“Remember how Verizon passed on the iPhone? That’s because the LG Voyager might even be better. It also has a large external touchscreen, but when you open the phone laterally, a QWERTY keyboard emerges for text entry. Key features include high-speed wireless broadband, a web browser, music player, and microSD expansion.”
Best of all it is driven by a proven OS, Windows Mobile! No playing on the screen with your fingers, we treat you like an adult.

Apple is on the ropes! They are down! They are out! It’s over! It’s over!

Apple has lots of resellers in the US and around the world, especially where there are no Apple Stores.

That’s nice you and your friends overseas have iphone. Here, have a piece of candy…

The majority of the unlocked iPhones are not being used in the US. I have two in my household alone, unlocked… in Australia.

In my wider circle of (mainly tech savvy) acquaintances, there are a large number of iPhones represented, almost as many as amongst similar groups in the US.

In finding out how to unlock, I’ve been communicating with people all over the world, ranging from Malaysia to Croatia. There has been no announcement of iPhone availability in any of those markets.

If those people had not unlocked, Apple would have not received any more revenue, and if those people had not purchased the unit at all, Apple would have received less revenue and would not be able to boast having sold over 1 million in Q4.

To assume that unlocking is hurting Apple is flat out wrong. Unlocked phones benefit Apple.

Eric: You stated, “Apple says it is on track to sell 10 million iPhones by next year.” I am pretty sure they stated they are on track to sell 10 million iPhones IN 2008. That implies a larger amount than selling 10 million by the end of next year, as it means not counting the million(s) already sold this year… I could be wrong.

MGZ

Of course it sells more ads to make it Apple’s fault, so every news outlet and blog posted it as Apple retaliation, but instead of being spoon-fed your information, a few minutes of Googling would have revealed the truth. Hate Apple all you want, but at least hate them for real reasons.

Personally I think the ‘bricked’ phones were casualties of the methods used by some of the iPhone hackers to unlock the phones.

Are you NUTS. Apple stated that if you unlocked your phone their
upgrades would brick it! [Censored] Apple! Apple is just
[Censored] themselves in the [Censored]. The Iphone will
sell for a while then people will come to their senses and toss
their piece of [Censored] phones like the junk it is!

I cannot fathom how people are upset at Apple about the ‘bricking’ when:
1. It was in the news that modified phones might be re-locked or bricked.
2. It was in big bold letters on the agreement.
3. It requires a firmware modification to modify it.
4. The upgrade didn’t add much, and was not at all necessary.

If I modified a device, I would certainly research if I could run the normal upgrades.

Apple’s retail strategy continues to power an increasing portion of its sales. In the September quarter, 57 percent of Apple’s sales were direct through its stores or Website, compared to 53 percent a year ago.

Huh? 57% through its stores or website? As opposed to what, exactly, Microcenter (or the very few other resellers)? If that’s all this is trying to say, I’m actually quite shocked that so little of their sales is via direct retail.

If you consider the customer base, more than 100 millions iPods sold as of April 2007, it is really miserable : less than 30 tracks per iPod average, and for the whole life of every iPod !

This is 9 month old, but still interesting:
http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2....._itun.html

(That explains why Apple was so aggressive in bricking those iPhones. Apple only gets paid by AT&T for iPhones connected to its network).

This statement gives the impression that Apple purposefully bricked people’s iPhones, there’s actually no evidence to say this is true either way.

Personally I think the ‘bricked’ phones were casualties of the methods used by some of the iPhone hackers to unlock the phones.

When you mess with a device’s firmware - which is what it takes to unlock an iPhone - then there’s every chance that this will cause problems when exposed to a standard update.

Apple do have a vested interest to have iPhone users stay with AT&T, but I don’t think they’re resorting to purposefully bricking phones.

They have a monteary incentive to have its customers use AT&T. It’s profitable. It’s understandable.

Yet at the same time, I’m still pissed at them

They have monteary incentive to have its customers use AT&T. It’s profitable. It’s understandable.

Yet at the same time, I’m still pissed at them