"TheStreet.com is reporting that AT&T is paying unusually large fees to Apple in exchange for the right to sell the iPhone. The totals? $150 to $200 per phone, plus a $9 per user per month cut of the service fees. The upfront commission, which you can also think of as a discount on the true cost of the phone, is common in the industry and widely predicted; sharing service-fee revenue is something new. For Apple, which already plans to account for its iPhone hardware revenues evenly over the 24 months after a sale, this means that iPhone sales will juice revenues even more than expected. And for AT&T? It's getting a lot of high-tech, early adopter customers who wouldn't have gone to the carrier otherwise, but at the cost of setting a revenue-sharing precedent that will ruffle feathers in the wireless industry. Steve Jobs strikes a hard bargain. "
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
Sources: Apple set to grow iPhone family pre-holidays
"Apple Inc. this fall plans to accelerate its assault on the 1 billion unit worldwide cell phone market with a second incarnation of its iPhone handset that will likely appeal to an even larger audience, AppleInsider has learned.
The move is believed to be part of a broader, all-out blitz on the consumer electronics sector this holiday shopping season, in which a staggering array of gadgets from the Cupertino-based firm is expected to leave would-be rivals confused and unable to react.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Monday, July 16, 2007
Apple to gather iPhone apps windfall - vnunet.com
"Business applications for Apple’s iPhone are beginning to crop up.
NetSuite will from next month offer SuitePhone, an optimised version of its hosted business applications for the iPhone. SuitePhone will provide subscribers with a free add-on that makes NetSuite’s accounting, e-commerce and business management tools available on the mobile Safari browser."
