“Apple Inc.’s chief operating officer, Tim Cook, told conference-goers Tuesday that the iPhone is on track to release in June,” The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal reports.
“Cupertino-based Apple expects to sell 10 million of the long-awaited mobile-phone devices in 2008, Cook told attendees at the Goldman Sachs 2007 Technology Investment Symposium Conference,” The Journal reports.
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“Apple Inc. Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook on Tuesday reiterated that the company remains on track to release its iPhone mobile-phone product in June,” Rex Crum reports for MarketWatch.
Crum reports, “Cook said it is too early to tell if the iPhone, which also operates as an iPod music and video player, will take sales away from the iPod. ‘The iPod is being sold for a wide variety of uses. We’ll see what happens,’ Cook said, adding that Apple has so far sold 90 million iPods since October 2001.”
Full article here.
You know, in case you missed the iPhone commercial that stated “Coming in June” that debuted and aired multiple times during the Academy Awards and is splashed all over Apple.com, YouTube, etc.
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First post and all of the honors that go with it!
He only said that so the stock market would stop tanking.
Anyone who doubts the iPhone will sell wildly simply doesn’t get it. Feel free to iCal this comment and
revisit it in 6 months or 1 year…whenever an announcement about sales comes from Apple. This thing is going to sell incredibly well.
OK, how many subscribers does Cingular have? Of those how many will spend big bucks for the iPhone? I don’t think Apple will sell 9 million iPhones the first year or the second year. It should be available to all carriers. I will not go to Cingular/ATT for service. I was with ATT and it sucked big time. I just want the iPhone stuff without the phone.
In case you missed it, the iPhone is too expensive to take sales away from the iPod.
Then you realize it’s 500 bucks and 4GB…
You ask about cannibalization when someone releases a CHEAPER product, not a MORE EXPENSIVE.
Is Apple gonna complain if people pass on an Video iPod and get an iPhone? Course not!
Fear not PowerZach, the iPhone features will more than likely find their way to a non-phone form factor. Apple isn’t going to waste all that R&D and not drop it into the iPod line. The iPhone is just the first (and somewhat bothersome) phase. I expect that MacWorld 2008 will see the introduction of a 100GB widescreen iPod with internet access.
As for service, well, it’s a crapshoot where ever you go. I happen to be with Cingular at the moment and I don’t place great demands on my service. But the iPhone’s ability to eliminate the “lumps” in my pocket make it attractive to me – despite the fact that I am not expecting perfect service.
Have patience. Things will get better.
(Unless Monkey Boy decides to start the “rapture”. Then we’re all f***ed).
kinda tired of hearing about the iPhone…gotta be honest.
I think It’ll have an impact on other phone companies in terms of raising the bar and improving cell phone features, but I don’t think it’ll ‘change the world’ like everyone thinks.
I have had one or more of just about every iPod made so far and can tell you this.
You’ll want the larger storage capacity iPhone for sure.
My experience:
Video iPod = whole large music collection (used nearly constantly), optional video and photo’s (not really used a whole lot)
iPod Nano – for music collections not as large as Video iPod but entire collection still portable.
iPod Shuffle – if you jog or other need to take a very small part of music collection, video iPod too fragile.
Speculation of use:
iPhone – favorite music collection only, (like the shuffle). Favorite widgets, a movie, contact info. Favorite photo’s.
The iPhone won’t replace any iPod version in any area. It’s too fragile to jog or sport with, it’s storage is too small. It will require annoyingly frequent synching to the computer. Much like the iPod shuffle.
I will buy one of course anyway.
Once again, anyone that is complaining about AT&T, just keep in mind that Apple will have a huge influence on AT&T improving their customer service. You can bet your bottom dollar on that. They won’t sit idly by and have their iPhone customers complain about poor support from a partner. No way.
Okay M@c, you’ve been iCal’ed dude!!!
iPhone may have unlimited capacity.
I moved my iTunes library to my external hard drive attached to my airport extreme and when I’m at work and click on a song in iTunes, it streams through the internet from my drive at home. Video bogs down a little bit, but music works great. If iPhone can access my drive at home, then I basically have unlimited storage capacity as long as I have wifi or Edge service.
@coolfactor….
I’m hoping you’re right. ATnT has a horrible customer service record – by documentation and by personal experience. The rudest customer service I’ve ever encountered by far work for ATnT.
Let’s hope you’re right and I’m wrong.
are you serious or kidding about accesing your library from home? If you’re serious, how did you set it up, if you’re kidding, then ya got be bro.
Jim – the independent voter
Serious. Make sure your external drive is formatted in Mac OS X extended journaled. Follow the instructions on Apple’s support sight for consolidating your iTunes Music folder to the external drive. Plug it in via usb to the new airport extreme base station and the base station.
Open Airport Utility (the new one that came with the new base stations). Double click on the icon for the airport extreme. At the bottom of the first page is the IP address for the station. Copy that.
Click on the disks icon at the top of the menu bar. Then click on File Sharing and check the box that says share disks over Ethernet WAN port and click update.
From a finder window, click Control k. A box will open saying connect to Server. In the Server Address box, type in afp:// and copy the IP address from your base station. When you’re in your remote location click connect. When it finds the IP address, put in your password.
Now if you go to iTunes and click on a song, it will find the song file on the remote server (at your home) and stream it to your computer in iTunes.
Video didn’t work so well. Don’t know if it’s firewall or what. I just started playing with it today.
Goood luck
Alec….
this is freaking awesome!…. ya learn something new everyday.
Thanks a ton!
jim
alec — that is pretty bad ass. Well done.
I have a laptop at the office, which is often on the move with me so i need a library that is accessible when i am out of a net connection (like an airplane or a coffee shop). However, if you have a desktop and don’t want to/can’t load your entire music library on to it then this is an awesome solution.
Another great reason to have an Airport. My current problem is firewalls though. At my work, I couldn’t access my home drive due to corporate firewalls. Getting an exception is out of the question. Got a solution that uses port 80 or 443?
I thought Tim Cook was impressive in his handling of the seminar questions.
Glad you guys like that. I’m having fun with it. But back to my original point, so many people dog the iPhone because of it’s capacity at 4 or 8 gigabytes. iPhone has wifi and Edge network capabilities. So if you can do something similar with iPhone and have your entire library available to you wherever you have cel phone service, does the onboard capacity really seem such a big stumbling block?
QUESTION: What impact will the 10 Million iPhones running OSX have on MAC/OSX market share? Will these units be factored into the calculations of OSX market share?
alec — battery life?
“QUESTION: What impact will the 10 Million iPhones running OSX have on MAC/OSX market share? Will these units be factored into the calculations of OSX market share?”
If every cash register running Windows variants count, then iPhones certainly will.
@ alec, thanks for the walkthough, I can’t wait to do this!
-c
MW: ‘herself’ (and no one else)
alec — battery life?
Steve Jobs said in his keynote that the iPhone would get 5 hours of talk time, video playb back or 12 hours of audio playback. I charge my phone everday. I don’t think I would need more than 5 hours of use out of it everday.