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Holt Renfrew Insider Says iPhone Coming to Canada in Two Weeks - Report
AMEX Return Protection Overwhelmed By iPhone Customers
The iPhone Freedom Fighters Don't be afraid: Unlocking Apple's superphone is legal, ethical, and just plain fun
iPhone Could Mark The End Of The Geek Affair With Apple
Report: iPhone Sales Up 56% After Price Cut
More Legit 3rd Party iPhone Applications on the Way?
Confirmed: Apple component cable works with iPhone
Holt Renfrew Insider Says iPhone Coming to Canada in Two Weeks - Report
DigitalJournal.com's Christopher Hogg says:
While we're still marking this as rumour alert, a Holt Renfrew insider has told DigitalJournal.com the luxury retailer will be carrying Apple's iPhone across Canada by mid-October 2007.....
Both Apple and Rogers (the suspected carrier) are notoriously tight-lipped. When the iPhone was launched in the U.S., Canadians were left out in the cold and Apple fans outside the U.S. have cried themselves to sleep for months. However, DigitalJournal.com has learned from an inside source at Holt Renfrew that the luxury retailer will have the iPhone in about two weeks. We have to say this is still in rumour phase, as Holt Renfrew's publicity department would not confirm it with DigitalJournal.com. However, the source inside Holt Renfrew was adamant the phone would be arriving shortly, after speaking with the retailer's buyers.....
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AMEX Return Protection Overwhelmed By iPhone Customers
The Apple Core's Jason D. O'Grady says:
I posted a story in early September on American Express' return protection guarantee and how some customers were taking advantage of the offer after Apple's US$200 iPhone price cut on 06 September.
A colleague who spoke with a representative from AMEX told him that they usually handle 1,000 to 1,500 claims per week for return protection. After the iPhone price cut was announced AMEX's return protection department fielded over 7,000 claims in two days. You can guess who they were from.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=921
The iPhone Freedom Fighters Don't be afraid: Unlocking Apple's superphone is legal, ethical, and just plain fun
Slate's Tim Wu says:
Apple is not happy with its customers. Disobedient iPhone owners are unlocking their iPhones (modifying them to work with carriers other than AT&T) and installing "unauthorized" third-party apps. Last week the company struck back with a software update that acts much like a virus. It wrecks the operation of third-party applications and can turn unlocked iPhones into "bricks." Is Apple on the right side of this fight? Is it really wrong or illegal to unlock your iPhone? Well, I figured, there's only one way to find out....
You can check it out at:
http://www.slate.com/id/2175304/fr/rss/
iPhone Could Mark The End Of The Geek Affair With Apple
The Guardian's Jack Schofield says:
The teaser ads posted in New York showed an open lock and a headline: either "The best devices have no limits" or "Phones should be open to anything". They must have mystified a few people, but Apple fans had no doubt what they were about: Nokia was exploiting the furore over last week's iPhone firmware update. This not only plugged a bunch of security holes, it wiped out users' unapproved applications, and "bricked" some phones hacked to unlock them from AT&T....
But there was no deceit on Apple's part. Right from the beginning, its chief executive Steve Jobs had told Newsweek: "You don't want your phone to be an open platform"....
It seems remarkable that so many people could either fail to get the message, or could somehow convince themselves that Apple didn't really mean it. The answer, I think, is that Apple has been a personal computer company for 30 years, and everybody knows you can run whatever applications you want on your own computer. The iPhone was launched at a computer event (MacWorld), it runs a computer operating system (OS X) and it does computer things like web browsing. How could it not be a computer?....
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Report: iPhone Sales Up 56% After Price Cut
Apple 2.0 says:
Having jumped 200% immediately after the Sept. 5 price cut, sales of iPhones at Apple's flagship stores stabilized at about 142 per day, up roughly 56% from 91 per day before their price dropped $200, according to a report issued today by Piper Jaffray.
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More Legit 3rd Party iPhone Applications on the Way?
9to5mac's Cleve Nettles reports:
While Apple's official line is that the only 3rd party iPhone development will be on the EDGE-crippled Web 2.0 "SDK", behind the scenes, there is much more going on. Apple has been furiously working with their partners on games and applications for the iPhone/iPod and the standardized Human-Interface Controls that will go along with them. For instance, EA is currently porting their iPod lineup to the OSX iPod/iPhone platform to be sold along side the classic iPod OS versions. Other big developers with strict confidentiality agreements are also on board.
Apple is specifically looking to replicate the model of TMobile's successful SideKick application development and distribution platform (although obviously not in the Sidekick's Java). Apple has even brought in some of Danger's (SidekickOS creators) application development team to help with the architecture. A public SDK announcement will likely be made in the coming months which could possibly be included with Xcode. More likely, the SDK will be given only to high level developers with established close ties to Apple.
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http://9to5mac.com/apple-adopts-sidekick-application-distribution-model-234545623
Confirmed: Apple component cable works with iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)'s Mike Schramm reports:
So first, the iPhone appeared on the Apple Component cable page, and then we heard it didn't run video out, and then it did again, or maybe it didn't. At any rate, we finally have confirmation for you, thanks to punkassjim, that the iPhone will do video out.
In fact, he tells us that it will even show a preview of what you're watching on the iPhone itself while the video plays, along with the standard video controls and information....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/04/confirmed-apple-component-cable-works-with-iphone/
Charles W. Moore
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