Apple building 5 to 6 million new iPhones

As the iPhone continues to take over the cell market, word has leaked
that Apple is building 5+ million for opening day. (probably july 3rd or
10th)

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Adding his voice to the drumbeat of speculation about Apple¹s (AAPL)
future iPhone plans, Kaufman Bros.¹ Shaw Wu weighed in early Wednesday
with a new report from his supply chain and industry sources.

Among his findings:

* Two out of three. Wu had heard that there are three new iPhones in
the works, but based on clues that developers are finding in the beta
iPhone 3.0 software, he now believes ³only two will see the light of
day.²

* iPhone Sr. and iPhone Jr. Wu hears that one of the new iPhones
will have longer battery life and a much more powerful processor capable
of running more complex apps. The other would be a less-powerful
³junior² iPhone.

* Millions of iPhones. Wu¹s sources indicate a ³build plan² for the
new models in the 5 million to 6 million unit range, considerably higher
than his current 4.5 million estimate for the September quarter (fiscal
Q4).

* Timing is critical. Wu is still not sure whether the new iPhones
will ship in June or July. If the latter, the June quarter could be a
tough one for Apple. Wu was expecting Apple to sell 3.2 million iPhones
in the March quarter (fQ2) and 3.7 million in the June quarter (fQ3).
But all bets are off if the new iPhones don¹t arrive until late June or
July, and customers who were thinking about buying the current model
hold out for the new ones.

* AT&T may cave. Wu¹s sources indicate a ³high likelihood² that AT&T
(T) will come out with more flexible ³tiered² data plans to replace the
one-size-fits-all $30 a month unlimited plan that has run into
resistance among newly price-conscious consumers.

http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com...ing-5-6-millio
n-new-iphones-analyst/

David Moyer <davmoy@world.com> wrote in news:49dcf889$0$48220$815e3792
@news.qwest.net:

> As the iPhone continues to take over the cell market, word has leaked
> that Apple is building 5+ million for opening day. (probably july 3rd or
> 10th)
>
>

David! Iphone fanboi! What you doin in the Nokia newsgroup?

5M units? Nokia sold them yesterday! They're building more now!

Your N900 replacement for that non-multitasking PoS is coming. Be patient!
Man, wait until you play with multitasking on FOUR home screens!


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Larry

Larry wrote:
> David Moyer<davmoy@world.com> wrote in news:49dcf889$0$48220$815e3792
> @news.qwest.net:
>
>> As the iPhone continues to take over the cell market, word has leaked
>> that Apple is building 5+ million for opening day. (probably july 3rd or
>> 10th)
>>
>>
>
> David! Iphone fanboi! What you doin in the Nokia newsgroup?
>
> 5M units? Nokia sold them yesterday! They're building more now!
>
> Your N900 replacement for that non-multitasking PoS is coming. Be patient!
> Man, wait until you play with multitasking on FOUR home screens!
>
>
Dude. You can't fight the fanboys, they are legion, and Steve Jobs'
reality distortion field is at its epic best.
Show them something absent in the iPhone (copy/paste, MMS, video
recording in the first release) and they'll go on about how no one needs
it. Then when Steve Jobs changes his mind, these features automatically
get worshiped as though Apple invented them.
When the first iPhone was launched, I distinctly remember Steve Jobs
saying that there won't be any SDK, just web apps for Safari- and then
the fanboys went 'who needs apps! The web is the future!' until the App
store was launched.

And I've seen some laughable comparison of iPhone 3G with other handsets
where the presence of copy/paste was listed as a feature worth
comparing! Hey, it can make calls! Why not list that too?
Install apps from anywhere, download music from anywhere, customize it
with ringtones/wallpapers/themes anyway you want, publish photos/content
to any provider of your choice, all without interference from either
Nokia or your service provider. That's the philosophy behind Nokia (and
Samsung,HTC,Sony Ericson)- take the phone and do what you want with it,
unlike control freak Apple.

And unlike the iPhone, which can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same
time,
the N900 is a scaled down Linux computer that also has phone functions,
and as always, Nokia offers it absolutely without any restrictions, i.e
over the counter unlocked.

It also acts as a USB host- meaning you can connect your portable
drive/music player and copy/play stuff off it.
So you could probably sit with it and stream divx/ogg video from your
home network over wifi while surfing full featured flash websites on the
mozilla browser,while chatting to your friends over gtalk/skype just
because you can- but you'll never impress an Apple fanboy because it was
not invented by Apple.

I sometimes wonder what's gonna happen to Apple if Jobs were to drop
dead suddenly tomorrow. He has not groomed anyone to take over the
company in his stead- and we've already seen how Apple floundered while
he was away from it.

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"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be
counted counts."
-- Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton.

Rex <rexdudeREMOVEANDREVERSEDOMAIN@liam.ur> wrote in news:hcbahd$92m$1
@news.eternal-september.org:

> And I've seen some laughable comparison of iPhone 3G with other handsets
> where the presence of copy/paste was listed as a feature worth
> comparing!

