It's Official The Iphone Is A Dud!!!

[AnteL0pe]

I'm not even sure that makes sense. The iPhone was Apple's attempt to create what they though every phone should be, why would they now take out half of that functionality? Could it happen? Of course, but i'm still not sold on it.

[braj]

Originally Posted by AnteL0pe

I'm not even sure that makes sense. The iPhone was Apple's attempt to create what they though every phone should be, why would they now take out half of that functionality? Could it happen? Of course, but i'm still not sold on it.

Was it 'what every phone should be' or 'what every $600 phone should be '? What is their take on what every $200 phone should be?

[taylorh]

I think it's intended to be bait to get people on an iphone for a low cost, then want to upgrade in the future. I also think there's a market of people who want a music/phone but not pay for a data plan (and not use data.) Though this goes directly against what AT&T is trying to do which is upsell data plans.
I dunno, it's just what I read. I don't know if the iPhone is what a phone should be as much as Apple making a phone people will want to pay for. And there must be a whole untappd market of people that won't pay $600 for any phone. So Apple has to create a "low cost" model.
I'm sure we're all wrong anyway, no one knows what Apple is up to except Apple

[rambo47]

I'm quite the Apple Fanboi myself, but no way am I getting a first generation iPhone. Clearly I'm in the minority though. Take a look at Apple after hours:



And it's gone a couple of points higher since this quote was current.

[furio]

Actually Apple sold 270,000 iPhones in the first 30 hours (weekend). That ain't bad at all. Considering the estimates they missed were only guestimates by analysts with their own agendas. Jobs expects to sell 1 million iPhones by the end of the quarter, which I think they will hit.

[braj]

270,000 is a lot of anything to sell in 30 hours.

[AnteL0pe]

Originally Posted by taylorh

So Apple has to create a "low cost" model.

Apple has rarely done that in the past.

Originally Posted by braj

270,000 is a lot of anything to sell in 30 hours.

The only problem being that ATT reported that only 147,000 were activated that first weekend and Apple blames the activation delay for the rest of them which I don't buy. I think someone's numbers are off.

[ktm97]

In another thread a poster reported palm sold roughly 75k treos per quarter

[surur]

Originally Posted by ktm97

In another thread a poster reported palm sold roughly 75k treos per quarter

Palm sold 738 000 Treo's to consumers last quarter, about half WM5 and about 75% in the US.

Surur

[TazUk]

Originally Posted by furio

Jobs expects to sell 1 million iPhones by the end of the quarter, which I think they will hit.

What will be interesting is seeing how many second hand iPhones are being sold at that point too