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| iPhone coming! »www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/03/···32.shtml
More Apple iPhone Evidence? 4th Quarter 2006?
Sunday March 19, 2006 02:08 PM EST
Posted by arn
According to Mobileread, Barron's online published an online exclusive (subscription required) reporting on comments by Johnny Chan, a Hong Kong based J.P. Morgan analyst, about the looming possibility of an Apple iPhone.
Last week, a Piper Jaffary analyst claimed they felt there was a 75% chance that Apple would release an iPhone in the next 12 months.
The J.P. Morgan reports adds a bit more substance to that claim. According to the article, Apple is working on "an iPod with phone functions" and is shopping around for a electronics manufacturer. Meanwhile, Taiwan Green Point Enterprises, the current manufacturer for the iPod plastic cases is also said to be in talks with Apple about the phone.
"The chatter about the product is all over the food chain," says Bill Shope, Chan's colleague in New York who follows Apple. He believes Apple will likely introduce a cellphone by the fourth quarter of this year.
Apple has long owned the domain iPhone.org and also trademarked the term "iPhone" in Australia and the UK.
A history of the Apple iPhone rumors are summarized in this Guide page. | |
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| Re: iPhone coming! Yes but now the iPod is getting competition from MP3 phones and phones are computers. It's all coming together and this gives Apple a great opportunity to computerize the portable device...and then sell a lot of desktop Macs based on the phone.
I simply cannot see Apple charging $ 200 an iPod in 2007 for a device that plays music only. | |
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| Re: iPhone coming! said by mgaus77  :Yes but now the iPod is getting competition from MP3 phones and phones are computers. It's all coming together and this gives Apple a great opportunity to computerize the portable device...and then sell a lot of desktop Macs based on the phone. I simply cannot see Apple charging $ 200 an iPod in 2007 for a device that plays music only. You forgot videos.
And people still will pay $200, $300, and $400 for an iPod in 2007 because it's functionality is only a part of why it sells so well. It's mostly about the name and the status symbolism.
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| Re: iPhone coming! You know what really makes the iPod (and I don't think its name or status) - it is the appearance of the iPod and its the accessories for the iPod. I used to own an archos, a creative zen and a rio and none of them had anywhere near the accessory count the iPod does. I used to have to use a cassette deck adapter to listen to my other MP3 players while driving and those sound horrible. Now I'm out walking listening to my iPod and I get in my car and I can open my glove box and plug my iPod into my iCruze and listen to my iPod (and control and charge it) via my head unit. Then I come home and I put my nano in my Logitech stereo system in my bedroom and I can listen to my iPod without having to wear headphones. The only way to get other MP3s to work with those sorts of accessories is to use AUX-in jacks. These days someone might buy an iPod just because they can so easily integrate it into their environment.
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| So you're saying it's not going to suck this time?
Seriously, I don't want a phone call even thinking about having the potential for possibly interupting me when I'm listening to music. The two seem so necessarily exclusive.
Besides, who wants to own an iPhone if it doesn't support your cell service? (Only applicable if they develop an iPhone as a replacement to the iPod.)
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jwsmiths4
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| Just because some analysts got together and got a hard-on for an Apple branded phone doesn't mean it will happen. I really don't see Apple making cell phones, it would be cool but they don't have any experience in it and there is already a lot of good competition from Nokia and Motorola and others. Analysts were predicting the mini would be a TiVo killer but it turns out they essentially just added Bonjour to FrontRow. Apple doesn't want to compete with TiVo because they want you to pay to download a show, not to record it off of the air. Apple would only want to sell phones if they could sell some other services with them. The only iPhone I'd expect would be a Sony Ericson or Nokia that had iTunes on it just like the ROKR/SLVR.
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| iPhone coming!
Oh? It's been announced!? There is a solid release date? We know when and where we can buy one? Pricing is set?
I didn't think so.
It's still a rumor; still vaporware as far as I'm concerned. I'm not saying it never will happen, but your subject line is a tad misleading. Even the article you quoted avoided the hyperbole by using question marks...
As for the iPhone, iWillWait.
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| I hope they don't use the same knucklehead who designed that hideous and underperforming iPod hifi to make this phone.
Wake me up when Steve's holding it in his hands on a stage somewhere.
Mac product speculation is worse than Superbowl hype that goes on for the two weeks preceeding the game every year.
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| Re: iPhone coming! said by GilbertMark :I hope they don't use the same knucklehead who designed that hideous and underperforming iPod hifi to make this phone. Actually, I hear the HiFi is selling relatively well.
