“Early iPhone owners are overwhelmingly happy with their devices, a survey out Friday says, and Apple and AT&T are luring customers from rivals as a result,” Edward C. Baig reports for USA Today.
“In one of the first such studies, 90% of 200 owners said they were ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ satisfied with their phone. And 85% said they are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ likely to recommend the device to others, says the online survey conducted and paid for by market researcher Interpret of Santa Monica, Calif. The firm surveyed 1,000 cellphone users July 6-10,” Baig reports.
“The findings are ‘pretty much off the charts,’ says Jason Kramer, Interpret’s chief strategy officer,” Baig reports. “The firm’s clients are in the entertainment and mobile industries.”
“The iPhone is extending Apple’s reach, the survey says. Three of 10 buyers were first-time Apple customers. For 40%, iPhone is their first iPod,” Baig reports. “Apple could ‘change the physics in the phone market,’ if it is as successful building loyalty to the iPhone as it has been in the music and computer markets, says Gene Munster, senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray.”
Full article here.
Our use of the term “bloodbath” to describe what havoc iPhone will wreak upon the mobile industry may have been an understatement. Sometimes still we just stop for a few seconds while using the iPhone and just stare at it in utter amazement. It really is a fun, beautiful, and transformative device that will only get better.
“The Iraq invasion is more like the XBox 360.”
Both guarantee a Red Ring of Death?
@ Jooop
You just need to give the 360 more time to work.
As long as it’s not any specific amount of time.
The next Xbox will be the 720 just to make sure their customers are still going in circles.
And it will only play 1 skateboarding game from the 80’s.
Most of the game is spent trying to break in line for a Tony Hawk autograph. And a bonus game of Hangman.
“How about “Apple will bend other wireless providers over and rape them in the ass in front of their wives and kids”?
This is what Mafia$oft does to their competition, not Apple.
Apple simply makes superior products and that is all.
Apple has this culture of creating new ways of using devices and innovation because of one thing.
It’s called ‘survival’.
Apple nearly went down the pan in the 90s and because of this I believe that survival is now bred into the company culture.
Apple HAD to think different and innovate to survive and to save the company.
That is why they are so good at doing what they do – they know that they have to make a product simpler, more intuitive than the competition can ever do because they have alot to lose.
Apple is a unique case in this, no other business has been turned around so successfully and I think SJ and his employees are geniuses of modern times.
As long as Apple keeps this culture they will never do a thing wrong.
MDN: I hate all this talk about “bloodbath” this, and “wreck havoc” there. It’s so agressively egotistical, which is NOT what the Apple platform is about. It’s not in your face, it’s subtle, understated, sophisticated, useful, and plainly just gets the job done.
Personnally I just ignore MS instead of trying to defensively tell others that the Mac is better. People should be allowed to purchase or use whatever they like, and if that’s Windows, then such is life.
I think it should be considered genocide instead of just a bloodbath.
@gmw. You should be able to get an idea that American ideology is the promotion of violence and war, and most certainly steering away from genital/sexual references. It is an indication of what they love and what they avoid.
So a bloodbath is what they want. Fortunately they are building a wall around their country, it will have the benefit of keeping them inside the place, although we will probably use a few of their good products, like the iPhone.
Just remember, the country was born through bloodbath, and for over 40% of their history have been participating in bloodbaths so the odds are good that as their empire falls it will be through bloodbaths, perhaps even the one they are engaging with now as a member of AENUS (Australia, England ‘n United States).
There is nothing much else to see from there for the peace loving inhabitants of the planet.
Road Warrior, the original that does not belong to a bloodbath nation.
MDN magic word, believe it or not: “blood.”
@Andrew
well said, the iPhone success is making some folk a bit crazy
@The Truthbearer,
What IS it with you that you can’t make even the simplest of comments without focusing on the male anal orifice? Was this the subject of your dissertation (yeah, right) or something? Or is it what you had to do to bribe your examination board?
You truly are one committed little puppy either way. (Sure hope you’ve shorted AAPL as that stupid bastard “StockBoy” did last summer at $50. You both deserve to ride the rail down on that one!)
Dear Randian:
There is no need to further demonstrate your transference of your frustration with being a homosexual on others. You will soon be blessed with the plummet associated with a wide recall due to (once again) the poor quality control of Apple products.
@The Truthbearer:
Look, stop making fun of the fact that I am gay. It was tough enough coming out with my family, especially telling them that I had HIV, and now I am anonymously made fun of? Stop it ok! I don’t need any more stress. Being a gay republican is tough enough.
@ Randian & The Truthbearer
Can’t we all just get along? Watch this: