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Monday, May 12, 2008

More iPhone Carriers

via DarinFireball, more carriers to offer iPhones in Singapore, India, the Philippines and Australia.

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

More iPhone Deals

MEXICO CITY, May 7 (Reuters) - America Movil AMXL.MX said on Wednesday it would sell Apple Inc's (AAPL) iPhone across Latin America this year, a deal that could extend its lead in the region over Telefonica TEF.MC.


Mmm, why is AAPL falling?

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Vodafone to sell iPhone

Vodafone announced that it will sell the iPhone in Australia as well as "in the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey." via http://www.smh.com.au/

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Monday, February 25, 2008

16 GB iPhone

I'm not sure when exactly this was released, but it looks like there's a new 16 GB iPhone available now.

Update: According to Wikipedia, this was released Feb. 5th 2008 along with a 32GB iPod Touch.

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Saturday, February 09, 2008

iPhone's business play

The biggest complaint about the iPhone since its sale has been that it is not business friendly compared to competing products such as the BlackBerry and Windows Mobile phones. Mainly "business friendly" means "integration with Microsoft Exchange" as that it the predominant enterprise email server. These business power users often cite push email as the killer app on their smartphones.

My thinking is that Apple certainly realizes this and would be foolish not to go after the business users. That's why it has also allied itself with Yahoo, a notable Google competitor. There are a few iPhone widgets which use Yahoo's webservices instead of Google's, so there's no doubt there's a close relationship between Apple and Yahoo.

And iPhone does have push email. It's Yahoo Mail. But which company ever uses Yahoo Mail? That's true, but don't forget that Zimbra was recently purchased by Yahoo, and Zimbra's groupware suite offers a viable alternative to Exchange.

Could this help propel the iPhone into the enterprise space?

But as you know, last week Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo (just today Yahoo's board rejected the offer). Now that's a powerful play by the Redmond Giant, one that could transform the tech landscape. But that also threw a monkey wrench into relationship between Yahoo and its partners such as Apple. What will Apple do if Yahoo is gobbled up by its nemesis? The plan to bring the iPhone to business users may be stalled.

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Friday, January 18, 2008

MWSF Notes

So my Macworld 08 trip is officially over now. I stood in line since 3:00 am, waited for 6 hours, and finally was shuffled into the reality distortion field of Steve Jobs' keynote. I didn't bother doing any live blogging, as most people out there were probably following the keynote coverage from Engadget, Gizmodo, or any other number of blogs.

And by now, you know the Jobs announced a new Time Capsule, AppleTV, updates to iPhone, and the new MacBook Air. A good amount of people were expecting even more, and were kind of disappointed about the announcements. Considering the growing popularity of Apple, and huge amount of hype and media coverage, I would say Steve jobs has done an excellent job with the keynote.

I think Time Capsule, although not very glamorous, is a great device. Combined with Time Machine, this little device basically fulfills most if not all the needs of a small business and definitely the average user. It covers networking, file and printer sharing, and backups. I believe this is basically the Mini-XServe. Perhaps the only thing missing is VPN access, however the Back2MyMac service provided by a .Mac account does address this somewhat.

As expected, and possible purposely leaked, iTunes movie rentals was released. Apple TV was also upgraded to offer more of what users want to do on their monster HDTVs. These things were expected and needed. The surprise was that Jobs was able to sign up ALL the major studios. Finally, the big studios are 'getting it'. There's no point in fighting advances in technology, instead of spending millions and millions of dollars fighting the inevitable and suing THEIR customers they should have been embracing the new technologies.

iPhone got it's slew of updates. Most significant I think was geo location without GPS. The technology has been around for a while, so it wasn't too exciting of an announcement. Plus, Google announced the technology for Google Maps Mobile late last year already. Other continued software updates to iPhone, while not very exciting, is confirms Apple's commitment to continue improving the iPhone over the years. It is actually quite encouraging for new users to know that their $399 is well spent, and their phone won't be worthless right away.

