More than 12 hours before Apple (AAPL) began selling the new iPhone in the United States, a team from RapidRepair had already picked up an iPhone 3GS in France and begun to tear it apart.
The Kalamazoo, Mich., electronics repair shop took advantage of the fact that a Parisian Orange Boutique was hosting a midnight (6 p.m. EDT) iPhone release event and flew CEO Aaron Vronko to the City of Lights MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 19, 2009 4:26 AM ET
Here are two postcards from the front lines of the smartphone wars.
The first, at right, shows three college students from Monclair, N.J. -- Matt Dodd, 18, Sam Epstein,18, and Keith Hobin, 19 -- huddled under borrowed umbrellas in front of Apple's (AAPL) flagship New York Fifth Avenue store to buy the latest in multitouch cellular technology.
They arrived at 7 a.m. EDT, 24 hours before Apple is scheduled to begin selling MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 18, 2009 3:14 PM ET
Demand for smartphones (as opposed to ordinary cellphones) has never been higher and continues to accelerate, according to a report issued Thursday by RBC Capital and ChangeWave Reseach.
In a note to client, RBC's Mike Abramsky ticks off four key findings from interviews conducted June 9-15 among 4,100 mostly high-end consumers.
Interest is high. 14.4% planned to buy a smartphone over the next three months, up from 11.2% in March.
Apple and Palm MORE
Will there be long lines outside Apple Stores Friday at 7 a.m. when the iPhone 3GS goes on sale?
Gene Munster thinks there will, although not as long as last year's.
Piper Jaffray's senior research analyst issued a report to clients Thursday in which he estimates that Apple (AAPL) will sell half a million units of the new iPhone this weekend.
That's half as many as Apple sold the weekend of July 11, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 18, 2009 7:31 AM ET
Version 3.0 of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone software was due at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, and as of this writing is now officially late.
How do I know? Not by monitoring Apple's Singapore and Hong Kong websites and calculating the time zone differences. I'll leave that to the time travelers at Engadget.
No, I know it's late because at precisely 1:01 p.m. Walt Mossberg's review landed in my e-mail inbox.
Mossberg, for those who MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 17, 2009 1:35 PM ET
Ever since January when Palm (PALM) unveiled the Pre -- the first smartphone to challenge Apple's (AAPL) iPhone with a multitouch screen of its own -- the tech press has been waiting for Cupertino to respond. COO Tim Cook made a couple of clenched-teeth threats about companies that rip off Apple's intellectual property, but nothing came of it.
Until now.
On Tuesday, 10 days after the Pre went on sale, Apple published MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 17, 2009 5:50 AM ET
Apple (AAPL) isn't scheduled to release the iPhone 3.0 until Wednesday, but like a lot of Apple watchers, I've been living with the Gold Master version for the past week. (It's available on the Web if you know where to look.)
The new firmware is a significant improvement over the old, but not in the ways I had expected. Cut & paste -- the feature I'd lobbied for most heavily -- can be MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 16, 2009 11:25 AM ET
What -- besides a two-year, $2,000-plus commitment to AT&T (T) -- makes a person who carries an iPhone different from one who's got an iPod touch?
From January to May, comScore tapped into AdMob's U.S. advertising network to conduct a survey of owners of both Apple (AAPL) mobile devices and drew some interesting conclusions, which it released Tuesday morning.
First, the comScore/AdMob survey, like last week's Forrester report, identified several ways both groups differ from MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 16, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has worked his magic on the raw market share data released Monday by the NPD Group, and he sees a silver lining in a lot of negative numbers.
The NPD data relevant to Apple's (AAPL) product lines show:
Mac units down 3% year-to-year and their average selling price (ASP) flat.
iPod units down 18% year-to-year and ASP down 7.5%.
From this Munster finds:
A "positive" for Apple shares in the Mac MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 15, 2009 4:14 PM ET
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