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netaday.com - the latest on the Internet. — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:28:39 +0000

[...] marketing costs), on sales somewhere between $350million and $420million, significantly more than earlier estimates of Apple having a $300million weekend. Saying the iPhone has been successful at this point would be [...]

By: document.write("Markus Tressl");

document.write("Markus Tressl"); — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:10:23 +0000

power-by-numbers: 500′000…

500′000 — gemäss Analysten die Anzahl verkaufter iPhones in den USA zwischen vergangenem Freitag, 18:00h und Ladenschluss am Sonntag.Je nach verkauftem Modell (4GB oder 8GB, $499 oder $599) macht das……

By: WillisWasabi

WillisWasabi — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:07:29 +0000

As far as ability to sustain sales go, people seem to be missing one very important detail: cell contracts. The people who bought over the weekend either are AT&T customers, not currently in contract or willing to pay to get out of their current contract. If the estimates of 50% of purchases came from other carriers are close to true then we have an idea how many are in the AT&T group. Most people seem to be perpedually under contract, but they eventually do run out. The only thing keeping my wife and I from the purchase is our Verizon contract that runs out in March. There is nothing conceivable they can to to prevent us from bailing. As more and more contracts end month after month, many of those people will go to buy their iPhone. Obviously, they can’t sustain a rate of 500,000 every three days, but it’s quite possible that it will be still be very hot for months to come.

By: Mac Money

Mac Money — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:24:29 +0000

I had a friend play with my iPhone who had previously stated that he was not going to buy a 1st gen iPhone 15 min latter he was off to the Apple store to buy one. I think Apple has a smash success on their hands, now it all about apple continuing to add feature to the phone over the next year via software. It will also be very important for them to release a new handset at least one a year…

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:56:46 +0000

Long term, I don’t think the iPhone will thrive to even a fraction of the level of market dominance the iPod has shown. Apple has once again taken a “closed platform” approach to their device and that will eventually drive down market share. It’s kind of ironic that there is such an allegiance to Apple within the Web 2.0 world when they are philosophically opposite to the collaborative mindset of the 2.0 space.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:26:49 +0000

The cost may be $200-$300 per item, but this doesn’t factor in the research and development cost which was probably tens of millions of dollars.

Also, marketing and advertising was at least $40-50 million spent so far.

By: Nathan Kaiser

Nathan Kaiser — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:04:23 +0000

A key question for Cingular is simply, how many of those phones were sold to new accounts, or people replacing their older Cingular (ATT) phones?

By: Marcus Greenwood

Marcus Greenwood — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:51:13 +0000

“What the hell are you talking about? Marcus”
“Iphone has already been analyzed to cost no more than $300 to make.”

I meant the cost to the consumer (which as it would happen would appear to be $775 – I stand corrected), not the cost to manufacture. Anyway the cost of making a device is not just the sum of the parts required to build it – Apple surely invested millions and millions into the initial research (which has probably been going on for years), setting up the infastructure necessary to support such a venture – which has to be factored in … at least at the beginning. Wouldn’t it be great if we could just forget about upfront costs when declaring our profit

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:13:56 +0000

They’ll never sustain the growth – this is classic early adopter launch rush. 99.5% of people are not going to pay that kind of cash for a phone on contract. Probably helps that the US has beenn starved of good handsets

By: Louis Ewens

Louis Ewens — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:23:06 +0000

Unfortunately at least 50% of iPhones sold seem to have gone to scalpers. If you check eBay and Craigslist the market is flooded with second-hand sales. Everyone and their grandmother wants to sell you an iPhone for “only $1200.” But they’re quickly realizing that they weren’t the only ones with that idea. iPhones are selling for maybe $50 more. But many sales on eBay have gone for UNDER cost. HA!

By allowing the gold diggers to buy two iPhone at a time Apple did a big disservice to those wanting to legitimately buy the product for their own personal use. The promise of buying through the Apple Online store was tainted by a shipping time of 2-4 weeks and a pokey online experience that lost carts and double-added products.

I want my iPhone. But I am rapidly losing patience with the situation. Perhaps I will just wait for the 3G version.

By: ukusno.com

ukusno.com — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:03:43 +0000

$250 – $300 mil za iPhone…

Procenjuje se da je Apple prodao pola miliona iPhone uređaja za vikend….

By: Sprague Dawley

Sprague Dawley — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:02:07 +0000

Analyst estimates are rarely worth the paper they’re written on, but the most significant item in the Piper Jaffray analysis is that over 50% of the sales were to people new to AT&T.

This either suggests that IDC’s earlier estimate of slow growth outside the early adopter set is conservative, or the early adopter population for this product is a lot larger than people thought:

http://www.idc....Id=prUS20741807

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:01:58 +0000

“Surely the cost of the iphone is more like at least $1,000 per unit”

What the hell are you talking about? Marcus

Iphone has already been analyzed to cost no more than $300 to make.

and I Quote, “it will cost about $230 to build the 4GB version that will sell for $499 and about $265 to build the 8GB version that will sell for $599.”

Read the whole thing here,

http://www.busi...mpaign_id=msnbc

and how can a Iphone cost more than a Mac Book? You are clearly crazy…

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:26:55 +0000

@Chris
Either that, or Sony should’ve paid Apple to put their logo on the PS3, because the little apple makes price points disappear for alot of people.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:03:45 +0000

I think this proves that the $599 price point isn’t the primary source of slow sales of the PS3.

By: other

other — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:56:10 +0000

YES MORE IPHONE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE IPHONE. SCREW STARTUPS. ALL HAIL IPHONECRUNCH.com

jesus, have you guys not been paying attention to the comments?

By: Things That ... Make You Go Hmm

Things That ... Make You Go Hmm — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:27:15 +0000

Over 65% of Apple stores still carrying iPhones after weekend launch…

Apple offers an iPhone store locator service (disclaimer: I own Apple stock). Macenstein points out that three of the four Seattle area stores are sold out of the iPhone and one possible reason being that Microsoft employees are buying them up for R…

By: sputnick

sputnick — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:57:46 +0000

@William – So what’s new? I am probably the only person in the universe predicting the iPhone will be a flop… in the medium and long term, I guess, since the short term looks pretty healthy.

By: Silicon Dalley

Silicon Dalley — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:54:35 +0000

Looks like its better to be in the Phone business than in the movie business that’s for sure.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:14:01 +0000

German IT news site Heise reports that according to market research firm Global Equities Research they sold only 200.000 iPhones on the first weekend.

By: William Profet

William Profet — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:47:18 +0000

I can predict that iPhone will become an industry standard and the most popular mobile phone ever ).

By: James O'Brien

James O'Brien — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:21:14 +0000

I’m still waiting on activation after 58 hours while they count there money.