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Apple: Six Factors To Watch Beside The iPhone

And why is the iPhone insignificant to whether you buy Apple stock or not? Are you missing the boat completely here or what?

What drives Apple's profits, business, and stock? The Mac? Don't so foolish. The iPod is the only reason Apple is now one of the worlds biggest companies. But this is where Apple have a problem. They know that in a few years time stand a lone mp3 players will be all but dead. You will have you mp3 player on your phone. Research has already shown a growing number of European and Japanese consumers who are using mp3 players on their phones. But once battery life is sorted and 8gb+ is standard on phones (which is only a year or so away) then the iPod is dead.

The problem is that Apple sell their iPods for a lot of money. These phones will come free from mobile phone operators while Apple try and flog theirs for $500.

I see a continuing good upward trend of AAPL for the next year but the iPhone will not continue that trend in it's current form. For $500 it should not only be shinier than it's rivals but it should be better spec'd. And that's where it fails.

Compare the new Nokia N95 to the new iPhone and you have a one horse race. Particularly when you consider that a few months after the N95's release it will be free on contract. Let me see...

5 megapixel, mp3 playing, 3g, GPS navigating phone that is smaller, lighter and much cheaper than a phone with 2 megapixel camera, 8gb mp3 player and is shiny. And that's even before we go into the fact that Nokia phones are almost indestructible and will last years compared to a company who has never made a phone in it's history.