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Title: Apple laptops and iPhones big sellers
Post by: krissel on August 22, 2007, 09:50:07 AM

Dell takes a hit:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/21/...ormation_1.html

iPhones will reach goal:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070821/tc_nm/...VAG3qC3ycME1vAI

T-Mobile gets Germany iPhone contract:

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews...20070821?rpc=44

Title: Apple laptops and iPhones big sellers
Post by: Gregg on August 22, 2007, 12:17:43 PM

QUOTE

Apple satisfies. The poll claims 86 percent of those who bought a Mac over the past 90 days report being "Very Satisfied" with their purchase -- by far the highest of any manufacturer.

Title: Apple laptops and iPhones big sellers
Post by: danf63 on August 22, 2007, 08:39:43 PM

Too bad T-Mobile here didn't get the contract. I know their network isn't big enough, but I've been with them for almost 5 years and I've always been happy with them.

Dan

Title: Apple laptops and iPhones big sellers
Post by: RHPConsult on August 24, 2007, 06:57:51 PM

Here's your "answer", Dan . . . just saw this kid on the evening news . . . wonder how long this will "work" before AT&T/Apple figure out how to unfix the fix?    Unlocking the iPhone

Title: Apple laptops and iPhones big sellers
Post by: kcourt on August 24, 2007, 10:48:20 PM

I guess he is selling it on E-bay, the bid is already up over $1,200.... and I imagine AT&T isn't too happy over it.

Smart kid.

Kathy

Title: Apple laptops and iPhones big sellers
Post by: RHPConsult on August 25, 2007, 03:35:41 AM

In case anyone is contemplating an ATT iPhone purchase, here's a consumer report after one month of enthusiastic usage. Literally the only complaint I have about ATT has nothing really to do with any phone they've ever had to offer, that I've had occasion to use over the past 15-20 years - my other-brand "phone-feature-complaints" are many), but

• ATT presently (and still) has NO, that's EN-OH, coverage in much of Coshocton County, OH, a site we regularly visit.
• Whatever were the arrangements (up 'til 5-6 years ago) with Verizon to "pick-up" ATT customers when calling from that pleasant locale, they no longer exist to benefit ATT subscribers, probably understandable in today's competitive climate, but  d-u-m-b,  nevertheless.

With respect to the iPhone,

1. Except for no ToDo list, its features exceed every feature/benefit of every Palm(Pilot) I've ever owned (approx. 20 years) – even though iCal does have a kinda kludgy ToDo list;
2. Absolutely EVERYTHING else simply radiates efficiencncy/elegance - filing and later finding contacts, making calls, using the speaker, noting recent calls, adjusting a fantastic list of on-board ring tones, surfing the web for really useful pages, displaying (magnificantly) more photos than an ordinary motal might ever need to tote around in a shirt pocket
3. Surfing the web for essential web pages  - even YouTube if that's your proclivity
4. Displaying (magnificantly) more photos than an ordinary mortal might ever need to tote around in a shirt pocket
5. Having instantly available the niftiest set of timers and clocks I've used in 40 years iof professional consulting
6. No GPS (no kitchen sink, either) but a slick-as-glass integration imaginable of Google maps and your AddressBoook
7. Since this is my FIRST iPod (hard to believe, right?) eveything about that "benefit" is dazzling, whether Beethoven, Pavane for a Dead Princess, or The Buckeye Battle Cry, OR listening to Bill Bryson read his own books, unabridged!
8. Lightning fast stock quotes, with 5-year, 2-year, 1-year, 1-month, daily averages graphs
9. Text messaging that's worked superbly to, e.g., Australia this past week, as well as todowntown San Francisco
10. A camera I haven't had occasion to use, as yet
11. Syncing with more than one Mac so easy and faultless it's, well, humbling  
12. etc., etc., etc., not to mention the astounding "Buck Riogers" touch screen and accelerometer

The "solution" to the ToDo "oversight" is here, via a simple web-app I'd never previously encountered, in a really slick substitute . . . Great ToDo substitute - more than a "substitute"
Summary: The Leader and his Merry Cupertino Band are geniuses.

True, I've heard about the 75+ page ATT invoices (haven't seen my first one yet) but that may be useful for comic relief, if nothing else.

Value for investment? Average Palm = $300 + 8 gig iPod = $300 seems to mean an OSX Mac in your pocket, and the most elegant phone extant, are  f-r-e-e. Anything about that requiring New Math?

Finally, for perhaps only a small subset of readers, Oticon is now selling a new and amazing set of cutting-edge stereo, digital hearing aids with a Bluetooth streamer that executes instantaneously seamless integration w/iPhone, which means now  I hear my cell calls better than a 15-year old. Priceless! Believe me.

The End.

Thank you, Steven P. Jobs, et al.

Is this a great (and creative) company, or not? (Yes, I am a shareholder, but I also bought my own iPhone )  

Title: Apple laptops and iPhones big sellers
Post by: jepinto on August 25, 2007, 05:36:58 AM

Is there any "talk", "rumors", "coming attractions", etc. hinting of GPS on the iPhone?  That would probably cinch it the deal for me.

Title: Apple laptops and iPhones big sellers
Post by: pendragon on August 25, 2007, 07:25:54 AM

Jennie,

A google search (GPS, iPhone) netted many hits. These two think GPS may appear in 2008:

Apple Tech News

The Gadget Website

Title: Apple laptops and iPhones big sellers
Post by: RHPConsult on August 25, 2007, 11:06:27 AM

Which would mean, I guess, you actually can gild a lily . . . so to speak.