“Cell phones sporting bigger screens, music, video and Web-surfing capabilities may try to steal some of the spotlight when Apple Inc.’s iPhone debuts next month,” Franklin Paul reports for Reuters.
MacDailyNews Take: Good luck with that.
Paul continues, “‘One of the great advantages of iPhone for us is that it will heat up the music (phone) market,’ said Denny Strigl, chief operating officer at Verizon Communications Inc.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, for AT&T, not Verizon.
Paul continues, “‘We were one of the first to get into the music business, one-and-a-half years ago, and it has been very difficult to get traction,’ Strigl said, adding that Verizon will launch new multimedia phones to take on the iPhone.”
Paul reports, “At $500 to $600, the iPhone’s price tag has been called spectacularly high, possibly opening the door for handset makers with similar models. Still Apple, whose iPod music device and iTunes service dominate the market, expects to sell 10 million of the phones in 2008.”
MacDailyNews Take: Who’s calling iPhone’s price “spectacularly high?” iPhone’s competitors, that’s who. And Apple’s stated goal is 10 million iPhones by end of 2008 – starting late June 2007 – not 10 million iPhones “in” 2008. Let’s not move the goal posts on Apple via inaccurate reporting.
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