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- pmuse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Haven't they been saying June all along?
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Yes, but they felt the need to re-iterate given the AppleTV delay and the general downturn in Apple stock in the past few days.
- Evoguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow.. another article about Tim Cook and this one conference... only spun in some tiny different flavor. This sure is great.. maybe you guys can fill up the entire front page next.
- lorductape, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1he says we get what we pay for: if I payed NOT to use cingular, would I get THAT?
- DirkBelig, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Who cares? When are the 6G iPods coming with the dope screen, but without the phone claptrap?
- pledomobil, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Wow! Seems the server is down.
- xoineg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@ireland, don't forget it has to be a 100gb flash based HD :)
- easy4lif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1just like the apple TV started shipping February 28th.
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2100GB - Fullscreen - Video - iPod - with REAL '16:9 Widescreen', Multitouch + Coverflow... / licks lips.
- mikehartor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks a lot! I couldn't see any graphics in IE7 or FF.
- ElumEnopee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does Apple know how many of the ipods are first time buyers? I know several people who have either bought more than one simply to upgrade or in my case bought more than one because the others broke.
(Not complaining -- just curious) - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The PDA market is doing lousy because PDA's suck at the moment. Since Palm sold Palm OS we have really seen nothing new come into the space.
My last PDA was a Palm V - I have been without, even though I've tried a few phone replacements. The iPhone to me looks like something Palm should have delivered to us about two years ago. I will happily buy one just to get a mixture of phone and PDA done right. And I think there are a lot of people like me, people who liked PDA's once upon a time but when dormant when the magic left the industry. That is where sales will come from. Ten million might be kind of optimistic, but there is a lot of demand people are not seeing or understanding. - zunipus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Some words from a critical thinker who uses Apple stuff because it's the best there is, at the moment. Find me something better and I'll use it:
I just listened to the entire presentation with Tim Cook. He is no Steve Jobs, and I am not talking about performance or the 'reality distortion field'. I am talking about thinking on his feet. I found his answers to questions disappointing as I don't believe they were particularly intelligent. His answers certainly were NOT stupid. (I considered the speech by the guy from Cingular/AT&T at MacWorld stupid). But they were not very descriptive or imaginative. They were taken from a list of marketing organization official replies. Boring. I have this scary feeling about him replacing Jobs when he retires.
The predicted figure of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 is not connecting with me. I could easily see 1 million in that time. But let's face it folks, the cell phone industry is based on cheap phones, period. OK, so the iPhone will also be a super duper PDA. Check out how the PDA industry is doing: lousy. I have had one for three years and use it constantly and consider it the other half of my brain and could not live without it. And yet! I am utterly alone in my world having one. No one else does. Palm have the best one going with the Treo, which also happens to be a phone, but the sales are not spectacular, or even terribly good. Yes, Apple have an utterly gorgeous interface, brilliant touch screen technology on an great looking HD proportioned screen that puts everyone else in the dirt. But who is going to pay for it? Since a gigantic percentage of people don't care about having a PDA, and seeing as most crappy old cell phones do the critical PDA stuff anyway, like addresses and appointments, where is the 'killer app' incentive to buy an iPhone? I simply do not see it selling 10 million units through 2008. I do however see lots of Wall Street analyst backlash when it does not meet that sales figure, which is damaging to Apple. :-( Aiming high is an excellent strategy for achieving excellence. But don't do it in public, be conservative. The Apple way is to SURPRISE the market. This entire iPhone venture is a study in how to ANNOY the market. I consider that very bad marketing.
Which of course leads me to note that I don't like vaporware and it disturbs me when companies promote vaporware. As you might imagine I find the TV ads for movies that are not coming out of two months, or more, to be absolutely annoying and useless. OMG am I sick of the promos for the movie '300'. Enough! I was ready to see the frickin' thing in January. By now I am so damned sick of the ads I want to scream at the marketing morons who perpetrated this campaign. Similarly I am getting fed up with Apple promoting a product that will not be shipping until JUNE! This is soooo non-Apple. Some utter dope over there thought up pushing this thing so drastically early. It is the equivalent of having to wade through 6 bloody months of ads for the movie '300'! I call that 'user abuse'. What is supposed to be the gain here? As we saw with the Apple stock price, immediately after the iPhone was announced there was a massive price jump in interest. Then people got the clue that this is just another piece of vaporware and the stock price dropped right back to where it was before (which happens to be about where it is right now, despite a goofy comment above).
Do I want an iPhone? As a PDA junky who loves having the very best technology around, damned right! And guess what? I HATE cell phones. I want my private time and I demand it. I tick off everyone when I turn off the phone and I don't care in the least. Tough on them. I can easily do without cell phones (except when I am on the road). But an iPhone, I like. What will stop me from getting one: The price. Yikes. How could Apple SURPRISE us? Drop those prices by $50 or more on the date the thing is finally released. - AllnightChemist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I wouldn't call a commercial "news." Especially one we've all seen by now.
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The downturn that has seen it up several dollars in two days? The initial drop was do to the Chinese market tanking, which sunk the market as a whole - people realized that was the in point and are now buying up Apple stock. Sorry you missed the window.
- cthellis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Oh noes, a product got delayed a couple weeks! It is unheard of! Teh sky is falling!
Just think what might happen to the stock market if the iPhone fell back to... JULY!!! - danielwsmithee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2What stock has not had a general downturn in the last two days? Apple looks like a pretty good buy about now.
- kineticarl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0They've been saying June along. You know, "June" sounds a lot like "Zune". I think this is all a stunt trying to piggyback on Microsoft's popularity.
- dave_colorado, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1cliff, as always, your submissions are excellent and have always made digg better. kudos.
- directive0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1^with dirk.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0http://digg.com/apple/Apple_launched_the_first_TV_ad_for_the_iPhone_during_the_Academy_Awards - iPhone news
- brocklese, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I think they said this so people dont think its going to be delayed, like apple TV was.
- ipodsweatshop, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0This is going to sell like the PS3, especially since they've already admitted to a 3G version in 2008. Huge mistake.
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