Moore’s iPhone News Reader - Thursday, October 11, 2007
Apple Prepares iPhone WebApp Catalogue
The Real iPhone Holdup (In More Than One Sense Of The Word) In Canada
3 Percent Of Teens Already Own iPhones, With More Planning To Buy
Readdle familiarizes Plucker e-Books with iPhone
Apple Sued Over I-bricks
Apple and Orange: Details about their Current Agreement
Swisscom reportedly keen on getting iPhone in Switzerland
Apple Prepares iPhone WebApp Catalogue
The Register's Bill Ray reports:
Apple is about to launch a consolidation portal hosting WebApps for its glorified slates, the iPhone and iTouch, whilst developing proper applications with Electronic Arts and others.
WebApps are web pages using AJAX as an application environment: for the moment they have to be re-downloaded each time you want to use them, but the catalogue about to be launched by Apple will include Remote Buddy (for remote controlling your Mac), Solitaire and a Nutrition Database as well as a WebApp launcher called iHome.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/10/iphone_apps/
The Real iPhone Holdup (In More Than One Sense Of The Word) In Canada
The Globe and Mail's Jack Kapica reports: :
The reason Rogers is tight-lipped about why it hasn't struck a deal to bring Apple's iPhone into Canada is because it would involve an embarrassing admission: To make the iPhone financially attractive, Rogers would have to cut the rates it charges its customers for data. And what company wants to cut its prices when there is no pressure on them to do so?
Well, that pressure is beginning to rise.
So far, Canadians are paying as much as three times what American customers are paying for data....
.This is the way the allegedly competitive service providers like it. They collect rates from customers largely ignorant of the dreadful prices they're paying....
That is, until Apple's astonishing market clout started to create a demand for the iPhone.
Rogers, Canada's only major service provider that could offer the GSM service (the iPhone, so far, works only on the GSM network), is faced with a decision: Lower its data rates to make the iPhone attractive or keep the data rates and watch iPhone customers stay away in droves.
Canadians would have to pay $400 for the iPhone, and to use all the iPhone features, about $300 a month in voice and data fees (the iPhone is a heavy user of mobile data transfer). By comparison, AT&T, the sole company offering the iPhone in the United States, allows a plan for $100 that includes 1,350 minutes of voice calls, unlimited data, video voice mail, 200 text messages and unlimited use nights and weekends......
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/cyberia
3 Percent Of Teens Already Own iPhones, With More Planning To Buy
Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng reports:
Before the iPhone was released, market research firm Piper Jaffray released data saying that awareness of the device was exceptionally high among teenagers. The firm added that a quarter of teens expressed interested in purchasing it at $499 (the old price for the now-nonexistent 4GB iPhone). Where, exactly, 25 percent of teens planned to get $500 to blow on an iPhone aside, the data showed the power of Apple's marketing to penetrate the highly-desired teen market.
Now, Piper Jaffray is back with new, post-launch data, and says that the iPhone is indeed doing well with teens. Three percent of students surveyed already own an iPhone, according to analysts Gene Munster and Michael Olson, with another nine percent planning to buy one within six months. Additionally, 4.2 percent of the (admittedly-small group of 212) parents surveyed already owned iPhones.
For the full report click here.
Readdle familiarizes Plucker e-Books with iPhone
[ Press Release ]
Readdle.com announces major upgrade to Readdle, a service for reading books and documents on iPhone. Using Readdle people can view electronic books, text files and even business documents at any place using their iPhones. The upgrade adds capability to view e-Books in popular Plucker format, adding iPhone to the long list of other Plucker-compatible devices. Also, Readdle public library section is expanded with high quality William Shakespeare's texts provided by PlayShakespeare.com
Plucker *.pdb files support added in this Readdle update provides registered users with ability to upload and read thousands of e-Books. Users of Plucker-based reader for Palm handheld devices, Windows Mobile devices and handheld devices powered by Linux can upload their pre-converted files, keeping continuity of their mobile libraries. There are many other sources of Plucker e-books -- mainly Project Gutenberg Library, which uses Plucker as de-facto mobile e-Book format. Existence of free Plucker Desktop software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux makes e-Book converting really simple task for everyone.
Recognizing importance of public library section of readdle.com for its visitors, Readdle staff continually fills it with the best quality classics. Now all iPhone users can enjoy plays and poetry of the greatest writer of the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, William Shakespeare, thanks to recently established Readdle partnership with the PlayShakespeare.com.
Readdle web service is FREE to use and provides 50MB free space per account.
Founded in 2007, Reddle.com targets to provide iPhone users with high quality web applications missing in a standard application set. Flagship company offering is Readdle web service, that allows people viewing electronic books, text files and even business documents at any place using their iPhones.
Apple Sued Over I-bricks
The Register's Dan Goodin reports:
Apple's breaking of iPhones that had been hacked is now the subject of a lawsuit, which claims the controversial tactic violates California laws governing antitrust and fair business practices.
The complaint, which seeks class-action status, was filed Friday in Santa Clara County Superior Court, just a short drive from Apple's Cupertino headquarters. It was filed on behalf of an iPhone buyer alleged to have been harmed when a security update issued late last month caused modified iPhones to lock up.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/10/iphone_bricking_lawsuit/
Apple and Orange: Details about their Current Agreement
Hardmac's Lionel reports:
As announced yesterday, we obtained details concerning the agreement between Apple and Orange for distributing the iPhone in Europe. However, the current drafted contract not being signed yet, it might still evolve.
Let's first mention past issues....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-10-10/#7305
Swisscom reportedly keen on getting iPhone in Switzerland
MarketWatch's Zurich Bureau reports:
Swiss incumbent operator Swisscom AG is interested in launching Apple Inc.'s iPhone in Switzerland, its chief executive said in an interview with Swiss financial paper Finanz und Wirtschaft.
Newspaper Web Site:
http://www.fuw.ch
For the full report click here.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/swisscom-reportedly-keen-getting-iphone/story.aspx?guid=%7B2F6D704A-1E3B-4D3E-9839-A58DC3F1376A%7D
Charles W. Moore
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