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Contrary to Some Opinions, Apple Doesn't Do Loss Leaders

. . . and if it GOES lower I will BUY more.

Sorry . . . typing too fast.

Contrary to Some Opinions, Apple Doesn't Do Loss Leaders

@sane_man

Apple schooled EVERYONE on how to do EXACTLY what you are talking about. Just look at the iPod. They will intro new versions of iPhones and drop the price of the current version . . . slowly . . . to maximize their return. They will go above and below the current iPhone to protect their market AND their margins. Can you say Shuffle. Even at the lower end of the product range they own the market . . . because they slowly built the eco-system to support it. That is what the SDK for iPhone is all about. It takes time to build a solid business, not price adjustments. A cheap version of an iPhone made by someone else without the hundreds of capabilities that the SDK will bring will be worth about as much as that old walkman you mention. I'll keep my apple stock thanks . . . and if it go's a smidge lower I will by more.

Employees Determine iPhone Success in Business

Carl, great point about the transition away from main frames to PCs, I remember lots of grumbling IT guys that were complaining about how to get all those PC onto a network.
The iPhone as a business tool is already happening. Lots of small businesses and entrepreneurs can suddenly get the internet and email on the go WITHOUT an IT department. For us the iPhone is infinitely simpler to get up and running with. We have no simple, inexpensive way of setting up a Blackberry either.
EVERY single corporate meeting I go to stops when my iPhone is noticed, IT STOPS THE MEETING. I'm not kidding, love it or hate it everyone is curious. By the time you get to the photos of your kids or the internet . . . they are busy trying to figure out how long before their current phone plan is up. Third party apps will be written specific to what a business needs, and real work will get done on an easy to learn device . . . which spells productivity. I give lots of presentations of product concepts, so just being able to play a short video (on a GREAT screen) for someone at a moments notice, is worth the cost of the phone.