Last weekend, the Apple network experienced massive gridlock across the board, as iPhone 3g owners tried to activate their wireless service while many of the original iPhone users tried to upgrade to the new 2.0 OS. It was poor planning to say the least, as the releases of the new OS and the new iPhone within a week of each other basically invited mass scale problems. Because of the network, Apple customers were taking much longer to purchase iPhones at the stores, and current iPhone users found that their phones completely stopped working when they tried to update the system.
But in spite of all this mess, in their first weekend of sales, Apple was able to get over 1 million people worldwide out the door with brand new iPhone 3Gs. Even though high sales were to be expected, this 1 million phone mark was nearly double what analysts had predicted, and will completely dismantle the economic model that had predicted Apple’s total iPhone sales for the year at just over 4 million. Boy I wish I had invested a week ago! Apple definitely has a winner here. You can get the full run down by watching this video.
Since iPhones are going to be the talk of the town for the next month or so… I thought I’d spread these cool applicaitons that I found online. They’re basically magic tricks for your iPhone! These three are called iBeer, iBug, and iMunchies… Enjoy.
Someone sent this pie graph to me earlier today, and I thought it was pretty interesting. In fact, our whole team is still talking about it. Before I get into anymore details, let me show you the chart first.
Are you surprised that RIM has such a huge smartphone market in the US? I am not. It did surprise me that Apple actually lost market shares between Q4 2007 and Q1 2008 though, but that’s not my point. What did surprise me is the following chart:
Nokia owns 52.9% of the World Smartphone Market? That’s huge! I guess US only covers a small portion of the world mobile industry. In fact, 44.5% of the US market is only equivalent to 11.4% of the world market!
I believe that Bharti Airtel and China Mobile alone already have more than the total number of US mobile subscribers combined, so the numbers do make sense. Just not what I had imagined, since Nokia smartphones aren’t as popular here in the US. I guess world domination is more important!
Apparently there were a bunch of rumors on the iPhone having a white back cover a couple weeks ago. In fact, I ran across this picture a while back:
And then a bunch of pictures came out the last couple days that show the black back cover:
So what is it? After digging into the keynote that Steve Jobs gave the other day, it turns out that the white cover is only offered with the 16GB version. The 8GB one is in black only. I personally really like the white one. Maybe that’s why they are only offering it in 16GB so you have to get the higher model?
Sorry. I know I am a day late in covering the new iPhone. As you’ve probably heard by now, Steve Jobs and Apple officially announced that the iPhone is going 3G starting July 11th. This is what Engadget had to say:
Obviously 3G is at the forefront, but they’re also making sure it’s available all over internationally, works with enterprises, runs 3rd party apps… and does it all for cheaper. Apple claims its 3G speeds trounce the competition, with pageloads 36% faster than the N95 and Treo 750 — and of course it completely trounces the old EDGE data speeds.
The thing that interested me the most is the price. I was pretty shocked that Apple would lower the price at first. The 8GB version is now only $199 and 16GB is $299!
But of course, for such a hot product, you figure they gotta make you pay more somehow. AT&T already said that they are going to raise the data plan to $30 a month, which really isn’t that much.
If you haven’t caught on to the theme of the day yet, well here it is: iPhone. Specificially the new, highly anticipated 3g iPhone that’s supposed to be announced next week.
Apple has already said that they are expecting to sell 10 million units this year. With reports of iPhone shortage everywhere for the last couple months, obviously they already had something big planned in order for Apple to hit the 10 million target.
Forbes just released an article on how they managed to keep this a secret until now. All the clues are there too:
By May 6, it became clear that AT&T was getting ready for something big, with a blogger publishing an all-hands memo to employees at AT&T stores telling them they couldn’t take vacation time between June 15 and July 12. That news hit amid widespread reports of iPhone shortages in Europe and across the U.S.
Want to know how Apple managed to keep this a secret? Check out the article here.
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