“J.P. Morgan isn’t the only one predicting Apple will work up a $300 version of the iPhone. Gartner analyst Hugues de la Vergne says having a lower-priced follow-up to the iPhone is ‘one of the most critical things to Apple’s success,'” MarketWatch reports.
“‘The steady flow of new products will be what will determine Apple’s success, and they’ve shown they understand this concept,’ says de la Vergne,” MarketWatch reports.
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Aw hell, now my AutoFill wants to put it all in there. >.<
I dig.
Apple sold 150K iPods in the first 3 months. Price was around 500.
Apple sold 1M iPhones in the first week. Price was around 5-600
Eventually the iPods diversified and now some can be had for 80.
Of course cheaper iPhones will be released, but not for a while. Apple needs to sell get this baby up and running first and by the looks of it they are doing a pretty good job.
I listened to that absolute piece of crap opinion. Seriously, do you think Apple would compromise the incredible design of the iPhone to create a feature limited smaller version. The iPhone as it is, is an amazing device. The touch screen features such as keyboard, email etc. would be unworkable on a smaller screen. It isn’t going to happen and it doesn’t need to.
Whilst the smart phone market maybe a smaller percentage of the overall market, I’d say it will grow in proportion due to the iPhone and people wanting to have the most gorgeous must have device.
I bought a piece of shit Windows Mobile 5 phone last year and it cost me $AU1,100.00 which is pretty standard here in Oz. Even with currency conversion, that still makes the iPhone cheaper when it gets here. It crashes at least 3 times a day needing a reset and sometimes gets so f–ed up that I have to restore to factory defaults, and resync all my data and re-install 3rd party apps, just to get the P-O-S to f..ing work properly.
I think generally these analysts are out of their league with giving opinions on Apple products, because for years they have only had mediocrity to report on.
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I don’t understand how these analysts miss the point so completely. The goodness of the iPhone is not that it is a phone or a music player, which many of the current offerings from the other phone makers are. It is the interface and connectivity. When you shrink the device to nano (or shuffle) proportions, you loose the interface and loose the interface, so it’s no longer an iPhone. What would be the point of Apple jumping into the just another phone/music player fray? Makes no sense.I think these ANALyst are primarily guilty of abusing their spreadsheets.
“loose the interface and loose the interface” should have been “loose the interface and loose the contols needed for the connectivity”
should have been “lose the interface and lose the controls”
I don’t need my interface to be any looser!
when it comes to forum postings, good grammar has went
@nutterific
As you say I was too loose with the “o” s and I need to lose a couple of them. Maybe I’m guilty of abuse of the spell checker and need to get a think checker,