Traffic at Apple.com jumps 111%

I like that!!! 

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Did anyone else see this note?

06:57 EDT AAPL
theflyonthewall.com:  Apple may open iPhone stores in China-Pacific Epoch
According to a rumor from Beijing Business Today, Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to open its own iPhone stores in China. An insider from Apple China said that the iPhones will be released in Asia in 2008

[quote author=“superbaka”]Did anyone else see this note?

06:57 EDT AAPL
theflyonthewall.com:  Apple may open iPhone stores in China-Pacific Epoch
According to a rumor from Beijing Business Today, Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to open its own iPhone stores in China. An insider from Apple China said that the iPhones will be released in Asia in 2008

Christ, no I didn’t see that!

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Hmm, this looks promising… games for the iPhone…

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[quote author=“superbaka”]Did anyone else see this note?

06:57 EDT AAPL
theflyonthewall.com:  Apple may open iPhone stores in China-Pacific Epoch
According to a rumor from Beijing Business Today, Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to open its own iPhone stores in China. An insider from Apple China said that the iPhones will be released in Asia in 2008

Exciting:  Ai Feng (in Chinese sounds like iPhone) ... love craze.  Any possibility that Apple would sell unlocked iPhone before locked iPhone?  iPhone is an affordable luxury product, demand increases with higher prices unlike commodity product where demand decreases as price increases.

[quote author=“superbaka”]
06:57 EDT AAPL
theflyonthewall.com:  Apple may open iPhone stores in China-Pacific Epoch
According to a rumor from Beijing Business Today, Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to open its own iPhone stores in China. An insider from Apple China said that the iPhones will be released in Asia in 2008

Reading between the lines #1: Whether one carrier gets an exclusive or not, Apple wants to control the sales experience in China instead of being forced to trust some Chinese carrier or partner to manage it.

Reading between the lines #2: If no carrier will agree to revenue sharing (as hinted previously), then no carrier will get an exclusive shot at the iPhone on their network alone. In other words, carriers will have to compete with one another to offer the best-priced and most appealing plans and service contracts—something that is destined to make iPhone carrier contracts / usage fees dramatically lower in China. Meanwhile, Apple keeps 100% of hardware sales revenues and controls the entire sales experience.

Absolutely, stunningly brilliant and totally appropriate for China—and possibly elsewhere eventually.

If I was a RIMM executive, I’d have already soiled my shorts at the prospect of Apple-operated iPhone stores. RIMM has absolutely *zero* retail experience and will be utterly incapable of competing with this model.

I’m so excited by this prospect that I very briefly entertained the thought of applying to be a retail associate at an Apple iPhone store in China.

Any chance of this happening in time for the Olympics? And/or with a new 3G model?

Holy sh*t.

EARTH-SHATTERING NEWS IF TRUE.

What are the chances of this blatant Chinese iPhone rip-off being a fly in the ointment for Apple’s China plans?

[quote author=“lumi”] What are the chances of this blatant Chinese iPhone rip-off being a fly in the ointment for Apple’s China plans?

Newly-rich Chinese are label queens. The people willing to pay $500-1000 for an iPhone will turn their nose up in disgust at the idea of buying a cheap knock-off.

Won’t impact a single sale of the iPhone, and if it infringes any patents you can be sure Apple legal will go into Death Star mode.

[quote author=“lumi”]

I’m so excited by this prospect that I very briefly entertained the thought of applying to be a retail associate at an Apple iPhone store in China.

If Apple paid by commission, I think I would join you.

[quote author=“Play Ultimate”][quote author=“lumi”]

I’m so excited by this prospect that I very briefly entertained the thought of applying to be a retail associate at an Apple iPhone store in China.

If Apple paid by commission, I think I would join you.

So how’s your Cantonese? 

Apple maybe selling 30 million iPods this quarter

That amount seems a lot higher than mentioned so far.  I’ve only seen as high as 25 million)  I can only hope the quantity sold falls somewhere between the high and low estimates and help keep Apple afloat in a cooling economy.  It appears that only the AppleTV is the one rotten Apple in a bunch of bright red Apples (iMacs, MacBooks, MacBook Pros, Leopard OSX, etc.)  I’m still hoping the iPhone will sell better overseas before the holidays to complete the sweep.  C’mon Apple. 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071126/bs_nf/56891

I was happy to see that Apple finished in the green today against the huge market selloff and was even more amazed that RIM was in the red.  Wow!  It’s usually in lockstep with Apple. 

I’m impatiently awaiting a check in order to buy some more Apple stock.  I hope it doesn’t move too far up this week or next.