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Re: What 3G iPhone Feature Set will Satisfy Apple Investors?

pats — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:41:46 -0000

Zach an investor is not in my definitionva daytrader so the longs should not worry about features as much as price. If the phone is priced competitively in each market, it will sell well. That includes hardware/contract. Features on most phonesother than the iPhone are never used by most, so new capabilities like video chat are not going to drive a new purchase since the majority of people can't visualize how they would use it. The sdk and enterprise features will do the trick.

Re: 2009/01/07/apple-charging-drm-removal/

pats — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:20:53 -0000

Yes, you can burn the songs to a CD and import them back into iTunes, but the quality of the tracks will deteriorate. Can yoou explain how a digital copy deteriorates. You can select any level of compression for you CDs when imported into Itunes including lossless. The digital copy will still be no better then the original, but it will not introduce additional loss from the original.

Re: Why Apple’s ‘Billion Apps Downloaded’ countdown is a lie

pats — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:40:43 -0000

Read the contest rules. The Billion app is based on Apple's servers the countdown is an estimation and is updated hourly. The timer uses a linear rate between updates based on the last update from the server. http://www.apple.com/autopush/us/itunes/include.... The most recent data
22-APR-2009 08:00:00|993434946|203999. The key date/time |number of downloads |download rate per hour.
Based on the current rate we have about 32.18179501 hours left in the contest. My guess is the rate will pick-up significantly when we get within the last couple hours so this time tomorrow start buying Apps to win limit 25

Re: Apple Won't Be There, But The Impact Of The iPhone Will Be Everywhere At Mobile World Congress

pats — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:51:06 -0000

I think you give the carriers too much credit. I use ATT and they still haven't figured out how to send a single bill for my fixed and mobile phone. Hardly sophisticated billing. If you use Apple's Itunes store as an example. It can perform all the functions you describe, but just not currently for Iphone Apps. I can subscribe to podcasts. I can rent movies which expire after 30 days. I can buy tv series on a subscription. I can rented movies amongst authorized devices. I can buy via the web or OTA and via the current connection. The system tracks all my purchases and then combines recent purchases into a CC transaction. The system supports gift cards and promotions. I would consider this pretty sophisticated and with over 75M customers I would say their service stacks up well to most carriers