be back to $190 within the next 3 months. if not sooner. MDN Magic Word = "increase"

That story sounds like something made up by Pocket Lint for hits.

'All the complaints and feature requests we've had can be fixed and added by software upgrades,' a spokesman for the company told Pocket-lint.

A "SPOKESMAN"??? If an Apple "Spokesman" made such a declaration, you wouldn't be hearing about it first on Pocket Lint.

Besides, not ALL requests and complaints can be cured with software. No one at Apple would say such a thing.

Youtube doesn't figure at all in my desire to buy an iPhone.

@MZ

Amen. And how long will we have to wait for the all so exciting feature called "search?"

Duh. Did anyone with any brains NOT realize this? Who needs an Apple "spokesman," whether real or not?

@Charlie

Thanks for the comforting words. It's nice to know that it'll only take AAPL 3 months to get back to where we were just 4 business days ago.

Yes, now is a fabulous opportunity to buy AAPL. The current correction is market-wide and caused be fears of a recession in the U.S. economy. Even if this turns out to be true (highly unlikely), AAPL is still well-positioned because the Mac has plenty of room to continue to increase market share and the iPhone is just starting its growth trajectory. I'm planning to double down on AAPL sometime in November, when I think it's bottomed out.
Happy Trading!

Don't stress about the current correction. Such things are normal given Apple's enormous recent run-up, as well as general market fears about the economy/oil. Apple could easily drop another 10% before this is over. Think about it as an opportunity to buy. Focus on the fundamentals and where Apple will be in a year, or two.

Warren Buffett once said (slightly paraphrased), "Nobody ever made his fortune timing the top and bottom of any market. All serious money is made somewhere in between."

I once asked my broker if it was time to re-buy IBM when it reached $38 a few years ago in a similar market pull-back. He said no, and that we should wait a few more weeks for the price to bottom out. We did, and before I could say "What the . . ." it was back to $100 plus.

If you believe AAPL is a solid stock with great upside potential, buy it. But DO NOT think you can time the market's ups and downs. You can't. And anybody who says he can is a fool, a liar, and (more than likely), a day-trading pauper.

@ Jake

Please tell us why you think a recession is highly unlikely.

(You wait, there will an exciting partnership with YouTube that adds video functionality)

I thought that the entire contents of YouTube were converted to .H264 to optimise them for the iphone?

So what am I supposed to be waiting for?

They should all Drink Camel's Milk! the collective fart they PHTOOM!!! out will jolt their brains to tell them to use all that pocket-lint they have to wipe the iphone and their intelligence clean so that they cease attempting to regurgitate functionality that has always been as a new scenario!!!

Nobody seems to have realised that apple could release an update which adds a 'record video' feature to the camera...

I think this might be why it has a 2 mp camera instead of the common-in-sony's 3.2 mp...
The 2 megapixel that is in my nokia can do quite high quality 640x480 video, whereas the quality of the 3.2 mp video is really low and the dimensions are something like 320x480.

Think about it. Record something with the camera, then easily upload it to YouTube!
It's genius!

...Possibly

@ iestynw: Yup, not many people have thought of that. It crossed my mind once that Apple could do such a thing. While shooting video with my iPhone is not a big plus for me, for others it could be a welcome added feature. I wonder what other goodies Apple has in store for us?

MW: Apple sez, "My hit iphone, let me show you it."

MZ - However, "cut and paste" and "folders" to store email attachments seem like rudimentary features that we shouldn't have to wait for.

Folders should be easy enough. How do you make copy and paste work from a user's standpoint? It would be great, just trying to figure out how it would work?

I'd like the ability to view Flash and to add alarms and check boxes to Notes.

Unless this camera can already record video and that feature was disabled, a software update will not turn it into a camcorder. That will likely be one of the incentives for you to buy the next iPhone.

And I sure wish all these wonderful software enhancements would come to fruition. Constant promises and speculation don't do me much good. How hard can it be to add the landscape keyboard to applications besides Safari?

These feature updates are great - the possibilities are endless:

- Flash
- Skype
- Able to open any file format that is emailed to you
- Ability to edit attachments in an inline email
- New apps!
- Interface improvements
- More efficient bluetooth
- Better energy efficiency

The list goes on and on...

"Folders should be easy enough. How do you make copy and paste work from a user's standpoint? It would be great, just trying to figure out how it woul"

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It would have to be some sort of menu that appears when you tap and hold, then drag your finger over a selection of text, then you just slide your finger down the pop-up menu to the commands of copy and paste. It shouldn't be too hard for Apple to figure out.

So i will be jailbroken for a few more months....

Vodafone launched its "iPhone killer", the Qbowl (what a sh*tty name!) on the same day as the iPhone in Germany. The press coverage of that event was massive (sarcasm).

So, today while messing around downtown Stuttgart I went to a Vodafone shop to check out the new Vodafone Qbowl, aka Samsung F700. Since I'm (still) a Vodafone customer I was very interested to see one up close and personal. I went through all of it's features, made mental notes of the response time of the touch screen and the usefulness of the slide-out keyboard, camera, music player, and web browsing. With all that in mind, I went to the T-Com shop a few meters away to check out the iPhone, and made the same tests.

My conclusion: How anyone can say with a straight face that the Samsung F700 is a supposed "iPhone killer" is beyond me. Really. All of the supposed advantages the F700 has over the iPhone on paper (sliding keyboard, 3G, MMS, 5 MP camera, not T-Mobile) are made moot in real world usage. It's bigger than the iPhone (but weighs less), the picture quality is the same as the iPhone despite the higher megapixel count, the web browser (mobile version of Opera) is good, but extremely slow - slower than Safari on the iPhone in EDGE mode, which is pretty sad, since it's a 3G phone - and the media player SUCKS.

The 3 biggest disappointments are the general UI experience (it's MUCH slower than the iPhone, (the touch screen is nowhere near as responsive as that of the iPhone), the extremely crappy battery life (no doubt due to 3G) and NO WI-FI (In a country where there are more Wi-Fi hotspots as UMTS / 3G antennas, that's a very big deal). This for a phone that costs the same as the iPhone.

If this is an example of what the competition will be for the iPhone, I personally don't see the iPhone being "killed" anytime soon.

Apple's position in the mobile phone market will play out the same as in the MP3 player market; the only phone that will kill the iPhone is a newer iPhone.

the recent 'correction' in AAPL was a structured and coordinated short attack. The shorts do it because they can. It is pure stock price manipulation without any consequence albeit a violation of SEC rules.

@Marcos

Your statement is purely fictional. The entire market is down over 600 points, tech stocks have been hit the hardest... All due to the recent report about the slowing economy and raising oil prices... This has nothing to do with a structured "short attack" on Apple..

Read the news and pull up some quotes other than AAPL. This sell-off is widespread.

This all sounds great to me. Still does anyone have any links that will validate this story?

@petey

Skype is already there: http://www.s4iphone.com (10 day free trial)

"Unless this camera can already record video and that feature was disabled, a software update will not turn it into a camcorder. That will likely be one of the incentives for you to buy the next iPhone.
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Huh? Virtually all point & shoot digital cameras have the capability of recording video clips. Video is just a string of individual frames played together. If your shutter is fast enough , the only limitation is on-board memory.