When you walk into an AT&T retail outlet, you will see a lot of Android devices. In fact, the majority of the store will be dedicated to devices other than the iPhone, which is exactly the opposite of what you would expect given the carrier’s actual sales and activation numbers.
Apple opened the App Store back on July 10, 2008 with the promise to developers that they would keep 70 percent of whatever price they chose to charge for their apps. Since then, an entire new industry sprang up to meet the needs of iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users, as well as take a stab at getting rich and some did.
And, Apple tallies very nice margins as a result. Further, well over one third of iPhone buyers came from another platform. With Apple preparing to deliver fiscal results for the holiday quarter on Tuesday, perhaps the only meaningful question still unanswered is how good it will all turn out.
In fact, the great majority of them don’t fade away either. Well, perhaps eventually. It seems the great majority of old iPhones get passed to new owners who, in fact, activate and use them. A new study finds a thriving market for hand-me-down and second-hand Apple smartphones — anything’s better than an Android, right?
Don’t just roll your eyes. You really should give this one a full body roll — it’s easier than you think, try it. A market research firm is reporting that Apple’s iPhone is gaining on Android, which means the smartphone war (and the attendant pointless fan boy tantrums) is anything but over.
Apple’s iTunes Ping, the company’s social network for music, was supposed to arrive with Facebook integration baked. In fact, non-public betas clearly had integration, but the final product arrived with it. Although it is still early days, another non-public beta, this still time iOS, shows that Facebook integration is making a comeback. Is this the real deal?
There were riots outside Apple’s Chinese stores and the iPhone 4S isn’t being sold there as a result, right? Actually, the “news” of the non-events in Beijing are much more exciting than the real events once you drill into the details. And, isn’t it interesting that the people who showed to buy iPhones came armed with eggs to throw (just in case)?
Every time a new iPhone goes on sale someplace, there will be lines. Though we’ve seen plenty of this kind of drama captured on film and in pictures around the world, nothing quite compares to what’s going on outside Apple Stores and resellers in China as the iPhone 4S launches.
That sinking feeling of dropping an iPod or iPhone into bowl of soup, glass of beer, a puddle or, not again, the toilet. You might be able to dry it out in a boxful of uncooked rice, but chances are it is dead and never to return. There is hope, however, and it’s all about better living through chemistry.
A half decade ago, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone on the stage at Macworld in San Francisco. Alas, the Apple cofounder has passed and Macworld is a mere shadow of what it once way, but the device continues to shape and shake a once moribund industry. Here’s a look back to the future and why we will never be the same again.
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