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Apple's iPhone Rocks the Cell Phone Industry

Well mister_miggs, apparently $709 won't buy you a computer with shift keys that work. That alone is worth the extra $1691!! I'm sorry your Dell has confined you, but then again, it looks like you belong in the lowercase...

Apple's iPhone Rocks the Cell Phone Industry

I think the numbers reported above are way off as well. However, I think they are biased the opposite way that James Cullen believes.

"The Alliance is a research network of 10,000 business, technology and medical professionals who spend their everyday lives working on the front line of technological change."

I think the terms "research" and "technological change" are important to consider. I think this is a group who is looking at technology and what it can do. I don't think this is a group of bleeding edge early adopters. I just don't see that in this group of people.

Regardless, there seems to be a belief in some circles that the iPhone won't appeal to the business community because it lacks "so many important applications". (because how many time have I seen someone doing their company's annual report on a Blackberry!!) The point is, I believe the last group to want an iPhone is "business professionals".

So if Paul's research says nearly 1 in 10 of the Alliance will buy an iPhone, then that's great news, because they aren't the group that is going to push iPhone sales. It's the "young crowd" who wants the latest, greatest, hippest devices; not John Starchly, CPA.

If the pricing is the best argument that people can come up with, then they have forgotten all too quickly our history. The first iPods, giant bricks by today's standards, were $499!! And all they did was play music. My first Treo, $650!! And it is a piece of dung. So the price argument is really some lame attempt at attacking an innovative device. The iPhone is just the beginning. It's not the end all be all device... yet.

And finally, there is a group of consumers, myself included, who could care less about the iPod feature of the iPhone. We could care less about the "Phone" in iPhone. It's all about a mobile device that works seamlessly with our Macs. Now I can take my calendar, contacts, email, favorite websites, etc., and sync them with my phone. Period. No special middleware, no palm desktop, no weird syncing behavior. Just two OS X devices communicating freely.

**Mac zealot or not, I'm glad I bought AAPL back in 2003. With the split, that's almost a 15 bagger!! I can afford several iPhones. Sorry if you own MSFT.