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'If You Build it, Will they Come?': Yes, iDid
AT&T Works to Fix iPhone Activation Woes
Apple May Have Sold 700,000 iPhones, Beating Estimate
Macintosh 2.0?
iPhone Autopsies Conducted
iPhone "will likely become the fastest selling product in Apple's history"
Most iPhone users thrilled but a few are iRate
Safari: The iPhone's Real OS
Mossberg Says Microsoft Will Build Phone to Compete With iPhone
Consumer Group Questions iPhone Battery Replacement
Taking the iPhone Apart
Curious Gadget Fans Smash, Dissect iPhones
Is the iPhone "the Best iPod Ever"?
Review: Apple's iPhone Is Great iPod and Web Device, but Lousy Phone
Baseline: Opinion: Will the iPhone Change Everything?
PCMag - Does iPhone Live Up To The Hype?
PC Mag: iPhone Sales Numbers Indicate Solid Start
The Tech Night Owl: Can the iPhone Shake Up the Wireless Phone Industry?
The Tech Night Owl Newsletter: So What's Really Wrong With the iPhone?
This Week's Tech Night Owl Radio Update
'If You Build it, Will they Come?': Yes, iDid
PBCentral'sJoe Leo says:
Friday, June 29th... a day which will live in infamy. No, wait, that's another day in history. But as far as the year 2007 is concerned, it was the World Premiere of Apple's newest tech gadget device, the cell phone / iPod / internet device called the iPhone. And history has yet to write the pages of this story.
It's too early to tell just what the future ramifications of Apple's iPhone holds in store. Will it change the world as we know it? Will it be as groundbreaking as Alexander Graham Bell's invention back in 1876? No one knows. But still, people lined up for it. "If you build it, will they come?" Yes they did, and in droves.
In fact, the only groundbreaking innovation in the history books was recorded the day before on June 28th, 1929 when the first demo of a color T.V. took place in New York**. Quite fitting, in a sense, though instead of [Apple]TV, it's the iPhone which kind of lets you watch T.V.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.pbcentral.com/columns/hildreth_leo/070702_iDay-coverage-June29.shtml
AT&T Works to Fix iPhone Activation Woes
AP's Sudhin Thanawala reports:
While blogs continue to simmer with complaints from people who waited months to buy an iPhone and now are experiencing problems activating it, AT&T Inc. said Sunday that the situation has improved.
"We are working on any issues on an individual basis with customers who were impacted," said Michael Coe, a spokesman for AT&T, the Apple Inc. device's exclusive carrier. Nearly all customers have been able to activate their phones within five to eight minutes, he said.
Without activation, not even the phone's alarm clock works, leading some unhappy customers to joke that their inactive iPhones are little more than expensive paperweights.
For the full report visit here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3336275&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
Apple May Have Sold 700,000 iPhones, Beating Estimate
Bloomberg's Connie Guglielmo reports:
Apple Inc.'s initial iPhone sales may have beat analysts' top projections, suggesting Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs will reach his goal of making mobile phones as profitable to the company as computers and the iPod.
Shoppers may have bought as many as 700,000 units over the weekend, Goldman Sachs Inc. analyst David Bailey said, twice his projection of 350,000. Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster pegged sales at about 500,000, more than twice his original 200,000 estimate.
More than a third of Apple's 164 stores were out of stock by last night, according to the company's Web site, leaving buyers in states such as Hawaii, Nevada and Utah to try AT&T Inc. stores. AT&T, the exclusive provider of wireless service for the iPhone, said most of its 1,800 stores sold out within 24 hours.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aEfXwm7mn5z0
Macintosh 2.0?
PowerPage's Bob Snow says:
If the iPhone is version 2.0 of the Macintosh computer, then the 4GB iPhone is the second coming of the original 128k Macintosh. Product reviews seem to bear this out: The iPhone is phenomenal, while falling short. A vision of the future, hampered by the constraints of current technology.
