Going Bananas For Apples
Do you want to listen to your celebrated music group?
Or maybe you want to browse the Internet?
If you’re lost and need a little GPS assistance, what do you do?
Based on stellar sales within the first three days since it was released last Friday, Apple’s iPhone appears to be the acknowledge. The company sold one million phones globally in three days, more than doubling what most experts predicted for the company’s weekend sales. The modern iPhone, which was sold only in the US, took 74 days to reach the one million mark. Apple’s latest model of the iPhone is a third generation phone that fuses a phone, iPod, the Internet and remarkable more all in one arrangement. On July 11, Apple launched the release of its newest model which promises to be even faster than the original for half the label and it even has more applications. Check them out:
3G technology – it provides users with fast Internet and email access worldwide. This technology allows you to cyber surf, download email, contemplate videos, get directions – and you can do any of these things while your on a call. 3G’s network enables data and voice applications to work simultaneously so you can multitask without the need for Wi-Fi
Multi-Touch display – with touch display commands at your fingertips you can view photos, zoom in and out of web pages or type using a predictive keyboard
GPS technology – you won’t be lost any longer with your iPhone’s GPS software that’ll help you navigate to your destination through mobile phone mapping technology
Accelerometer – with built in motion sensors you can rotate the phone and the accelerometer senses the changes and adapts immediately; so you can view a web page in its entire width, look at photos the same way whether you rotate the phone from portrait to landscape notion – the phone senses and adapts to positional changes
Intelligent sensors – two small sensors work to pick up signals from the environment and adjusts the screen, working to improve the phone’s performance and battery life
With the iPhone’s great new features and multitasking capabilities people rushed to stores across the globe on Friday and stood on long lines to purchase the phone. Unfortunately, many people were disappointed because they weren’t able to get their phones working. The technology meltdown was due to problems with the iTunes server which prevented the phones from being activated in stores. Last year’s phone model could be activated at home.
However, since the new phone is being subsidized by carriers the belief was to activate all phones in-store in order to obtain customers through contracts. Apple, a newbie to the cell-phone business, clearly made some missteps in preparing for the massive demand the launch would have on the server. The iPhone was made available in 21 countries and quickly sold out creating an international burden on servers. AT&T which carries the iPhone exclusively in the US stated that a global problem with Apple’s iTunes server prevented the phones from being activated.
Should people have waited to buy the phone? For those who haven’t purchased it yet, PC Magazine editor in chief, Lance Ulanoff offers some advice. Ulanoff stated that while the iPhone’s accelerometer and multi-touch capabilities are great features people should sit back and wait for the bugs to be worked out. And even if you bear the unique iPhone hold off on downloading the software to upgrade your phone.
Some of the iPhone’s “misses” mentioned by Ulanoff include:
1. The iPhone has a 2 megapixel camera (and so do many other phones)
2. There’s no flash or video capture
3. Battery life is decent; but being able to do so much with this phone will drag the battery life down quickly
4. Before buying make sure your area has 3G network coverage
ZDNET also list 10 things they’d change about the iPhone. Despite the glitches, misses and critiques, Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Gene Munster recommends buying Apple stock stating, “International really hit it out of the park.” Originally setting iPhone sale predictions at 425,000 in the first three days, Munster says he may increase first quarter estimated sales at over 4 million iPhones. It looks like many people are going bananas for Apple’s iPhone. Steve Jobs clearly knows this as he has set his sights for 10 million phones to be sold by the end of the year.
Sources: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/07/11/iphone.sales.ap/index.html, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=newsarchive&sid=aU6RfThAolcc, http://www.apple.com/iphone/
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Filed under Small Business Cell Phone by on Sep 28th, 2010. 