Won't make any difference what its 3G capabilities are if the only 3G ATT
can provide looks like this new coverage map Verizon is advertising about
ATT's 3G footprint....iphone hype or not!

http://phones.verizonwireless.com/3g/imgs/attmap.jpg

Hell, that map where I live is lots smaller than little CRICKET!

--
Larry

In article <hcbahd$92m$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Rex
<rexdudeREMOVEANDREVERSEDOMAIN@liam.ur> wrote:

> When the first iPhone was launched, I distinctly remember Steve Jobs
> saying that there won't be any SDK, just web apps for Safari- and then
> the fanboys went 'who needs apps! The web is the future!' until the App
> store was launched.

wrong. when the iphone was launched, apple said they hadn't decided
about opening up the platform (they probably did internally but that
was the public statement).

when they announced web apps, developers were not overly enthusiastic.

the sdk is a shitload of work and it took a while to get to a point
where it could be released. in short, it wasn't done at launch time.

Larry wrote:

> David! Iphone fanboi! What you doin in the Nokia newsgroup?

Why are you cross posting? Idiot!

At 29 Oct 2009 04:30:32 -0500 nospam wrote:
> In article <hcbahd$92m$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Rex
> <rexdudeREMOVEANDREVERSEDOMAIN@liam.ur> wrote:
>
> > When the first iPhone was launched, I distinctly remember Steve Jobs
> > saying that there won't be any SDK, just web apps for Safari- and
then
> > the fanboys went 'who needs apps! The web is the future!' until the
App
> > store was launched.
>
> wrong. when the iphone was launched, apple said they hadn't decided
> about opening up the platform (they probably did internally but that
> was the public statement).
>
> when they announced web apps, developers were not overly enthusiastic.
>
> the sdk is a shitload of work and it took a while to get to a point
> where it could be released. in short, it wasn't done at launch time.


That's your theory. I think they scrambled to throw it together when
"web apps" went over like the proverbial lead balloon. I'm not the only
one who sees the irony that the same fanboys who beat the "web apps is
all you need" drum now measure the platform's success by the number of
the apps in the app store.

In article <KtkGm.18385$Xq1.9852@newsfe10.iad>, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:

> > the sdk is a shitload of work and it took a while to get to a point
> > where it could be released. in short, it wasn't done at launch time.
>
> That's your theory.

yes it is. only people at apple know what truly happened.

> I think they scrambled to throw it together when
> "web apps" went over like the proverbial lead balloon. I'm not the only
> one who sees the irony that the same fanboys who beat the "web apps is
> all you need" drum now measure the platform's success by the number of
> the apps in the app store.

having worked with the sdk, it's clear that it was not just simply
thrown together. a *lot* of work went into it.

Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote in news:KtkGm.18385$Xq1.9852
@newsfe10.iad:

> That's your theory. I think they scrambled to throw it together when
> "web apps" went over like the proverbial lead balloon. I'm not the only
> one who sees the irony that the same fanboys who beat the "web apps is
> all you need" drum now measure the platform's success by the number of
> the apps in the app store.
>
>
>

Ahhh..."Cloud computing will replace all those nasty user-owned monster
computers".....


......in their dreams....money grubbing bastards.

--
Larry

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:291020091444198546%
nospam@nospam.invalid:

> having worked with the sdk, it's clear that it was not just simply
> thrown together. a *lot* of work went into it.
>
>

Have you downloaded the free Nokia N900 Maemo Linux 5 SDK, yet?

Wonder how it compares....

http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.n...65c-4c7f-a389-
fc227db4c465/Maemo_5_SDK.html

http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...l_Installation

http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/04/ma...w-in-beta-get-
developing/

http://qt.nokia.com/
QT should make cross-platform implementations much easier....

Help yourself...don't be shy. Just don't tell any iphones and close your
curtains....

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Larry

Pegleg <brian.pegleg.jones@gmail.com> wrote in news:hccbls$39c$2
@news.eternal-september.org:

> Larry wrote:
>
>> David! Iphone fanboi! What you doin in the Nokia newsgroup?
>
> Why are you cross posting? Idiot!
>

I saw the post in the Nokia newsgroup, jerk!

--
Larry

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:11:51 +0000, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

>David Moyer <davmoy@world.com> wrote in news:49dcf889$0$48220$815e3792
>@news.qwest.net:
>
>> As the iPhone continues to take over the cell market, word has leaked
>> that Apple is building 5+ million for opening day. (probably july 3rd or
>> 10th)
>>
>>
>
>David! Iphone fanboi! What you doin in the Nokia newsgroup?
>
>5M units? Nokia sold them yesterday! They're building more now!

You mean those Biodegradable CandyBar phones?


>
>Your N900 replacement for that non-multitasking PoS is coming. Be patient!
>Man, wait until you play with multitasking on FOUR home screens!