So we heard that Apple would be making 50 percent per iPhone, but leading anaylists are now taking a second look. Apple's cost, including integration, is well above $300 for the 4 GB model. After the costs associated with building, shipping, marketing and selling the iPhone are included, it looks like just a 20 percent profit for the iPhone.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Apple's iPhone margins may be closer to 20 percent than the estimated 50
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Apple acquired Fingerworks, touch gesture company, to create iPhone
It really wouldn't be an Apple device if it didn't involve the practical kidnapping of a pair of inventors and secretive technology buyouts, and the iPhone seems to be no exception. Fingerworks were struggling to keep their dream of gesture-operated gadgetry alive when the company suddenly closed up shop a year and a half ago.
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Idiot pays $112.50 for the worst iPhone email address ever
the.iphone.from.apple at gmail.com actually sold for a whopping $112.50 on eBay.
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iPhone interface analysis from an actual usability expert (gasp!)
Bruce Tognazzini has a lot of great things to say about the iPhone, as well as a lot of critiques. Tog goes in and picks some nits with various usability elements of the iPhone as a phone, an iPod, and an internet communicator. Here's my summary of Tog's opinions on the iPhone for you...
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Friday, January 19, 2007
iPhone Costs Only $245.83 to Build
According to iSuppli Corp., the 4GB Apple iPhone costs only $245.83 to manufacture, with the 8GB model checking in at $280.83. What are your thoughts?
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Download the iPhone Ringtone
Diggers might remember that Steve Jobs took a call on the iPhone during the Keynote. Well there was a unique ringtone there. A reader extracted the audio from the presentation, cleaned up the static, and removed the sound of 1,000 fanboys wetting themselves. Here it is, for use in your own cellphone.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Cisco Demanded to have a access to iTunes in return for Sharing iPhone Name
Cisco spells out what's in the 'iPhone' name: Cisco is understood to have demanded access to Apple's closed media distribution service, the online iTunes store, in return for sharing the 'iPhone' brand name at the centre of a trademark dispute between the two groups.
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Friday, January 12, 2007
Phil Schiller's Close-up Demo of Apple's iPhone
Apple, Inc's Phil Schiller shows John Blackstone of CBS the many features of the iPhone.
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UPDATE on Cisco's iPhone Trademark: Cisco Responds
Commentary from Mark Chandler, Cisco's SVP and General Counsel, on Apple's infringement of Cisco's iPhone trademark. "Most importantly, this is not a suit against Apple’s innovation, their modern design, or their cool phone. It is not a suit about money or royalties. This is a suit about trademark infringement."
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Apple VPs confirm no 3rd party iPhone apps
The lucky Gizmodo guys got their paws on an actual iPhone plus an hour of Q&A with some Apple VPs. Here are some of their scoops: The OS isn't going to be "OS X for real." It's more like a pseudo-OS X and, like the iPod, it will not have a public API and open development. Which is a shame. I'd really love to see the iPod and iPhone get opened up.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Cingular Confirms iPhone Will "Require" 2 Year Contract
Bad news for everyone on Cingular who was hoping to buy an iPhone outright, Cingular is confirming that the iPhone will not be sold without a 2 year contract.
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Wireless device makers slip on iPhone news
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of wireless device makers slumped Tuesday as news of the iPhone from Apple Computer Inc. surfaced. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the device at the Macworld trade show in San Francisco. Research in Motion saw its shares trading down 6.3% at $133.14 after the news!
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Official Apple iPhone Website
So sleek, so clean, so pretty. What is it about Apple products that makes them look so yummy?
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The Keynote - Part1
Steve Jobs's Keynote Address 'unveiling' iPhone. [Part1 - subsequent parts may be viewed directly from youtube, under the user name who submitted this]
Woz on the iPhone and Apple, Inc.
"As I was running down the street to dive into the throngs of nerds at Moscone South, I ran into Steve Wozniak. Yeah, you read that right... Woz, on a Segway... he talked about the iPhone and Apple, Inc."
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Apple Announces iPhone
Here is the first pic of the iPhone from today's keynote [pic]. Runs OSX.
and, the videos:
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Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Think Secret Releases Re-Cap of Macworld '07 Rumors, iPhone: 90% Chance
With some 24 hours until Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to kick off Macworld Expo, Think Secret presents a compilation of information we have received and reported over the last number of months concerning Apple's anticipated announcements.
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Sunday, January 7, 2007
iPhone Gets Macworld Hang-Up
Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi says that Apple had not yet received U.S. regulatory approval for the phone, a fact that greatly reduces the probability that Apple would introduce the music-playing cell phone at its annual expo in San Francisco.
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