And then there's the MacBook Air. This is pretty much everything I wanted. Super light weight laptop, with good performance and a long battery life. It is pricey, but not that out of line with other ultra portables. Nowadays most people just need to be online and run a few office applications. I think it will be a big seller, and I'm sure the technology will soon migrate to the rest of the MacBook line.

Overall, it was a good start for Apple this year.

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Tuesday, December 04, 2007

iPhone browser market share higher than WindowsCE

Wow, pretty amazing that iPhone / iPod web browser market share is at 0.9% already. The statistics was published by Net Applications.

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Thursday, November 01, 2007

News: iPhone going to Germany Nov. 9th

See the Google translated German Apple Store page...

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Monday, October 22, 2007

Another stellar quarter for Apple

We are fans of Apple products here at the company, in case you haven't noticed. We work with Windows and Unix platforms, too, but Macs have a special place in our work (and life). We didn't jump on the bandwagon, however, as it took years of working in IT to appreciate the simplicity of Macs. Plug-and-play, not plug-and-pray. It just works.

So it comes as no surprise that Apple announced another profitable quarter -- $904 million richer. Macs, iPods, and iPhones all sold very well, and Apple continues to increase its PC market share.

What's the secret? Create great products, and people will buy 'em.

As more people become Mac users, Jambo Consulting is well positioned to help along the way. Each year we've seen more and more small businesses take the leap into using Macs, and no one has regretted making that decision.

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Sunday, October 14, 2007

My iPhone, my digital hub

Can you believe we haven't mentioned the iPhone since it went on sale in June? iPhone mania was everywhere, starting with folks spending the night in front of Apple Stores, and now with the controversy about iPhone hacking (to run 3rd party software).

Both Edward and I were present at the keynote where Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in front of the world, and believe me, it was probably one of the most exciting Apple moments in my lifetime. Since then, like many others, I started counting down the days of the iPhone sale date.

But no, I wasn't an early adopter of the iPhone. In my opinion it was priced too high. My phone was the Nokia E61, a Symbian smartphone that had all the bells and whistles to keep my life in order. It had a full QWERTY thumb keyboard so I can type those important emails and IMs. It was a very business-y phone.

Yet that $599 shiny thinness was like no other phone in the market. Then it became $399 and I was sold. The fact that I was already a AT&T Wireless customer made the decision a bit easier. The next day after the price drop was announced, I stopped by a local Apple Store and handed over my credit card with a mental note to sell my iPod Video 30GB and Nokia E61 on eBay ASAP.

Despite its deficiencies (yes, there are several), there is no doubt that Apple had hit another home run with the iPhone. It is beautifully designed, and with a OS X soul, the user experience is unlike anything. Think back to when you FIRST encountered/used an Apple product... Remember that feeling? (The Newton PDA for me.)

So now instead of keeping three devices (phone, iPod, digital camera), I just have an iPhone. Sometimes it even replaces my laptop as the Web browsing machine, thanks to MobileSafari (none of that crappy WAP). With the latest firmware update, even iTunes is available on the iPhone to spend more money on the go.

Steve Jobs wanted the Mac to be my digital hub. I'm sure he doesn't mind the iPhone being my digital hub.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Apple iPhone Non-sense

It seems like many critics are going out of their way to critisize Apple's iPhone. First, the iPhone's too expensive, then the price cut is too much too soon, and now selling 1 million iPhones in 74 days is too slow.

Blackfriars' is right, I think selling a million of anything in two months is pretty awesome. Another point I would add to their list is that the 1 million iPhones sold were only sold in the US. Woudn't the sales accelerate even more as Apple starts rolling out the iPhone to International markets? I think it would be pretty difficult for Apple to maintain "a consistent rate" of iPhone sales even if they tried.

I don't know guys, I think there are more people living outside of the US than inside... Maybe we should send these critics some maps fromhttp://mapsforus.org/.

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