Good news for Apple
by Claudia Sonea
On Monday Apple presented the figures after its first weekend and the executives declared to be more than satisfied. Why wouldn’t they be? As they topped analysts predictions and the stock rose more than 2 percent. It was much better than the performance reached by the first version of the iPhone launched last year in June in the United States.
Some would say that the 1 million new iPhones sold just last weekend is not good enough to compete with the 10 millions a week sold by Nokia or Samsung, but the truth is that this brands of mobile phones offer multiple models a year, while Apple offers just one and is more likely to reach the same figures by the end of the year. People are crazy after it and they lined for hours to get one. Unfortunately, the launch on Friday was not without problems, many buyers leaving stores highly disappointed that the long awaited gadget could not be activated. AT$T, the only carrier for the iPhone in USA, said that the problem was caused by too many people who were trying to connect to iTunes in the same time, thus the synchronization with Apple’s iTunes not being possible.
The iPhone’s target is now represented by big companies which are rather doubtful of switching from the good old Blackberry, in spite of the fact that the support for corporate email offered by Apple is much better. However, they are starting to test it and maybe soon they will even purchase it heavily.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs made public his contentment about the start of the sales of the iPhone 3G that kept the popular touch screen and added faster wireless network, enabled download of third-party applications, etc. The best part of all is that this product is at half of the price the first iPhone was sold. Is that somehow related to the fact that Samsung Instinct is about to be launched at a lower price? Competition is always good…for the consumer.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080714/tc_nm/apple_iphone_dc;_ylt=AuKiorjgtoGY6GAg3imuh16s0NUE
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posted by Lucia Adamova
Some would say that the 1 million new iPhones sold just last weekend is not good enough to compete with the 10 millions a week sold by Nokia or Samsung, but the truth is that this brands of mobile phones offer multiple models a year, while Apple offers just one and is more likely to reach the same figures by the end of the year. People are crazy after it and they lined for hours to get one. Unfortunately, the launch on Friday was not without problems, many buyers leaving stores highly disappointed that the long awaited gadget could not be activated. AT$T, the only carrier for the iPhone in USA, said that the problem was caused by too many people who were trying to connect to iTunes in the same time, thus the synchronization with Apple’s iTunes not being possible.
The iPhone’s target is now represented by big companies which are rather doubtful of switching from the good old Blackberry, in spite of the fact that the support for corporate email offered by Apple is much better. However, they are starting to test it and maybe soon they will even purchase it heavily.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs made public his contentment about the start of the sales of the iPhone 3G that kept the popular touch screen and added faster wireless network, enabled download of third-party applications, etc. The best part of all is that this product is at half of the price the first iPhone was sold. Is that somehow related to the fact that Samsung Instinct is about to be launched at a lower price? Competition is always good…for the consumer.
related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080714/tc_nm/apple_iphone_dc;_ylt=AuKiorjgtoGY6GAg3imuh16s0NUE
| by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv) |
PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.<br><br><font size=2>These news are original content from young talents around the world and are selected for you by Chris Cantell.</font><br>
posted by Lucia Adamova
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