“Steve Jobs is sorry. Apple’s CEO wants to return to you $100 of what you paid when you bought your iPhone too early — provided, of course, you spend the $100 in one of his stores,” Kevin Kelleher writes for TheStreet.com. “Why do I get the feeling this is exactly what Steve Jobs had planned all along?”
“Forget the news stories that say Apple cut its price because sales were sluggish. On Tuesday, iSuppli, a research firm, said that nearly one in 50 mobile phones sold in the U.S. was an iPhone, and that Apple was on track to sell 4.5 million iPhones this year,” Kelleher reports.
Kelleher reports, “On Thursday, after the price cut news, iSuppli reiterated that view. ‘iPhone outsold all competing smartphone and feature-phone models in the United States in July on an individual basis,’ iSuppli said in a report. ‘Apple was generating a robust hardware margin at its previous pricing, and will still be profitable at the new pricing.'”
Full article here.
It’s a shame there’s a shortage of iPhone stories today.
“….’iPhone outsold all competing smartphone and feature-phone models in the United States in July “
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In July, Yes, but will August’s figures remain?
iPhone went on sale on June 29th, so essentially, most of the iPhones first week sales were in the month of July. I suspect sales slowed after the inital first weeks sales..
I think August’s statistics would be much more interesting and more telling of how well the iPhone is selling compared to the competition.
I don’t doubt that the iPhone is selling well, but I think July’s statistics are skewed as it was only released 2 days before July began.
I think the MDN folks could make an absolute killing by making a web site about iPods. It could be called ipoddailynews. That way people that like ipods can go to that site and the Mac news for computer users can be posted here. What do y’all think? Cool idea, huh.
Just my $0.02
JUST in FOLKS… the Kelleher report
Another skirt yanker wishing to be noticed in the Apple SHINE!
Cane
@Ray
I think MDN should just combine iPodDailyNews with MacDailyNews and call it AppleDailyNews.
Doesn’t ADN have a nice ring to it?
“It’s a shame there’s a shortage of iPhone stories today.”
Just think, in a couple of days, the iPhone stories will be ‘cheaper’…….
“Doesn’t ADN have a nice ring to it?”
Maybe. But if you named it ADN.M4R, it definitely would.
“That way people that like ipods can go to that site and the Mac news for computer users can be posted here.”
Great idea. Then the traffic to MDN can plummet after a week of posting two stories a day.
Hey Ray, what Mac news did I miss? Did Apple release multi-colored iMacs? Did I miss the multi-touch input for the MacBookPro? I guess these iPod/iPhone stories pushed out the news that Mac OSX is now the default OS on 90% of all servers.
MW: “Love” how you want MDN to make up Mac news when it doesn’t exist.
@ simple
very bad seinfeld impersonation
iPhone OS = OS X, iPod OS = OS X, AppleTV OS = OS X, Mac OS = OS X.
If it looks like a Mac, Sosumi’s like a Mac
and made by the peopl that make the Mac
well…Seems to me the moniker “MacDailyNews” is still right on the money.
Can’t believe someone writing for The Street can actually understand a business plan without it biting them in the ass. Apple has a business plan, watch it unfold to the angst of the legions of Apple haters out there. Domination in the phone market is around the corner.
@MikeK
“I think MDN should just combine iPodDailyNews with MacDailyNews and call it AppleDailyNews.”
Here here. Sounds like a reasonable idea.
After all, Apple Inc. dropped the Computer.
Then again, the MDN moniker has a lot of cachet.
Eh, it’s not my website. I’ll read it no matter what, but I never go to ipoddailynews. How has that been working out for you guys? Should it go the way of the iPod Hi-Fi ???
Someone told my wife that Apple was giving back $100 to people who bought the iPhone because of battery problems. Can you believe how distorted the truth gets out there?!