Steve Jobs made a few noteworthy announcements in his keynote this past January. Among them, Mr. Jobs boldly announced that he expects to push 10 million iPhones out of Cupertino, CA. by the end of 2008. Great! I really hope Stevie can meet his objective. But, 10 million units in a year and a half…
Can Apple Ship 10 million iPhones By 2009?
According to Forbes, Apple may have a harder time reaching the 10 million mark for iPhone sales by the end of 2008, as Steve Jobs announced in his Jan. keynote. First, the market may not be as big as Steve thought. Smartphones only accounted for 10% of worldwide mobile phone sales. Then there’s the issue…
Free Marketing for Apple and iPhone
Who says nothing in life is free? Well, for Steve Jobs and Apple Inc., apparently about $400 million worth of marketing is free. Apple is touted, time and again, for products that are innovative and unique. Apple sets trends. But you also need to have a good marketing strategy. Peter Sealey, a professor at Claremont…
Guy Kawasaki blogs about the iPhone
A long-time Apple evangelist and now a venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki never hesitate to speak about Apple and its products. So it’s not surprisingly that he now discuses the iPhone. Actually, he posses eight very important questions about it. His questions include such things as battery life, consumers’ expectations, the speed of the data transfer…
Patents behind the iPhone
During his Macworld keynote, Steve Jobs said that Apple used over 200 patents for the technology behind the iPhone. Apple’s CEO only pointed out the multi-touch, leaving us guessing which other patents he had in mind. Luckily for us, Mad4MobilePhones has been busy researching, and they came up with a list of 21 patents they…
Apple iPhone Oscar commercial
During the Academy Awards, Apple was telecasting the ad for its upcoming iPhone. Nothing much was revealed, just a bunch of people saying “hello”. But then again, just enough to tease us. 🙂
Commenting the Apple’s iPhone
It’s been two days after Apple announced its entrance in the mobile phone market. The long-time rumored iPhone was finally presented at the MacWorld and… people are delighted. Everyone expected Apple to make a hit, but iPhone went one step further presenting some new concepts. Now, what we want to do is to separate the…
Top 10 reasons why Apple should embrace Symbian OS for its iPhone
I’ve recently posted that Apple could go Symbian. After thinking through the subject, I’ve compiled the top 10 reasons why they should do it. And here it is… 1. Symbian OS is by far the most superior mobile OS on the market. Unfortunately, not many U.S. consumers have seen the Symbian OS in action. Mobile…
Apple to go Symbian!?
I’ve stumbled upon an interesting article on the::unwired. The author, Alfredo Padilla, discusses some issues about the highly-anticipated Apple’s iPhone and sees some very interesting possibilities in a potential Apple/Symbian partnership. The rest of this post is a combination of Alfredo’s opinion and my own. Nokia already uses Safari’s code for its S60 web browser,…
AppleBerry coming soon!?
Globe and Mail has an interesting article speculating on the potential Apple-RIM partnership. The source of this rumor is the analyst Peter Misek (Canaccord Capital Inc.), who last year accurately predicted a partnership between RIM and Intel Corp. Interesting to add is that in a research note Misek said that senior Intel execs advised Apple…