F.Telecom sees near 100,000 iPhone sold by year-end
Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:37am EST
PARIS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - France Telecom’s Orange (FTE.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) expects to sell nearly 100,000 of Apple Inc.‘s (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) iPhones by the end of 2007, the French phone company’s chief executive told Europe 1 radio in an interview on Tuesday.
“The target is a little under 100,000 sold by the end of the year,” Didier Lombard said.
The iPhone is due to go on sale in France on Wednesday evening.
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Is it me or does that leave only modest room for a blow out number?
Re: Apple maybe selling 30 million iPods this quarter
[quote author=“Constable Odo”]That amount seems a lot higher than mentioned so far. I’ve only seen as high as 25 million)
You are referring to this?
“I believe Apple will have a record-breaking holiday season and we predict they will sell at least 30 million iPods during this quarter,” Tim Bajarin, principal analyst with Creative Strategies, said in an e-mail. “We also expect them to have strong sales of iMacs and laptops as more and more consumers discover the ease of use of the Macs, especially for managing digital lifestyles.”
Bajarin is a few months late (but still way ahead of the rest of the pack). I called for 30M iPods this Christmas several months ago, and also noted the likelihood of a huge rise in iPod ASPs too. Others have noted worthwhile and important trends elsewhere in the company’s activities.
AFB’s analysis of AAPL remains streets ahead of everyone else, and that’s what gives us strength.
So, Abu Dhabi comes to the rescue of Citi and buys a chunk of the bank, injecting lots of needed liquidity into it too.
As I’ve been saying ever since the Sub-Slime “crisis” unfurled, there is plenty of money around, and if these big US institutions fall on hard times and see their stock price collapse, Asian and Arab money will swoop on them fast while they’re still selling at distressed prices.
There is no global credit or liquidity crisis on anywhere near the breadth and scale analysts would have you believe. However, there is a meltdown in crooked and greedy US financial institutions who are now paying for their sins, the shockwaves from which are also impacting other highly-leveraged, money market dependent high risk lenders. Outside of that rancid little world everything’s pretty cool.
Barclays just announced they’re making $7B this year, in what is meant to be the world’s worst financial disaster since 1990. Poor Barclays - must be tough making record-breaking profits yet again. Funny how they managed to do that while the US financial meltdown continues. Could it be because - gasp - there is no real crisis?
[quote author=“Tommo_UK”]Barclays just announced they’re making $7B this year, in what is meant to be the world’s worst financial disaster since 1990. Poor Barclays - must be tough making record-breaking profits yet again. Funny how they managed to do that while the US financial meltdown continues. Could it be because - gasp - there is no real crisis?
In this CNET article , they talk about how Windows XP with the beta SP3 installed was more than twice as fast as Vista, with or without the SP1.
Vista, both with and without SP1, performed over two times slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the beta SP3-enhanced XP’s 35 seconds.
XP has proved to be more popular than its younger sibling, with the first six months of U.S. retail sales of box copies of Vista 59.7 percent below those of XP’s in the equivalent period after its release.
Now, this will really help with the uptake of Vista [/sarcasm]
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Barclays just announced they’re making $7B this year, in what is meant to be the world’s worst financial disaster since 1990. Poor Barclays - must be tough making record-breaking profits yet again. Funny how they managed to do that while the US financial meltdown continues. Could it be because - gasp - there is no real crisis?
[quote author=“capablanca”][quote author=“Tommo_UK”]
Barclays just announced they’re making $7B this year, in what is meant to be the world’s worst financial disaster since 1990. Poor Barclays - must be tough making record-breaking profits yet again. Funny how they managed to do that while the US financial meltdown continues. Could it be because - gasp - there is no real crisis?
In this CNET article, they talk about how Windows XP with the beta SP3 installed was more than twice as fast as Vista, with or without the SP1.
Vista, both with and without SP1, performed over two times slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the beta SP3-enhanced XP’s 35 seconds.
XP has proved to be more popular than its younger sibling, with the first six months of U.S. retail sales of box copies of Vista 59.7 percent below those of XP’s in the equivalent period after its release.
Now, this will really help with the uptake of Vista [/sarcasm]
France’s Orange comments on iPhone sales goal, unlocking costs
By Slash Lane
AppleInsider
France Telecom mobile arm Orange said it expects to sell nearly 100,000 of Apple Inc.‘s iPhones by the end of year and has also vowed to move the unlocked version of the touch-screen handset at costs well below its German counterpart, T-Mobile.
Didier Lombard, chief executive of Orange, made the comments Tuesday during an interview with Europe 1 radio. He said his firm’s sales target “is a little under 100,000” units sold between Wednesday evening—when the Apple handset will make its debut in France—and December 31st.
With just over 30 days to reach the self-imposed milestone, Orange will need to move a bit more than 3,000 iPhones per day through a combination of sales from its online and direct retail stores.
During the interview Tuesday, Lombard also said Orange would offer an unlocked iPhone in France at a price “significantly lower” than the 999 euros ($1,485) proposed by Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile in Germany, but failed to elaborate further.
French law is clear in that it requires cellphone operators to make available phones that are unlocked, and thus Orange and Apple have stated that they will comply with the mandate by offering a version of the handset to French consumers that will not be tied to Orange’s network.
Less clear, however, is German law regarding the same matter. Therefore, Apple and T-Mobile launched the iPhone in the region earlier this month without plans for an unlocked version. Local T-Mobile rival Vodafone immediately challenged the terms of the German iPhone deal, winning a temporary injunction last week that has since forced sales of unlocked iPhones. However, Apple and T-Mobile set a steep price of 999 euros on that option ahead of an appeal, more than twice the cost of the standard version.
Full service plan details for Orange’s 399 euro iPhone offerings will be published on Wednesday morning, though Lombard on Tuesday offered some early hints at those rates. He said that a 24-month contract would start at 49 euros a month and include two hours of communications and 50 SMS text messages.
Customers who opt for the minimum 12-month contract, however, will pay about 4.50 euros more per month for the same service.
I love it when the media basically says. Everyone wants an iPhone but they are just too expensive.
This same story has been running day after day since last Thursday as it gets regurgitated time and time again. Its total bullshit, but as you say, it shows just how much everyone wants an iPhone, and frankly, if 2% genuinely do want to buy an iPhone for Christmas, the UK iPhone sales will be about 6x better than expected
Verizon Wireless to open up network
To let customers use phones, software not sold by carrier
By Jeffry Bartash, MarketWatch
Last Update: 9:43 AM ET Nov 27, 2007
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)—Verizon Wireless, the nation’s No. 2 wireless-phone carrier, said Tuesday it will allow customers to use phones and software not sold by company starting at the end of 2008.
