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The iPhone and Enterprise Adoption

2009-11-08T00:04:44-05:00

Here’s an interesting article on the prospects of enterprise adoption of the iPhone. Within a year I can see the iPhone surpassing Windows Mobile in the enterprise market as more Android 2.0 devices make it to market further eroding the Windows share and iPhone adoption heats up even more. RIM has a substantial lead and majority presence in the space and may remain unchallenged as the champ for quite some time.

Tablet - OSX or iPhone OS?

2009-11-06T22:40:26-05:00

sleepygeek - 03 November 2009 05:03 AM
[...]Conjecturing - not exactly. 10.6.2 is looking like a major release; so it must be the tablet release in all but name. So the tablet must be a Mac. But it also has to be a superset of iPod Touch OSX. So we are getting the App store for Mac, ARM/Intel universal binaries, and Apple-managed Mac App provenance. But hackintosh / netbook / PPC /Atom will be cut off from the goodies, which seem likely to include a new way to buy magazine/newspaper content. So the tablet’s going to be good enough, and cheap enough, to switch 95% of hackintosh netbook prospects. Meantime Apple has used netbooks to switch large numbers of influential geeks and early mainstream switchers. They will mostly go legal (tablet or Mac) over the next 2 years, and those they influence will mostly go direct to Apple hardware.

Apple is gradually extending the territory of its empire, establishing borders, and shutting down its guerilla incursions into Wintel territory.

Edit: I believe all current Apple Intel CPUs incorporate Intel Trusted Execution. Apple could use this to shut off the rest of hackintoshdom from the iTunes/App store goodies.

Sometimes we lose important catalysts in news thread or the daily thread. I have reread this post a couple of times and have been hoping it might spark further discussion by those who have better understanding of the product pipeline than do I.

Whether or not the tablet will be OSX or iPhone, and whether (or when) the App Store comes to Mac are huge issues that will likely have major investment implications. If the tablet turns out to be a Kindle in color with music and movies, I will be at least somewhat disappointed. If it is full OSX with Mac getting an App Store, I will be one happy cowboy.

What say you, guys and gals?

Line outside Verizon Store at Droid launch

2009-11-07T22:41:39-05:00

Photo and brief article here.

Apple Retail Store Experiences

2009-11-01T20:22:27-05:00

We’re entering the Christmas shopping season so a new Apple Retail Store Experiences topic is a timely one.

I was the the Apple store at the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica yesterday afternoon. The store was active and all of the new 27” iMacs were occupied by store patrons. I didn’t have much time so is spent just a few minutes at one the new 21.5” iMacs on display. It’s an impressive computer that will work well as both a nice piece of home entertainment equipment and as a fully functioning Mac.

AT&T Countering the Droid with a $99 iPhone 3GS?

2009-11-05T16:42:56-05:00

Boy genius are musing that AT&T may be introducing an 8G iPhone 3GS to counter the Droid marketing campaign.

Definitely not confirmed, but rather interesting nonetheless. We’ve heard now from two sources that AT&T, and we guess Apple, are contemplating launching an 8GB iPhone 3GS at the $99 price point before Christmas. One source said this was AT&T’s way of combating the DROID madness.

Article HERE.

Citi-bank

2009-09-18T17:33:35-05:00

Everybody loves Apple but from what I’ve gathered many of us also own banks and in particular Citi-bank. Are there enough of us to keep a separate Citi-bank discussion going?

Citi-bank press release:

New York – Citigroup will issue its third quarter 2009 results via press release at approximately 8:00 AM (EDT) on October 15, 2009. Results will be reviewed via live webcast and teleconference at 11:00 AM (EDT).

The press release, webcast and presentation materials will be available at http://www.citigroup.com/citi/fin. A replay of the webcast will be available at http://www.citigroup.com/citi/fin/pres.htm.

To dial-in to the live teleconference, please call (877) 700-4194 (for U.S. and Canada callers) or (706) 679-8401 (for international callers). Conference code: 28581886. Telephone lines will open at 10:45 AM (EDT).

AAPL News Updates

2009-09-20T16:03:48-05:00

It’s a new week. Let’s get started on a new AAPL news topic.

WSJ - iPhone in China

2009-10-29T23:05:38-05:00

A negative article in this mornings Asia WSJ suggests that the iPhone won’t sell well in China due to the high price. High Price for iPhone in China is the headline.

Apple Inc. is a master at creating buzz around its product launches. But as the popular iPhone approaches its official debut in China—the world’s largest mobile-phone market—consumers here seem anything but excited.

The device goes on sale in China Friday. The buzz-killer is price. China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., which will start selling the device Friday, is offering a version of the 32-gigabyte iPhone 3GS for 6,999 yuan ($1,024) without a service contract, which is the most popular way for people to purchase phones in mainland China. That compares with about the $800 consumers pay for the same product in nearby Hong Kong, which has different wireless carriers. [...]

AAPL Intraday Updates

2009-11-01T19:49:07-05:00

Here comes Monday! Let’s get started…

Verizon Feels The iPhone Heat

2009-10-26T09:21:36-05:00

VZ’s results were pretty much inline with Street estimates but the company realized an increase in the churn rate of post-paid wireless subscribers (due in large part to the iPhone) and is growing its wireless customer base more slowly than AT&T.

When asked about the iPhone, VZ said the ball’s in Apple’s court. Whatever.