iPhone Outsells – Most Everything In Its Class
Comment from: Mr. Peabody
@baukunst
Your comment inspires me to wonder what would happen if VOiP were in such a state that a telephone developer could distribute their product with service without having to get into bed with the big cell phone companies. I wonder how close we are to a possibility like that. With phones that have WiFi built in it seems like the infra-structure is there, of course coverage would be nowhere near what cellular coverage is now, but if the demand for it was great enough perhaps that would drive the WiFi infrastructure to expand much faster. That would be a good thing not only for voice communications but for wireless computing in general.
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Comment from: baukunst
The real problem is AT&T;.
I walked into an AT&T;store this weekend
to check out the plans before walking across
the street to the Apple Store, and I was so
disappointed with AT&T;that I walked out.
The iPhone is the most gorgeous object I
have seen in a long time, but AT&T;is a
horrible match.
I’m waiting until some changes happen.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 – 11:59 AM EDT — Apple Stock Quote: 142.85 (+4.37, +3.16%)
Apple iPhone outsells all so-called ‘smartphones’ in U.S. in July
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 – 10:15 AM EDT
“Apple Inc’s iPhone outsold all smartphones in the United States in July, its first full month on sale, accounting for 1.8 percent of all U.S. mobile handset sales, research group iSuppli said on Tuesday,” Reuters reports.
”iSuppli reiterated its forecast that Apple would sell 4.5 million iPhones this year, rising to more than 30 million in 2011,” Reuters reports.
”The two models of the iPhone [4GB and 8GB] on the market sold more than Research in Motion’s Blackberry series, the entire Palm portfolio and any individual smartphone model from Motorola, Nokia or Samsung,” Reuters reports.
”Most buyers of iPhones in the United States in July were male, under 35 and had a college degree, iSuppli said,” Reuters reports. “A quarter of those who bought an iPhone switched to operator AT&T, which has an exclusive service agreement for the iPhone in the United States.”
Reuters reports, “‘While iSuppli has not collected historical information on this topic, it’s likely that the speed of the iPhone’s rise to competitive dominance in its segment is unprecedented in the history of the mobile-handset market,’ iSuppli said.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Magicpony" for the heads up.]
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