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Will Apple Sell A $99 iPhone Next Year? Yes (AAPL)
Will Apple Sell A $99 iPhone Next Year? Yes (AAPL)
Apple's (AAPL) Sept. quarter iPhone sales -- 6.9 million -- were very impressive. But if Steve Jobs wants to catch the likes of no. 2 Samsung -- 51.8 million phones last quarter -- he's going to have to start selling iPhones for less than $199. What pricing strategy makes the most sense? An ...
Mark Papermaster Joins Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering
apple.com — CUPERTINO, California November 4, 2008 Apple today announced that Mark Papermaster is joining the Company as senior... vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Papermaster, who comes to Apple from IBM, will lead ... (more) Mark Papermaster Joins Apple as Senior Vice President of ...
Crashing The iPhone
forbes.com — An Italian programmer discovers a bug that can crash Apple's mobile devices and maybe some computers.... (more) Crashing The iPhone
Apple Slashes iPhone Production, Says Chip Analyst (AAPL)
Apple Slashes iPhone Production, Says Chip Analyst (AAPL)
alleyinsider.com — Is demand slowing for Apple's (AAPL) red-hot iPhone 3G? Apple has cut its Q4 iPhone production plans... significantly more than originally estimated, according to Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Craig Berger. Instead of a 10% sequential production ... (more) Apple Slashes iPhone Production, Says Chip Analyst (AAPL)
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32GB iPhone 3G Making Its Debut at MacWorld 2009?
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... Related speculation has has led many to believe that Apple will sell a $99 iPhone next year, while others believe that Apple will introduce more iPhone models broadening the product line. Rumors of a ...

Interesting Observations About iPhone Numbers
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek — ... in his “12 Questions” note from Nov. 25: “Availability will grow from a subscriber base 600 million in 44 countries in late August to 989 million in 73 countries by the end of the year. This represents 50% growth in addressable subscribers ahead of, or during, the holiday quarter.” SAI’s Frommer dismisses the idea of an iPhone nano or some iteration of a reduced-feature but suggests instead something straight out of Apple’s playbook: A price cut to $99 on the standard iPhone 3G sometime mid-year 2009 , and a memory- and color-enhanced premium model. That’s a reasonable ...

Walmart Could Sell 4.5 Million iPhones Next Year: Analyst (AAPL)
MacBytes.com — ... notes that he's not jacking his 2009 iPhone sales guess from 45 million because new distribution deals like Walmart are already baked into his estimates. But he thinks Street numbers don't "accurately reflect the potential impact from Walmart stores on iPhone sales in CY09." How about that $99 rumored iPhone at Walmart ? Unlikely, Munster says. (We agree, but think it'd be a smart idea anyway .) But he does expect Apple to include a lower-priced iPhone next year -- as do we -- perhaps $99, which we think would significantly boost Apple's iPhone sales . ...

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