James Johnson's List: Apple iphone Research

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• The six-year-old operating system is showing surprising strength more than half a year after the full launch of its successor. In April, Dell acknowledged continued XP demand and resumed offering XP as an option on new systems. In July, Microsoft chief

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• Finally, in August, Microsoft announced an XP Service Pack 2c release that does nothing more than add new Windows XP product keys so the company can keep selling the OS to businesses through January 31, 2009.

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• The wait-and-see approach of Mark Sanford, a 40-year-old software developer in San Francisco, seems typical of many users. Sanford's PC--with a 3-GHz CPU, 2GB of memory, and a 256MB video

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• standard American business card. Now, get a pair of scissors and trim the long side of the card by 20%. That’s all the space you need to hold over 1,000 songs, plus audio books, podcasts and photos if you buy Apple

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• 28 songs, plus my 24 photos, a couple of podcast episodes and about 50 contacts copied from my computer’s address book. That’s more than enough material for most people, even if it doesn’t compare with the 15,000 songs or up to 25,000 photos that Apple says its $399 full-size iPod can hold.

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• For those pioneers who’ve bravely subjected their iPhones to any of the various carrier unlocking processes, Apple’s got some news for you. And, it ain’t exactly good news. According to a statement the company released today, “many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed.”

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    I agree -- 2007-09-25
    Apple is locking up the access... consumers want more choices -- 2007-09-25
    
• Despite all the developments in the native third-party space, let’s not let web apps fall by the wayside. Google sure isn’t: the folks in Mountain View have revamped several of their web services to be decidedly friendlier in Safari on the iPhone and iPod touch alike.

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    I hope they will open up their network to other service providers soon. -- 2007-09-26
    
• Feed junkies who haven’t gotten their fix on the iPhone should take a a look at the iPhone version of Google Reader, which is far more lightweight and easier to browse than it’s full counterpart.

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• cebar whenever the keyboard comes up. Tapping it will cycle through the keyboard layouts you’ve enabled. One nice touch I discovered was that if you toggle into the number/punctuation mode, it replaces the $ key with the appropriate currency symbol for your layout: £ for the UK, € for French, German, and Italian.

    

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• But keep an eye on Apple’s language: if “many” of the programs cause irreparable damage, it implies that some may not. It could be a scare tactic to keep more customers away from the unlock process, or at least the commercial processes. We won’t know for sure until the software update drops later this week and we see if unlocked phones start getting bricked left and right (and, of course, if you’ve tried the hardware unlock method, your warranty’s voided anyway). Unless you’re willing to let your phone be a guinea pig, you’ll want to wait and see reports from the field before you apply the update.

    

  Our friends at TUAW have posted instructions on how to relock your pho

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• he company absorbed Cingular Wireless last year--a merger that created the nation's biggest wireless provider--AT&T has been making efforts to integrate the brands while eliminating consumers' confusion. AT&T has now adopted orange--Cingular's signature color--for mos

• iPod 1,570 1,497 5 % 6,686 6,117 9 % Other music related products and services (e) 608 457 33 % 1,895 1,433 32 % iPhone and related products and . . .

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• In March 2007, the  Company began shipping Apple TV and in June 2007 began shipping iPhone.  For Apple TV and iPhone, the Company  indicated it may provide future unspecified features and additional software  products free of charge to customers.  Accordingly,  Apple TV and iPhone handsets sales are accounted for under subscription  accounting in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public  Accountants Statement of Position (“SOP”) No. 97-2,   Software  Revenue Recognition   .  As such,  the Company defers the associated revenue and cost of goods sold at the time of  sale, and recognizes both on a straight-line basis over the currently estimated  24-month economic life of these products.   Costs incurred by the Company for engineering, sales, and marketing are  expensed as incurred.

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• Potentially  dilutive securities representing approximately 12.0 million and 3.0 million  shares of common stock for the quarters ended June 30, 2007 and July 1, 2006,  respectively, and 13.2 million and 3.3 million shares of common stock for the  nine months ended June 30, 2007 and July 1, 2006, respectively,
• Net sales during the third  quarter of 2007 increased 24% or $1.0 billion from the same period in 2006, and  were up 23% or $3.3 billion for the first nine months of 2007 compared to the  same period in 2006 even though the first nine months of 2007 spanned 26 weeks  while the first nine months of 2006 spanned 27 weeks. Several factors  contributed to these increases including the following:

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•   Net sales of   iPods increased $73 million or  5% during the third quarter of 2007 and increased  $569 million or 9% during the first nine  months of 2007 compared to the same periods in 2006.  Unit sales of iPods increased 21% and 35%  during the third quarter and first nine months of 2007, respectively, compared  to the same periods in 2006.  Strong  sales of iPods during the first nine months of 2007 were driven largely by   iPod nano and iPod shuffle that were updated in  September 2006.   During the third quarter and first nine months of 2007,  the net sales per iPod unit sold decreased by 14% and 19%, respectively,  compared to the same periods in 2006 primarily due to a shift in product mix  towards the lower-priced iPod shuffle and price reductions taken in September  2006 on the Company’s iPod product offerings. 

   

     ·                        Net sales of  iPhone and related products and services were $5 million during the third  quarter of 2007. iPhone revenue included in net sales reflects only the portion  recognized in accordance with subscription accounting over iPhone’s 24-month  estimated economic life.  In the third  quarter of 2007, commencing with the June 29 launch, iPhone unit sales were  270,000.

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• Despite all the developments in the native third-party space, let’s not let web apps fall by the wayside. Google sure isn’t: the folks in Mountain View have revamped several of their web services to be decidedly friendlier in Safari on the iPhone and iPod touch alike.

    

  If you’re constantly on the Gmail, you’ll want to check out the slimmed down version of Mobile Gmail. It drops a lot of the superfluous information you’ll see in the normal web interface, and it loads in a snap.

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    agree - cannot wait to try this out -- 2007-09-25
    
• Add that in with Maps, and Google and the iPhone seem poised to be best friends 4ever. I just hope they can avoid the inevitable squabbles over popstar crushes.

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• , Apple has come up with a design that turns heads. Enter the iPod nano. But this was a relatively easy one for the designers, if not

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• We measured it at just 80 cents thick—that's 3 quarters and a nickel, or 0.27 inches for you traditionalists—by 5 dimes long (3.5 inches) by 2 pennies wide (1.6 inches). According to Apple, that's 62 percent smaller than the now-discontinued <!-- start ziffarticle //-->iPod mini<!-- end ziffarticle //--> the nano is replacing.
• the end result is a spectacular product. Sure, it doesn't have an FM tuner or voice recording, but it does have an unsurpassed interface, a color screen, excellent sound quality, and an undeniable cool factor. Plus, it's flash-based, so you don't have to worry about skipping or dead hard drives.

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• Currently leading the field in the “Best Science Blog” category is a website whose work has gone a long way in furthering anti-scientific interests, the global warming denialist blog Climate Audit.

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• Climate Audit is run by Stephen McIntyre, a Canadian and “former mining executive” who has become the darling of climate skeptics by challenging the conclusions of Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann and NASA’s James Hansen.

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• McIntyre’s criticisms of Mann, which appeared in the non-peer reviewed conservative journal Energy & Environment, have themselves been challenged for “overstat[ing]” their case. Even McIntyre himself has admitted that “the significance of things has been misstated by [Rush] Lim

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• But the right blogosphere has made Climate Audit’s shot at the Weblog Award a cause celebre and are using postings and “endorsements” to rally their support to push for a skeptic to be named “Best Science Blog”:

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