According Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), “there’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share”.
Now we’ll get a chance to go through this again in phones and music players. There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I’d prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.
In the case of music, Apple got out early. They were the first to really recognize that you couldn’t just think about the device and all the pieces separately. Bravo. Credit that to Steve (Jobs) and Apple. They did a nice job.
An earlier article reported that Leopard Build 9A410 had been seeded to developers.
The most obvious visual change in the newest build is a shift away from “Brushed Metal” which Apple uses in many applications such as Safari and Finder.
Screenshots of the new theme show a simpler look.
A new survey performed by Piper Jaffray shows that 84 percent of their 500 teenagers sampled have heard of the Apple iPhone. According to our resident scientists, the sample size is just large enough to make deductions about the entire teenage population; hooray for statistics!
Apple has filed for a continuation patent that details accelerated scrolling via the iPod click wheel, but the description and drawings that make up that filing also point to the inclusion of an iPod scroll wheel in place of a keyboard’s numeric keypad.
“The keyboard apparatus can also include a button associated with the rotational input unit. As shown in FIG. 7A, the button can be provided at a center region of the rotational input unit. However, the button is not required and, if provided, can be placed elsewhere, such as outside the periphery of the rotational input unit.”
A list of bugs accompanying the latest pre-release build of Apple Inc.’s Leopard operating system appears to have swelled somewhat since the Cupertino-based company last seeded the software to developers in early March. Of those issues, the most critical appear to affect the system’s installation process, Apple’s QuickTime digital media software…
Two Michigan lawmakers who support a plan to spend millions of state tax dollars order to buy an iPod for every child in the state may have flown to California thanks to Apple. The accusations raise questions as to whether the two lawmakers support the plan so heavily because it was due to the financial influence of Apple.
According to the DigiTimes, Apple plans to launch new iPods featuring Wi-Fi in the second half of 2007.
Apple plans to launch new iPods featuring Wi-Fi in the second half of 2007. Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) will produce the Wi-Fi modules and Foxconn will perform as the OEM system assembler, according to Taiwan portable music player component makers.
This is still an un-confirmed rumor, but the source seems quite reliable since it was the first one to report a Leopard delay.
The release of Leopard will be delayed until October. The reason for this delay is that Apple shifted developers from Leopard to the iPhone team.
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones.
Apple has released two new TV advertisements in their ‘Get A Mac’ campaign. They are: “Flashback” and “Computer Cart”. Enjoy!
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