More Good News About the 3G iPhone 36 comments
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Just imagine a recently released product that has already grabbed 6.5% of the global smartphone market, behind established players Nokia (NOK) (52.9%) and RIM (RIMM) (11.4%).
Now imagine that the product is upgrading itself to a faster, 3G network that will be available internationally to almost 650 million subscribers should they choose to buy the product.
Such is the plight of Apple's iPhone. The trend towards mass adoption of smartphones has been breathtaking. The New York Times estimates that of the 2 billion cellphones sold last year, some 125 million of them were smartphones. Last year, sales of smartphones were up a staggering 60%. And in North America, the iPhone has already captured 28% of the market.
Now comes news that the new 3G iPhone - expected to drop on June 9th - is loaded. Apple has licensed Microsoft's corporate email technology, which will allow the iPhone to securely link to corporate networks using the technology. The chipset is rumored to be the the SGOLD3H from Infineon - a powerful chipset able to handle the type of 3G networking favored in Japan and Korea, WCDMA. The power and speed opens the door to a myriad of possibilities (GPS, stronger camera, more advanced video and music capabilities and applications). And of course, iPhone syncs with iTunes in a manner that competitors simply can't match.
Given the 650 million size of the potential customer base and the unique nature of the product, the iPhone's profit potential is enormous. With Apple (AAPL) stock surprising down 4.32% over the last 100 days, this might be the time to pick up some shares.
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... where'd you get those numbers? From your front pocket?
" * Doubling the number of Apple stores to facilitate broader adoption.
* Building iTunes into a media storehouse accessible across all screens (phone, TV, PC, etc.).
* Catapulting the iPhone into a 3G global platform that spans networks and geographies.
* Turning the TV into a 21st century device that can manage our media-intensive homes (more on this in a future article).
* Bringing the price point of Macs down further to make switching costs negligible.
* Taking the iBook off the shelf and rebooting it as the breakthrough that the Newton promised (and failed) to be.
* Engineering OSX into a corporate-ready operating system that steals share from the Windows hegemony.
* And, oh yes, evolving the iPod to be an indispensable part of people’s lives for years to come."
All these things except corporate adoption of OSX are probable if history is any indication.
I think Apple's blowing out with this phone in the next couple o' months. We'll see... but don't underestimate this thing.
I did a research on iPod with students. And most of them doesn't care about iPod. What they cared are the function and price. But what makes you think iPhone is unbeatable.Time will tell, but not you.
And you don't think Apple has become a "name brand", even in Asia?
If you'd read the comments, you'd see lots of reasons why Apple will continue to do well, and likely be unbeatable in the market segments and geographies in which they are competing.
to make dumb comments like that at least wait until there is a carrier selling it in the stores in Asia then you can come back and blabber..
Nokia has to lower its price to compete with no brand name cellphones in China.
really ?? sorry but in the cell phone market what innovation have you seen before the iphone came out ??? a bigger camera and thinner phone ?? is that all ?
And it's not that there wasn't competition before Apple entered the market.. the same thing that happened with PCs years of cheap junk and no innovation, the only exciting thing in the PC industry is coming from Apple since the Apple II