The iPod was doomed to the same slow death as the PDA. Almost everyone carries a mobile phone and increasingly, they can do it all.....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.powerpage.org/
iPhone Autopsies Conducted
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
It hasn't taken long for many of the Apple iPhones acquired over the weekend to be taken home and taken to bits as hardware fans and chip analysts alike try to find out what kind of kit the "revolutionary" handset is packing.
Perhaps the most complete set of disassembly pics have been provided by Mac repair and upgrade company iFixit, which has posted a part-by-part dissection beginning with the phone's packaging and ending with a single circuit board....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/07/02/iphone_autopsies_conducted/
iPhone "will likely become the fastest selling product in Apple's history"
PCPro's Simon Aughton reports:
iPhone is a landscape changing device and over the next to to three years Apple has the potential to become a leading smartphone vendor, according to American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu.
Wu, who said he was "fortunate" to have received an iPhone to test, said that the phone-plus-iPod is "the first true convergence device".
"In our view, it is more than just a classic old school product in that it is landscape changing, being the first true convergence device that combines the best media player (widescreen vPod), a near full-function web browser (Safari), email/contacts/calendar, and a cellular phone," he wrote
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Most iPhone users thrilled but a few are iRate
Reuters' Scott Hillis reports:
Apple's iPhone has been out in the wild for a full day now, so we checked in with a handful of buyers to get their impressions.
One key question was about the activation process, which has been less than smooth for some people. An AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said while there had been some hiccups, the activation process had worked great for the vast majority of people, a statement echoed by Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock.
Of the 11 people contacted by Reuters, two said they were completely unable to activate their phone despite repeated attempts. Another person was delayed for more than an hour trying to transfer his old phone number from a pre-paid AT&T account, but got his iPhone working when he just signed up for a new number. The rest reported no hitches.
For the full report visit here:
http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/07/02/most-iphone-users-thrilled-but-a-few-are-irate/
Safari: The iPhone's Real OS
OSWeekly's Brandon Watts says:
Even though I've already talked a little bit about it, I still can't get over the fact that Apple is trying to sell all of us on the fact that third-party application support on the iPhone means building a Web 2.0 application that can run on top of the Safari engine. A third-party application on a phone isn't just some Web site that's treated like an application - it's much more than that. I was truly hoping that Apple would open up the iPhone more than they are, but they've let me and many other Apple fans down with this development.
OS X is a platform that can be developed for, and since the iPhone is sporting a customized version of OS X, the same rules should apply. This mobile device that they've developed is more than just a cell phone - it's a computer. Therefore, it should be treated as such, especially since I can already foresee an untold number of MacBook and MacBook Pro users relying less and less on their laptops and more and more on the iPhone for basic Internet tasks. It's portable, it's always with you, and it's perfect for development.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2591&Itemid=449
Mossberg Says Microsoft Will Build Phone to Compete With iPhone
Bloomberg reports:
Walter Mossberg, a technology columnist with the Wall Street Journal, talked with Charlie Rose in New York Friday about Apple's release of the iPhone, the reasons why Apple chose AT&T to serve as the phone's exclusive service provider, and his belief Microsoft Corp. will build a phone to compete versus the iPhone.
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Consumer Group Questions iPhone Battery Replacement
Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports:
A Los Angeles-based consumer watchdog group that filed a lawsuit against Apple in 2006 has called on the company to spell out the iPhone's battery-replacement policy to prospective buyers.
In a letter sent Friday to Apple CEO Steve Jobs and AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, the Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumer Rights (FTCR) asked that iPhone battery issues be disclosed in all advertising, before retail sales close and during activation using iTunes "to ensure that no customers are misled concerning the performance and effective cost of the unit." The letter also urged Apple to provide replacement batteries free of charge throughout the life of the iPhone.....
Although Apple doesn't specifically say that the battery can't be replaced by users, early examinations of the iPhone's innards confirmed that it would be nearly impossible. IFixIt.com, which conducted one of the first iPhone "tear-downs," noted that the battery is soldered to the device's logic board....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/02/iphone-battery-replacement_1.html
Taking the iPhone Apart
BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl reports:
As the creator of the iPhone, the most highly anticipated piece of consumer-electronics equipment in a decade or more, Apple certainly has much riding on the device's success. So too, in turn, do Apple's many, mostly anonymous suppliers.
