Kevin Rose on Diggnation has proclaimed that the next iPhone OS, iPhone 3.0 will finally incorporate copy and paste into its software. Kevin goes on to say that this release will bring the interface up to the level of the Palm Pre. Check out the link below for the video of his predictions. Or you can just wait until the 17th and see if his predictions are true.
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Do you have $1000 that you really want to get rid of? Well, I can provide you with my address. However, if you also have an iPhone you can download this amazing App that does nothing but prove rich people are not necessarily smart people. This App is called “I Am Rich” and has the description:
“The red icon on your iPhone or iPod touch always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were rich enough to afford this,” the app’s information page says in iTunes. “It’s a work of art with no hidden function at all.”
Talk about snobbery. This is definitely a slap in the face for all the other App devs out there trying to get Apple to approve their App for the App Store. This App raises the question of whether or not Apple even checks these Apps befor approval. How did this slip by? I guess the chance that Apple could grab that nice 30% of the sale was enough for them to let it slide.
Source: Alley Insider
To the casual observer, Apple has never been more successful: more than one million 3G iPhones were sold in the first weekend, millions of apps were downloaded, and the company is churning out buckets of cash.
But I get the feeling that something is not right with Apple.
Leave aside for the moment the seemingly-deepening hardware shortages: frantically popular hardware products are always in short supply at launch, and often even for months or years afterward (Nintendo Wiis remain elusive, and the company is girding for a third straight Christmas season shortage, if you can believe it). The first iPhone would have been just as scarce if it had been as heavily subsidized as the 3G version.
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I am not so sure that I would declare that Apple has become Microsoft, yet. However, they make a valid point due to all the troubles with getting the recent iPhones activated, the upgraded software for the first generation iPhones, and the whole MobileMe meltdown where customers are not getting their mail at all in some cases. The demand was tremendously high and Apple should have known about this. If they did not have the capacity to handle all the traffic at once, which is the obvious case, then they should have released these products in batches. For example release the iPhone and once all of them were activated, release the MobileMe service. Or, they should have just beefed up their system and just had the capacity that they are eventually going to need.
It’s good to see consumers holding them accountable rather than having all the fanboys viciously defend them. I think this will be more of the case as they grow since not all consumers share the same lust for a product that they are willing to defend it even if it fails.
As many of you may notice, this site uses Wordpress as the blogging software. I use it for a variety of reasons mostly due to the fact that it is highly developed and there are a lot of plugins available for flexbility. And now there is a Wordpress app out for the iPhone so that you can take your blogging mobile. You can even add a picture that you have taken with your phone to your blog. Pretty neat stuff, now if I just had an iPhone! Is there anything this phone can’t do? Take a look at the video over at CrunchGear.
Full Article: CrunchGear
Just when I was getting ready to get the iPhone, the Blackberry Thunder decides to have its pictures leaked. Not much information to go on, but according to Crackberry.com it features a tactile response screen, its full QWERTY and the glass screen is also multi-touch. The latest rumored release date is early September; I can wait, right? Maybe I just got caught up in the iPhone hype. I guess my quest for a new phone just got delayed a bit as I wait for more information.
Full Article: Crackberry.com
Today Steve Jobs released the long awaited iPhone 3G at WWDC. Along with the announcement came another great surprise, a $199 starting price tag for the 8GB version compared to the previous $399. The 16GB version will drop to $399. The catch is you have to sign up for a contract, but you pretty much had to do that before anyhow, so now users truly benefit. Apple has also taken it easy on late adopters allowing people who purchased an iPhone after May 27th to swap theirs out for a new 3G version. The iPhone 3G will start shipping on July 11th for those who are interested.
Full Article: Engadget
According to the Financial Times, Apple will allow wireless providers to give a contract subsidy with the release of the latest iPhone. By allowing this, the price should drop to below $200 on the entry level iPhone which is currently at $399. By doing this, it should give Apple a better chance to hit its goal of 10 million iPhones sales in 2008. Currently, there have only been 1.7 million units sold, which might have resulted from the rumors of a new version of the iPhone being released. We shall see when the next iPhone is finally unveiled and all the specifics are released.
Full Article: Financial Times
AT&T (T) is planning to put some extra shine on the even sleeker new Apple (AAPL) iPhone.
When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200, according to a person familiar with the strategy.
AT&T is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of a new iPhone, bringing the price down to $199 for customers who sign two-year contracts, the source says. Apple is expected to have two versions of the new iPhone, an 8-gigabyte-memory and a 16-gigabyte-memory model with price tags widely expected to be $399 and $499.
AT&T and Apple declined to comment.
Source: Fortune
While this is a rumor, it would be great news. I don’t see what reason AT&T would have not to subsidize the iPhone. They sell great at retail price, and since you have to sign a contract anyhow, they would sell even more units at a cheaper price. I know I will be getting an iPhone once my Verizon contract is up.
The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in research notes on Thursday.
The 3G iPhone will be the “first of an impressive wave of new products” from Apple, wrote Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee. They also expect an updated Mac laptop and iPod lines. The Apple conference is scheduled for June 9-13 in San Francisco.
In addition to a 3G iPhone release in early June, the 2.5G model could have a “minor casing change” and a price drop to between US$299 and $349, compared to the current $399, wrote Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, in a research report.
Those predictions are consistent with a February prediction Gardner made that 3G iPhones will be announced by midyear. The 3G iPhone release will help Apple meet its target of shipping 10 million iPhones in 2008, Gardner wrote at the time.
Full Article: Yahoo!
June should be an interesting month for Apple. WWDC should bring a lot of new stuff hopefully the 3G iPhone as well as new designs for the Macbooks. I know I will be looking forward to see if these rumors come true.