Uncle Miltie

Apple: The Microsoft of Smartphones?

Do you have ANY clue how any cell phones are paid for here in the US? It's called subsidies. The same subsidy they get from AT&T is similar to the ones Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile give out for their phones. Apple's may be a bit higher, but that's almost exclusively due to the demand for their product. And bash AT&T all you want, but they are at least smart enough to understand how much the iPhone has positively impacted their bottom line.


On Aug 04 06:12 PM Frank Castle wrote:

> Once they stop getting the sub from at&t what will their profit
> margin be per iPhone? I'd really like to hear some sales on the
> 3G and what margin that is getting them.
>
> Once they leave at&t (which I doubt before mid 2010 if not later)
> they will have the same slim margin all other cell phone makers deal
> with.

Apple Asks Microsoft to 'Quit Running Those Laptop Hunters Ads'

I call BS on this one. It sounds like typical FUD coming from Redmond.

Does anyone actually believe that Apple would call Microsoft and ask them to stop running the ads? If there was any call - which is debateable - it would have likely been the legal department threatening some legal action due to MS calling them by name in a derrogatory manner in their commercial.

Common sense, people. This was uttered at a MS convention. If you believe this at face value, then I have some oceanfront property in Arizona for sale...

Revisiting the iPhone's Browsing Market Share

Dig down a little into that report (page 4), and you'll see why this is meaningless. 4 of the top 6 devices are Motorola phones which have no web browsing capability - only a severly limited version of the mobile web. The top individual handset for market share? The Motorola RAZR V3.

Based on that flawed data, the report and this blog post are also meaningless...