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Apple's iPhone and the Future of AT&T

"Wow! I was thinking that Apple would go for market share"

Apple is going for marketshare, what do you think billions of mobile user in the world use as a standard. "GSM"

iPhone: Apple Making All the Wrong Moves

I think the key whether Apple will succeed or not in the long term as a phone maker is dependant on Apple's ability to bring the ease of use user interface from their other products to the mobile platform and to create seamless conectivity and synergy with computers, OSX or Windows. All the mobile devices that are available today has lousy user interface and doesn't work well with computers. This is on the top of the list of Apple as I think one of the first statement Steve Job made when introducing the iphone is about how bad the user interfaces are in todays mobile devices. If this is achieve then Apple's future as a mobile device maker will be bright. At lease even if this doesn't happen, the mobile devices makers has already made a big effort in bring a competitive product out the next six months which has greatly accelerated the development and advancement of mobile devices. The user will be the greatest winner. As they say a little competition doesn't hurt.

iPhone: Apple Making All the Wrong Moves

So is Motorola, but its top phones has been launched oversea up to a year being available in the US. In the overall scheme of things, the US mobile phone market is not a leader.

iPhone: Apple Making All the Wrong Moves

Typical Typical American centric arrogance that if it doesn't work in US it doesn't work anywhere else. If you consider that most phone companies launches and sell most of their high end phone in other parts of the world and then launching the phone in US a year or two later, it is more amazing that iPhone is launch in the US first. Maybe because it will take time to build up the supply to satisfy the world market or waiting for the 3.5G version to be ready. Another reason is probably Apple can generate a lot more free media promotion then launching the iPhone overseas.