“Tim Cook finally gets his chance to stride out from under Steve Jobs’ shadow, and he could not have picked a better time or device to mark his unofficial debut as Apple Inc’s CEO,” Poornima Gupta reports for Reuters.
“The latest generation of the iPhone — still the smartphone industry’s gold standard after four years — is expected to see the light of day this Tuesday, just in time for the holidays,” Gupta reports. “Even in a dismal economy, consumers should again line up in droves for a souped-up device that also marks Cook’s first major product launch since taking over from Jobs in August.”
“The so-called iPhone 5 is widely expected to have a bigger touchscreen and faster processor than the current iPhone 4, which helped the company stay a step ahead of rivals in an increasingly competitive smartphone market,” Gupta reports. “Its challenge will be to “wow” consumers with yet more game-changing innovations and top itself. The aging iPhone 4 is still an unqualified blockbuster: with more than 20 million sold in the third quarter that ended June 25 alone, it is likely to become the world’s top-selling smartphone.”
Gupta reports, “Some investors and analysts expect another version of the iPhone 4 to be launched along with the next-generation model. ‘We also expect the announcement of a lower-priced iPhone that will basically be a lower-cost 3GS,’ Jefferies & Co analyst Peter Misek said, referring to the event.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Let’s see what Steve Ballmer thinks of the iPhone;
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U&w=420&h=315%5D
And this is Bill Gates:
Is Bill looking more and more like Steven Hawking or Gollum?
What a tit. Can’t even give a product praise, you can see how awkward he is.
Embarrassing.
Hahahahhahaa 🙂
Ten bucks says it won’t be just Cook, but the whole team we’ve gotten used to seeing. Tim will be the emcee.
To be fair, this is going to by far not the first Cook’s appearance on the main stage of Apple announcements — he regularly did it in the last ten years.
Hey, Bill doesn’t want to put himself in the doghouse with MS, but also doesn’t want to make idiotic statements like Mr Ballmer……..it’s understandable….