Moore’s iPhone News Reader - Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Your Favorite Magazines. Now on your iPhone. For Free
The iPhone's Uphill Road in Europe
T-Mobile To Respond To iPhone Link Suspension
Your Favorite Magazines. Now on your iPhone. For Free
AppleGazette's Michael reports:
Zinio is a service that has been around for a few years. They provide your favorite magazines in a digital format for viewing on your PC or Mac. Now, they have extended that service to the iPhone, and unlike their downloadable offerings…they're online magazines are completely free.....
Popular magazines on the site include: Men's Health, GQ, Popular Mechanics, Playboy (although don't go getting any wild ideas younglings…it's only the articles…all the ladies are blurred out), Macworld, Car and Driver and more.
For the full report click here.
The iPhone's Uphill Road in Europe
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Shelley Emling reports:
In the United States, the iPhone stood alone in a market with very few dazzling competitors. "Europeans, however, will have access to wider choices," said Sylvain Beletre, a France-based analyst at Current Analysis. "And consumers may expect subsidies on many of these options, unlike the iPhone."
The must-have gadget of the year, Apple's iPhone, has finally launched in Europe. The verdict? According to one reviewer, it's "like buying a Ferrari and finding that the only thing you can do with it is power your lawn mower."
Apple fans argue that iPhone's software -- and especially its elegant design -- still leaves rivals in the dust. However, there's no question that the more jaded European market will provide Apple more of a challenge.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/60385.html
Locked iPhones Will Cost Apple As Global Rollout Continues
The Baltimore Sun's David Zeiler says:
Constant rumors of Apple negotiations with cellular carriers in an ever-growing roster of nations - Spain and China being the most recent - indicate that the company is pushing forward rapidly toward realizing its dream of selling the iPhone worldwide. But its policy of tying the iPhone to one carrier per country has met with increasing resistance...
France and Germany are just the beginning. I suspect lots of other countries where Apple would like to sell iPhones have similar regulations against locking customers to a single carrier with long-term contracts.
Signs of trouble can already be seen in countries like China and India where Apple has yet to introduce the iPhone. The black market for unlocked iPhones is exploding.
For the full report visit here:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/appleaday/blog/
T-Mobile To Respond To iPhone Link Suspension
Reuters' Nicola Leske and Nikola Rotscheroth report:
Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile will respond on Wednesday to a preliminary German court injunction preventing it from linking sales of Apple's coveted iPhone to a two-year T-Mobile contract.
A Hamburg court granted the injunction to rival Vodafone Group, which had hoped to win an exclusive pan-European deal to sell the iPhone but lost out to T-Mobile in Germany, Telefonica's O2 in the UK and France Telecom's Orange in France.
For the full report click here.
Charles W. Moore
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