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San Diego, CA | I think the Hi-Fi is kinda cool looking myself.It would fit in nicely in any mid century/modern space with it's 2001 Space Age looks. | |
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| Re: iPhone coming! This $ 12 MP3 player is why the iPhone is needed...because something that plays music on the go should be $12 and fit in your lighter jeans pocket...but a smartphone with computer and Treo like functionality should be a few hundred dollars for a long time
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| Re: iPhone coming! said by mgaus77 :This $ 12 MP3 player is why the iPhone is needed...because something that plays music on the go should be $12 and fit in your lighter jeans pocket...but a smartphone with computer and Treo like functionality should be a few hundred dollars for a long time » www.tigerdirect.com/applications···WEM1080C Yet the iPod is outselling all of them.
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1 edit | Re: iPhone coming! Yes Apple is the best
Yes Apple is outselling all other MP3 players
But this little $ 12 guy will play 35 hours of songs.
Bottom line an iPod is a simple storage device. Linear. It plays this song or the other.
A Treo is on the other hand, besides a phone, a recorder, a Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Mail/iCal/iPhoto device that lets you receive a file, edit it and send it back edited. Like a real computer in your pocket. With live TV watching, as many MP3s you can fit in a 8 gig SD (some 1600 songs), and 25,000 Palm programs.
Now the Palm has too many features and too many programs. No order and no discipline...crashing often, and not Apple sexy.
The iPhone is needed. That is why Apple is going for it. And I am proud of Apple for it. I think they should have 2 iPhones:
iPhone and iPowerPhone. One looks like a small phone, the other has a keyboard laser projection and is like a Treo power device. | |
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| Re: iPhone coming! 35 hours? It says it will record 35 hours of voice, which is about the lowest quality audio you're gonna get. If you like listening to mp3s at 32k bitrate, hey, knock yourself out.
You're just outta control with your iPhone dreams now. Laser projected keyboard? What the hell's the point of a PDA if you need somewhere to project the keyboard? Not to mention that iPowerPhone might be the dumbest name in history.
Apple MIGHT introduce a phone. I'm pretty sure it will be nothing like what you described. I think it's time for you to go outside.
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| Re: iPhone coming! With that big eye Ball one would think you'd have some vision.
If you are gonna play the storage game, you're gonna lose. SD cards that 1 year ago were breaking the 1 Gig range are now 1 year later 8 Gigs. Next year SD cards will be 60 Gigs.
So any SD enabled MP3 player will, depending on what SD card you put in, play songs. At 5 megs a song, 8 Gigs hold 1600 songs. Enough to commute.
1600 songs are at 3 minutes per song or 80 hours.
There are other MP3 players out there. I was not pushing people to buy the $ 12 MP3 player. My point is MP3 players are quickly becoming a commodity, as what they do is simple.
I was really congratulating Apple in coming out with the iPhone. Those 5 rumours from Mac Buyer in the last week are not for nothing.
What I think we should be doing instead of saying it is stupid for Apple to bring out an iPhone is to help instead in brainstorming as to what features we want in it.
OK the laser kbd was pushing it. Camera? Wifi? 320 x 320 screen like a Treo? Speakerphone? Mini keyboard like a Treo or like a Nokia? | |
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| Re: iPhone coming! Which of these rumored products would you be most likely to buy?
Video iPod 26.88 % (586)
Mac Tablet 28.07 % (612)
Apple iPhone 34.04 % (742)
No interest in any of them 11.01 % (240)
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rexbinary
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| I have a cell phone with a bluetooth headset.
The phone has streaming video news, weather, sports, and music. Also supports buying music, games, and other applications, a web browser, and a camera. I played with all that stuff for about one week.
Now I never touch the phone other then dropping it in my pocket or clipping it to my belt. I click the button on my headset and dial by voice, or answer a call. That's it.
So while I suppose there are people that are interested in a 'super phone', I would not be one of them.
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| Re: iPhone coming! Dear Rex
It appears that you are using your phone as a simple phone. No problem. You are not using it for music, for games, for web, for camera. Sounds like you don't have a long commute, or that when out you are not the connected type.
No problem. There are 1000 behaviors when "out."
Fine. Sometimes the best time is quiet time.
Now I am the same way half the time. But when I go out for vacation, or here in Florida with the hurricanes I spent 21 days outside home and office (no power, no gasoline, no food in Miami at the supermarkets), my Treo was my email, my browser, etc. I even purchased an Apple laptop during that time in the Orlando store. Being connected was important to the business, to entertaintment. Sometimes I go walking the dog and listen to music.
At any rate, there is no question that more and more phones are incorporating more and more features.
And the whole point of the Apple experience is to be not less technology adept, but rather more ease-into-technology...like friendly-technology devices that let you do this and that easier than with the competition.
Sounds like Apple is getting an iPhone. After it comes out all will love it. For now I'd like to get some support. The survey mentioned above provides that. | |
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1 edit | Re: iPhone coming! Hey Dog we are in the same city why don't you come over and put one on me? You mad enough?
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Miami, FL | Re: iPhone coming! I could, but that would probably go along with a hefty installation fee. Gotta make money somehow these days.
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