All, fyi. Here is an interesting take on the impact of the Iphone OS 3.0 feature set on the market: http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/iphone/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3I0MJSGXIC4E0QSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=215901446&cid=tab_art_wire Here, also, fyi is a good summary of the company that Apple (I did not notice it when they dropped the word "computer" from the company name) is becoming: > Two years later, that name change is showing itself to be more > than symbolic. Mac sales were down > <http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/03/16/mac-ipod-sales-each-down-16-in-february-npd/> > year-over-year in February, to according to market researchers the > NPD Group. Analysts at Piper Jaffray predicted Apple would sell > 2.2 million Macs in the quarter ending this month, along with 10 > million iPods. In the two years since the iPhone went on sale, the > company sold 30 million iPhones and iPod Touches, including 13.7 > million iPhones the past year. > > Put the numbers together and that means that the iPhone and iPod > Touch are becoming Apple's core product line, replacing the > 25-year-old Mac as the company's main computing platform, > according to Technology Business Research analyst Ezra Gottheil, > when I interviewed him on the day of the iPhone announcement. > Reading this article led me to a presentation, available at the www page whose url is http://www.informationweek.com/whitepaper/download/showPDF.jhtml?id=61700330&site_id=300001&cid=well1_wp_pertech that was made at Interop 2008 on the Iphone in the business market that had the following interesting comments: iPhone Predictions (from well er........experts) • "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance, It's a $500 subsidized item“ Steve Balmer, CEO Microsoft - April 30, 2007 • “The iPhone will not substantially alter the fundamental structure and challenges of the mobile industry'' Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. - January 2007 • “It won't come from the iPhone. Apple will sell a few to its fans, but the iPhone won't make a long-term mark on the industry” Matthew Lynn, Bloomberg - January 15, 2007 • “The only question remaining is if, when the iPod phone fails, will it take the iPod with it” Bill Ray, The Register - December 23, 2006 and from actual users/customers (we wll call these the real experts): iPhone Enterprise Users • "The iPhone is a watershed event in mobile computing for corporations “ Todd Pierce, VP Corporate Information Technology - Genentech • “The iPhone has worked effortlessly at Stanford and the user acceptance just astounded us. We have been inundated with orders'' Bill Clebsch, CIO, Stanford University • “ While Apple still has a relatively small share of the corporate smart phone market (5%), the company’s iPhone continues to grab sky-high satisfaction ratings. Nearly three-in-five (59%) of Apple’s business customers say their company is Very Satisfied with the iPhone.” Jim Woods and Paul Carton, ChangeWave Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
