Although Apple has declined to make an overt push into the corporate market, a few daring business customers bought iPhones anyway. And they like them.
Three out of five business customers (59 percent) who bought an iPhone said they were “very satisfied” with it, leading all other smart phones, according to a survey on corporate IT spending conducted by Rockville, Md.-based ChangeWave Research.
While Research in Motion ranked second on the customer satisfaction question with 47 percent saying they were “very satisfied” with their BlackBerries, ChangeWave notes this is an 8 percent decline from the previous survey.
Source: Baltimore Sun
It’s not a software development kit, but there is something new today for iPhone owners.
Apple released OS X firmware update 1.1.4 Tuesday for the iPhone, saying little about the new features. The last update, 1.1.3, introduced a few new capabilities such as the ability to customize the home page, but the only thing noted as new in 1.1.4 are “bug fixes,” which are probably welcome.
It’s not clear at this early juncture whether the new update does anything to the legions of jailbroken and unlocked iPhones out in the world, but if you’re one of those users living outside Apple’s user agreement, you might want to hold off installing the update until more details are uncovered. We’ll update if we hear more.
In addition, so far on Tuesday we’ve learned nothing new about Apple’s iPhone software development kit, expected to arrive sometime this week before the end of February. It was a busy day for the company, though, with new MacBooks and MacBook Pros making an appearance in Apple stores.
Source: CNET
New numbers from the NPD Group put the iPhone in sixth place in total mobile phone sales in the US for 2007, despite having only been on the market for half the year. The 3.7 million iPhones Apple reported shipping last year give it roughly 2.5% of the market that NPD figures at 146 million handsets.
A story on Electronista.com notes that there wasn’t much change among the top players, with Motorola keeping a lock on the number-one spot with 32% of the US market. The only significant move, according to the NPD report, was Samsung sliding up to 17% and stealing the number-two slot from LG, which remained stagnant with 16%.
Add in Nokia and Sanyo in fourth and fifth place respectively and Apple took sixth place from…whom exactly? Reader comments on both Electronista and Ars Technica, which also picked up the story, note that “6th place” might sound impressive when you first hear it, but then ask: How many people can even name any other mobile phone makers?
By Susan Schrank
Via: PDA Street
SHANGHAI, China (UPI) — The popularity of Apple’s iPhone is undermining the company’s potential profits in China, a Monday report said.
Apple has been pursuing an exclusivity contract with China Mobile to introduce the phone there. But contract negotiations have broken down, The New York Times reported.
But, the product is so popular smugglers have been busy supplying the Chinese market with the phones, which sell in China for $400 to $600. Chinese manufacturers are also busy making clones of the iPhone — known collectively as iClones.
Installing Chinese language software in smuggled phones adds about $25 to the price and smugglers charge about $30 per phone, the report said.
The number of iPhones in China is unknown, but there is a gap in the number of iPhones Apple sold last year — 3.7 million — and the 2.3 million that are registered in the United States and Europe.
Apple could lose $1 billion in the next three years by missing out on roughly $120 per phone it would get if an exclusivity contract was signed.
“The (business) model is threatened,” said Charles R. Wolf, an industry analyst.
Via: hispanicbusiness.com
According to market research firm In-Stat, over 400,000 of Apple’s iPhone product are being used with the China Mobile provider despite the lack of availability of iPhone in China and breakdown of talks between the two companies. The company sold 3.7 million iPhones in 2007, and there was a noticeable gap between the number of units sold and those that were activated by providers in the U.S. and Europe that Apple holds exclusive deals with.
Apple has fought off iPhone unlocking as well as it can but it has been turned into a business for entrepreneurs and an ongoing challenge for intelligent developers and hackers. The lucrative revenue sharing deals Apple has signed with providers do not apply if devices are unlocked to use other networks.
At least it does highlight the demand for the iPhone among China’s massive population. Apple’s talk breakdown with China Mobile was downplayed by CEO Steve Jobs, who claims there was only ever really one meeting. The iPhone is poised to make its Asian debut in 2008 officially.
Source: After Dawn
It seems that everyone wants a piece of the iPhone pie these days, but no partnership is quite as fascinating as the rumored one being forged between search engine giant Google and PC maker Dell.
These are two of the biggest dogs in their respective yards, and by pooling together their resources, they just may have enough musclepower to topple the iPhone behemoth.
Source: HT Lounge
iPhone Users provide 50 times more search requests to Google than any other mobile handset. In fact, according to a report at Wired, Google had to double-check the numbers because they were so good.
Google’s head of mobile operations told the Financial Times, “we thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again.”
This is great news for Google. If more mobile handset companies continue to make web access commonplace, the number of searches to Google from mobile phones could pass regular Internet searches in several years.
Apple’s upcoming iPhone software development kit will do more than enable programmers to create new software for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
It will also turn iTunes into a software store, because Apple will probably use iTunes as the primary distribution vehicle for what’s likely to be a massive community of iPhone software developers. In so doing, it could usher in a new way of buying low-cost software that’s both easier and faster than downloading shareware or purchasing shrink-wrapped boxes.
Source: Wired
Nobody likes cell phones locked to a carrier and under contract, especially Asian and European gadget aficionados. That could explain an abundance of Apple iPhones getting hacked for unlocked use on other networks in foreign countries.
American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu wrote Wednesday in a report that iPhones are appearing in roughly 35-40 different countries. Yet Apple has only released phones for use in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.
“Out of the 4 million iPhones shipped, we estimate that at least 1 million, and perhaps as high as 1.5 million, may be hacked,” Mr. Wu wrote.
The Apple analyst said the number of hacked iPhones may exceed expectations. Still, he doesn’t worry about unlocked iPhones taking a bite out of Apple revenue (Apple gets a percentage of monthly carrier fees). That’s because iPhones only generate 3 percent of Apple’s overall revenue, he wrote.
Source: Red Herring
This Monday Starbucks said that it will change its Wi-Fi network provider from T-Mobile to AT&T. Over 7000 stores all around US will have free internet for 12 million U-Verse DSL subscribers, 100,000 Starbucks employees, business remote access subscribers and T-Mobile HotSpot subscribers.
If you have Starbucks card you will get two hours of free service each day. You can buy the card from the store, with minimal value of $5.Now
if don’t have any cards or subscriptions and just walked in randomly for a cup of coffee and check your emails, you will have to pay $3.95 for two hour access. You also can get monthly unlimited usage plan from AT&T for $19.95
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