“Cell phones sporting bigger screens, music, video and Web-surfing capabilities may try to steal some of the spotlight when Apple Inc.’s iPhone debuts next month,” Franklin Paul reports for Reuters.
MacDailyNews Take: Good luck with that.
Paul continues, “‘One of the great advantages of iPhone for us is that it will heat up the music (phone) market,’ said Denny Strigl, chief operating officer at Verizon Communications Inc.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, for AT&T, not Verizon.
Paul continues, “‘We were one of the first to get into the music business, one-and-a-half years ago, and it has been very difficult to get traction,’ Strigl said, adding that Verizon will launch new multimedia phones to take on the iPhone.”
Paul reports, “At $500 to $600, the iPhone’s price tag has been called spectacularly high, possibly opening the door for handset makers with similar models. Still Apple, whose iPod music device and iTunes service dominate the market, expects to sell 10 million of the phones in 2008.”
MacDailyNews Take: Who’s calling iPhone’s price “spectacularly high?” iPhone’s competitors, that’s who. And Apple’s stated goal is 10 million iPhones by end of 2008 – starting late June 2007 – not 10 million iPhones “in” 2008. Let’s not move the goal posts on Apple via inaccurate reporting.
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The competitors can try to ride the Apple tidal wave (more like tsunami) but they are going to get wiped out and left for chum to feed the sharks.
“..A Daily Reader who has yet to post….”
So what kept you from posting ?
Could it be that Franklin Paul is spectacularly high?
Denial.
Verizon on the horizon with Vista. Ha.
now on Amazon tehy pay you 25 dolars to take the BLackJack with 2 year contract.
Not to mention all smartphones are almost free.
Somebody is scared of Cupertino
“So what kept you from posting ?”
It’s probably a traumatic post stress disorder.
It’s gonna be like the iPod story all over again. Hold on your AAPL if you have some; if not, get some!
AAPL is over 110 and climbing. Good times.
Funny how these other handset makers think they’re even in the same DEVICE CATEGORY as the iPhone!
Clever ron!
They (the competition) can bring out new ‘smart phones’, but they’re going to have to think of some good original ideas, and quickly! They can’t use any of the iPhone features as they’re all well protected by patents.
Moreover, what are they going to use for an OS? The only ‘mature’ OS for hand-held computers (which is what the iPhone is) is OS X and they’re not going to get their grubby mits on that.
There are plenty of smartphones in the $500-1000 range. The iPhone will be a bargain, especially if AT&T subsidizes it.
The difference is OS X on the device. The competitors don’t have that going for them.
It is quite expensive at first glance but for what you’re getting it isn’t so bad tbh. Its a super device I must admit and I really want one. Time to start saving I suppose.
Sweet.
Verizon lost out. iPhone will sppeed things up for nokia, erikkson, and device manufacturors, but services… AT&T is the one to switch too, Verizon lost out.
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Cingular is currently offering a “smart” p[hone maunfactured by HTC, the H700, that costs the customer $499 AFTER SUBSIDY. There are other phones on the market that cost just as much, if not more. All references to the iPhones $499 and $599 price as being to high/expensive are based on ignorance, or attempts at FUD.
My personal research shows Apple will sell 6,400,000 during calendar 2007, and 20,000,000 during calendar 2008. THAT is the fear of the competition. Twenty million units represents 25% of the “smart” phone market, making the iPhone #2 only to Nokia, and ahead of MSFT’s WinMobile OS in marketshare.
Well… Nokia N95 IS iPhones real competitor, but it is more expensive than iPhone.
I love competition. Now all of these other mobile phones are suddenly able to do a lot more than before. Amazing! We’ve been hearing that mobile phones in Asia and Europe have a lot more features than here in the States. I guess that the iPhone was the “kick in the butt” that these phone makers needed to start offering more for the USA. It’s also incentive for these businesses like Verizon and AT&T to support those features better.
I bet they sell a million the first month.
iPhone Rules!
I will order two.
Maybe I’m just the shy silent type or maybe I was waiting till I had something significant to say. But, why let THAT stop me on this, of all forums (joke).
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I think iPhones will sell out on the first day! And what message would that send to the phone industry? That people would rather pay $500 and sign a 2 year contract instead of getting a subsidized phone for free? If anything, the iPhone will dramatically illustrate people frustration with difficult to use, current generation of cell phones.
Perhaps I don’t post because I would get reamed from every angle by other readers. Or I’m scared that I will make a typo and be ridiculed by every other poster. Or perhaps I don’t post because its more fun to watch other people get reamed and ridiculed for no reason. Or its just fun to be anonymous…