Friday, June 1, 2007

Countdown to Apple iPhone Launch - Day 1 - (NASDAQ: AAPL)


Apple iPhone is going to be launched towards late June, 2007. I am going to begin the Countdown to Apple iPhone Launch starting today.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is one of the top 20 innovators of The Innovation Index, and was voted recently number 1, the top innovator, by BusinessWeek and Boston Consulting Group.

What will the Countdown to Apple iPhone Launch contain?

1. Latest news about iPhone

2. Latest blogs about iPhone

3. Latest gossips and rumors about iPhone

4. Anything else that is interesting about iPhone

Today's latest news about iPhone as reported in MarketWatch:

"But to hear Steve Jobs tell it, the device's strongest selling point may be neither.

As he touted the product to a gathering of tech industry executives this week at D - All things Digital, Apple's chief executive sounded most excited about the iPhone's Internet pedigree -- especially its ability to download and play videos.The iPhone comes equipped with "real versions" of the company's operating system and the Safari Web browser, Jobs said, which will allow Apple to deliver to consumers an experience that others have mostly failed to. "It's the Internet in your pocket," he said.

Even though cell-phone providers have spent billions to build out sophisticated networks to let handsets access the Web, "you can't do a lot with them," according to Jobs. "You get the 'baby Internet,'" he said. "People want to get the 'real Internet' on their phone," Jobs said.

During his presentation at the "D" - All Thing Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif., Jobs managed to turn on its head the most common argument against the iPhone -- that its lack of a keyboard will be a huge negative for consumers used to texting on smart phones like the Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry and the Palm Inc. Treo.

Jobs acknowledged that the iPhone's touch screen will take some getting used to. "It takes about a week; you have to learn how to trust it," he said.

But the feature will provide the device with "incredible versatility," because it allows the device to offer users different interfaces for its different applications. To be sure, it's not that Jobs downplayed the product's music player capabilities. The iPhone "has the best iPod we've ever made," he said.

Still, he acknowledged that Cingular Wireless, which will be the only carrier to sell the product when it begins shipping next month, took a chance by agreeing to carry the product before Apple even showed it to them. "They took a gamble on us," because Apple has never made its own handset, "just as we took a gamble on them," Jobs said.

So why would Cingular, now a unit of AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), do it?

Because "music hasn't been good on the phone," he said, and the company felt that partnering with Apple was their best chance of improving that experience. If consumers agree, Apple's sales and stock price may continue to rise, and Jobs may once again look like a genius."

References:

Apple is Number 1, Numero Uno, Top Innovative Company for the 3rd year in a row

The Innovation Index races to 21%, crushes major U.S. indices - Weekly Report 05-25-07

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