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blog.wired.com - 12/10/2008

Why Apple Won't Sell a $99 iPhone, A Netbook or a Tablet PC

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Apple rumors are always hot stuff, but often the readers of these made-up facts get carried away and take them as true. And the origin of this speculation is often an analyst, a grown man or woman who should really know better. The latest of these rumors is the $99 Wal-Mart iPhone, such a ...

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bloomberg.com - 12/8/2008

Apple to Sell IPhones in Wal-Mart Stores This Month (Update1)

— bloomberg.com — Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will become the second mass-market retail chain to start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone, with two store representatives saying the world’s largest retailer will carry two models of the Web-surfing handset this ... (more) Apple to Sell IPhones in Wal-Mart Stores This Month ...

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appleinsider.com - 12/9/2008

Rumor: Apple's iTunes going DRM-free starting Tuesday

— appleinsider.com — Apple is believed to be on the verge of an end-of-year push that would start by finally offering unprotected iTunes Store music from all major labels and would switch a special post-holiday campaign giving away music and videos to Europeans. (more) Rumor: Apple's iTunes going DRM-free starting Tuesday

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appleinsider.com - 12/7/2008

Economy, opportunity seen leading to $599 Apple netbook

— appleinsider.com — Faced with the perfect storm of a bleak market and a boom in ultra-budget portables, Apple is believed by some to be readying its own take on the netbook for the first half of 2009. (more) Economy, opportunity seen leading to $599 Apple netbook

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Wired’s Sorrel: Apple won’t sell a $100 iPhone, a netbook or a tablet
MacDailyNews — ... It'll be sort of like a Windows-based Tablet PC, except not lame," Sorrel writes. "The thing is, Apple already makes a tablet PC, and it is the current iPod Touch." "Myth: Apple is just about to release a super-light, super-cheap netbook," Sorrel writes. "One day, I'm sure, we'll see a tiny MacBook with a proper keyboard and a trackpad you can actually use. But it will be awhile, and it will probably cost more than the competition." There's much more explanation in the full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "walter" for the heads up.] ...

Wired’s Charlie Sorrel: Apple won’t sell a $100 iPhone, a netbook or a tablet
MacDailyNews — ... It'll be sort of like a Windows-based Tablet PC, except not lame," Sorrel writes. "The thing is, Apple already makes a tablet PC, and it is the current iPod Touch." "Myth: Apple is just about to release a super-light, super-cheap netbook," Sorrel writes. "One day, I'm sure, we'll see a tiny MacBook with a proper keyboard and a trackpad you can actually use. But it will be awhile, and it will probably cost more than the competition." There's much more explanation in the full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "walter" for the heads up.] ...

Will Apple (AAPL) sell $99 4GB iPhone via Wal-Mart? Doubtful.
Phones Review — ... that Apple just doesn’t do cheap, so will no doubt sell via Wal-Mart but at the same price point and capacity. Really, can you remember a product from Apple that has received a downgrade in memory, I can’t. So the likelihood of them doing so with the famous iPhone is negligible to say the least. Apple discontinued the original 4GB iPhone for a reason, and to be honest the bottom line is, if Apple can shift so many at the price it is at now, why lower the price? Source – wired ...

‘Why Apple Won’t Sell a $100 iPhone, a Netbook or a Tablet’: Is Wired News writer correct?
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Will a $100  iPhone materialize from Apple for cash-strapped WalMart shopers? Not if you go by Charles Sorrel in Wired News. He’s also down on rumors about Apple tablets and netbooks being on the way. ‘Doesn’t do cheap’ “What every one of these analysts fails to understand is the Apple business model,” Sorrell says in shooting down the $100 iPhone rumor. “The company just doesn’t do cheap.” Oh, I don’t know, Charles. Just look at the ...