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By: elppa

elppa — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:05:59 +0000

Maybe someone is listening. O2 + Apple have just made their tariffs very competitive in the UK.

No price chanages, they’ve just upped the minutes and texts. Plus UK customers still get free WiFi on the cloud.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:55:38 +0000

@elppa
Oops, poor choice of words on my part. :)

@WholesaleMagic
Absolutely. It’s a fantastic business strategy and it’s obvious to all that it’s working well.

Apple are also in such a position of power that they can deliver a phone with a singular vision. There’s zero interference from the carrier and that’s a very good thing. Too many other phones are ruined by carrier customizations. It’s like buying a Dell PC and finding it filled with AOL icons and software everywhere.

By: WholesaleMagic

WholesaleMagic — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:24:30 +0000

@Rich: The reasons you give for the iPhone beating Nokia’s N95 may be correct. However, these reasons are hallmarks of a successful business strategy that has seen millions of iPhones sold, while competitors scrabble for remaining market share.

1. Apple’s loyal fanbase has been built up over years of quality products and decent service.
2. Marketing is the way to sell products. If you have good marketing, you’re halfway towards selling your product. Anyhow, what are a few more demo products to Apple if they sell thousands more units because of them?
3. Levering sales from iPod/Macintosh is yet another successful business strategy. I’m extremely happy with my Mac/iPod, therefore I’d buy an iPhone.
4. One device is simple. I wouldn’t know the difference between a 6610/3350/6136/7650/8810/9300/E70/N70 if they spray painted themselves eight distinct colours and had sex with me in eight different tantric positions while shouting their names extremely loudly.

Although, I’d much rather initiate intimate relations with an iPhone.

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Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:01:09 +0000

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By: shadash

shadash — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:56:57 +0000

What about comparing the Air to the Asus EEE PC? The Air has higher specs, but I lean toward $300-$400 over $1799. E-mail, web, word processing are all handled perfectly on the EEE. If Apple made a 10″ screen I’d be all over it, but 13″ is too big to pay the premium over the Asus or even the regular Macbook (which, incidentally, I’m using right now.)

[The Asus EEE PC is interesting and popular at its low price, but isn't a competitor to the Air any more than a tape recorder is a competitor to the iPod Touch. The EEE PC is a tiny laptop that might be valuable to lots of people, but its gutless and has an extremely small display and keyboard that make using it as a regular system very impractical. Apple may venture into making a smaller, entry level MacBook at some point sharing some of the technology of the Air, but I think the company would prefer to position the iPhone/Touch as its ~$300-400 WiFi mobile platform.

For mainstream users, carrying around an iPhone in your pocket makes a lot more sense than a PC laptop that is too big to be small, and too small to be of much use. - Dan]

By: t.macman

t.macman — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:48:20 +0000

way to go dan! Apple must be the most critizied, and the most worshiped, company in the world. The only ways thee these blogers can fabricate stories like that I’d by skipping all the obviou details. I do how ever agree with pergrenerfors( the first guy to post) that you should provide links to the article your writing about.

By: elppa

elppa — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:00:30 +0000

“The rendering speed on state-of-the-art HSDPA Nokia phones, such as the N95 8GB, blows the iPhone away.”

I imagine the loading speed does beat iPhone on EDGE and quite comfortably. I highly doubt the rendering speed will, considering as you say, they use the same rendering engine.

By: treestman

treestman — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:25:50 +0000

“What’s the point of fast wired networking and camcorder video input on a laptop strapped for RAM and processing power and really only designed to do basic mobile web, email, and office work?”

This is essentially the same question I asked in an article last week:

“What Griffiths doesn’t mention is that, since Vista’s inability to run well on older hardware is one of the reasons it’s not taking off, does anyone really want to run it on a 1 GHZ mobile processor with older graphics?”

and

“…the overkill is spot on. All this I/O on a machine struggling under the weight of Vista on a 1 GHz processor?”