Posts from — July 2007

Daniel Eran Dilger
When reports surfaced that Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music label, refused to resign its existing deal with Apple’s iTunes Store, there were private schadenfreude celebrations held in many closets.

Anti-Apple pundits briefly rejoiced at the prospects of a cataclysmic collapse of iTunes, something that they’ve been predicting and even, on occasion, pre-announcing as already having occurred in a test of their increasingly faulty powers in advancing self-fulfilling prophecies.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
How does one out-do Steve Ballmer’s insistence that the iPhone is “the most expensive phone in the world,” a claim he televised knowing full well that his own Windows Mobile TyTN costs around $800? Well, if you’re the shameless Brett Arends of TheStreet.com, you publish a headline that claims the iPhone costs $17,670.

Why does The Street want you to think the iPhone is so expensive? Is it hidden costs, secret fees, or some sort of damages only suffered by iPhone users? No, it turns out Arends is just grasping for straws, but his motivation isn’t just reader titillation, despite the Digg links.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
In “The iPhone Threat to Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, Real, BREW, and Symbian,” I presented why I thought Apple had left Flash off the iPhone purposely: it wants the web to be an open platform that it can support inside Safari.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Continuing on reader comments from on the article “International iPhone: Europe, Japan and 3G UMTS” are notes about Asian markets, iTunes sales over the air, and Japan’s CueCat-like barcodes.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
International interest in the iPhone resulted in lots of comments on the article “International iPhone: Europe, Japan and 3G UMTS.”
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Continuing on reader comments from on the article “International iPhone: Europe, Japan and 3G UMTS” are notes about the Japanese and Australian markets, and why Verizon Wireless and Sprint may have more to worry about than they originally feared.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple captured international attention at the launch of the iPhone, despite only being available to consumers in the US. In January, Steve Jobs set the goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. Various analysts warned the the unit’s higher up-front price and requirement to use AT&T service would raise significant barriers.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
CNET’s Michael Tiemann desperately wants your attention before you activate your iPhone. It’s apparently a matter of Internet Safety, if his blog tags are not just random words to bait the attention of Google.

Don’t dismiss Tiemann just because he blogs for the notoriously anti-Apple CNET. He’s also president of the Open Source Initiative and vice president of open source affairs at Red Hat.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple introduced the iPhone exclusively in the US. Here’s a look at what’s involved in getting the iPhone to work in other markets now, and challenges Apple will face in the mobile market internationally.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Interested in getting the iPhone to work in ways Apple never intended? Here’s a look at what’s involved in making the iPhone a mobile service-free iPod, and conversely, using it with other service providers, both here in the US and internationally.

En Español:
Liberando el iPhone, un artículo de RoughlyDrafted
Traducción: Oscar Reixa
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