Apple, always secretive and tight-lipped about its supply-chain and manufacturing arrangements, almost never says anything in public about its suppliers, not even to disclose names. The exceptions are Intel, the chipmaker that supplies the microprocessors for Apple's Macintosh computers, and NVIDIA and ATI, which supply the graphics chips for those same computers.
So it's left to teardown firms such as Austin-based Portelligent, to sleuth out not only who supplies all the parts but what it costs to make a device. And David Carey, Portelligent's CEO, did something that few others in the country did after buying an iPhone: He took it apart.
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Curious Gadget Fans Smash, Dissect iPhones
Reuters reports:
It took Apple Inc. more than six months to build the iPhone but curious gadget fanatics needed only minutes to tear one apart.
Within hours of the first iPhones going on sale Friday, enthusiasts scrambled to be the first to discover what makes the devices tick, posting photos and videos of disassembled phones on the Internet.
The information is more than just academic. Apple keeps a tight grip on information about parts suppliers so "tear downs" of its products are closely watched by investors keen to figure out how to place their bets.
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Is the iPhone "the Best iPod Ever"?
Rolling Stone says:
At the iPhone announcement last January, Steve Jobs called his new product the "best iPod ever." Now the iPhone is finally here, after six months of speculation. So does it live up to the hype as the ultimate iPod music phone? Rolling Stone technology writer Tom Samiljan took it for a test drive, focusing specifically on the music, media, photo-viewing and other features you find on a typical iPod.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/07/02/is-the-iphone-the-best-ipod-ever/
Review: Apple's iPhone Is Great iPod and Web Device, but Lousy Phone
Fox News's Sascha Segan and Tim Gideon report:
When he announced the iPhone, Steve Jobs said to expect three things: "an incredibly great cell phone," "the best iPod we've ever made" and "the Internet in your pocket."
One out of three isn't bad. Yes, the iPhone is the best iPod ever — ironic for something not even called an iPod!
But it's just a plain lousy phone, and although it makes some exciting advances in handheld Web browsing, it's not the Internet in your pocket.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287694,00.html
Baseline: Opinion: Will the iPhone Change Everything?
Smart phones that can access on-demand Web-based applications may change business forever. John McCormick, editor-in-chief of Baseline and CIO Insight, explains how.
To read more, go to:
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1397,2153060,00.asp
PCMag - Does iPhone Live Up To The Hype?
Steve Jobs made some heady claims about the iPhone back in January. Does the actual device live up to what he told us to expect?
To read more, go to:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2153134,00.asp
PC Mag: iPhone Sales Numbers Indicate Solid Start
"The rate at which Apple iPhones flew off the shelves this weekend came as a surprise to some analysts. But most were confident that, barring any supply shortage, Apple could continue its sales momentum in the near future."
To read more, go to:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2154145,00.asp
The Tech Night Owl: Can the iPhone Shake Up the Wireless Phone Industry?
the other day, i read the text of an alleged reproduction of a rival wireless company's talking points against the iphone, and its perceived lack of certain significant features.
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http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletter/2007/07/01/newsletter-issue-396/#industry
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The Tech Night Owl Newsletter: So What's Really Wrong With the iPhone?
As I write this, both Apple and AT&T stores are rapidly running out of their initial stocks of the iPhone. Those of you who expected instant gratification may have to redefine "instant" to encompass days or weeks until new supplies arrive.
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This Week's Tech Night Owl Radio Update
Well, I've already said that I'm not inclined to want to buy an iPhone, at least not yet, although I being urged by my wife, Barbara, to reconsider (and she's probably right). But that doesn't mean they're not flying off the shelves. In fact, with AT&T reporting it's nearly out of its initial stock, you can feel assured it's on the road to a great success. So this week, on The Tech Night Owl LIVE, we brought you up to date on the iPhone and other up-to-date issues involving Apple Inc. with Macworld's Jim Dalrymple.
Here's the URL for this week's update on the show:
http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletter/2007/07/01/newsletter-issue-396/#update
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