Harrace

As soon as Steve Jobs announced Apple’s plan to launch the iphone, a couple of things happened:

1. Apple’s share price increased more than 8% within 1 day.

2. The other major cellphone makers, including Sony Erission, LG, Nokia and Blackberry suffered a 1% to 2% loss in share price within 1 day.

How can you make money from this iPhone mania?

There have been a lot of discussions in forums and blogs about the Apple iPhone, with both postivie and negative comments.

Postive comments include it looks cool, integrating features of a phone, iPod, and internet capabilities.

Negative comments state that it’s expensive – US$499 for 4GB and US$599 for 8GB, it doesn’t support 3G.

The iPhone may look cool, but why this announcement has raised Apple share price for close to 10% in one day? I think it boils down to the salesmanship of Steve Jobs during his speech. He said passionately that the iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device. I remember him also using terms such as the software in the iPhone is “5 years in advance” of other similar software.

Further, with the unprecedented success of the iPod, which has turned around Apple, there is a strong emotion that iPhone will be another smashing hit, bringing the revenues of Apple to the next levels.

I think this will almost certainly be true. So how can we tap on this iPhone making money phenomenon?

#1: Buying Apple shares – Though the share price increase has already been reflected after the announcement, I expect the share price will go up for the 2nd round, after the launch of the iPhone.

#2: Though the iPhone does not support 3G, which is not popular in the US anyway, it should have good wi-fi capabilities. So more people will be surfing the Internet on the road using iPhone. This will make the Internet marketing pie grow much bigger. It’s time we prepared for Internet marketing campaigns targeted for these Internet users.

#3: Write articles on iPhone, like this one in your site and submit to articles directories. This will draw more traffic to your site, and in turn, you can monetize the traffic via Google AdSense, affiliate programs, as welling as selling your own products or services.

#4: Sell iPhone accessories – After the launch of the iPods, there are a great demand for iPods accessories. Similarly, I expect there will be a great demand for iPhone accessories. As the early bird catches the worm, it’s time to source for the products now.

What about selling iPhone? If you are already selling cell phones or iPods, adding iPhone to your inventory is a good idea. However, if not, the costs of the supply and the frequent change of new models are some of the concerns you should be able to deal with first.

Tom Attea

Apple, hoping once again to exploit America’s susceptibility to glitzy triviality, introduced the iPhone, with Steve Jobs’ doing his usual stint at self-effacing hoopla. Then came the enormous surprise. Not a single American lined up to buy it.

How is such a thing possible?

Pollsters hit their conventional phones.

Their conclusion: most Americans now lead everyday lives that are so breathlessly exciting they no longer have time for such Apple pie in the sky.

As you’ve no doubt detected, we’re not reporting what actually happened. Millions of Apple addicts did take the call to action from Jobs.

But most techies did hang up on Apple, pointing out that, while the iPhone is neatly styled, it consists entirely of existing technology, cobbled together by Apple and assembled in so many Asian countries it takes a built-in a calculator to count them.

It’s also tied to AT&T’s Edge wireless technology, which is relatively unedgy in terms of speed and bound to make Web browsing seem as slow as watching real apples ripen.

By now we suspect that a great many Americans who took the call wish they had told Apple to leave a text message about when to expect iPhoneii.

Adger

Despite its gorgeous display and addictive appeal, Apple’s (Quote) iPhone isn’t an instant home run just yet. For starters, there’s the name problem.

Cisco Systems (Quote) filed suit against Apple in the Northern District of California today, seeking an injunction against Apple using Cisco’s iPhone trademark with its latest product.

Cisco said it obtained the iPhone trademark in 2000 after completing the acquisition of Infogear, which previously owned the mark and sold iPhone products for several years. Cisco’s Lynksys division also recently launched a new series of dual phones that connect traditional calls as well as Internet-based telephony.

The suit came after Apple apparently went ahead and launched the iPhone before negotiations with Cisco over the trademark were finalized.

“Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco’s iPhone name,” said Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel for Cisco. “There is no doubt that Apple’s new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without our permission.

The negotiations continued up until the night before the iPhone’s release, according to a Cisco spokesman, John Noh. “As of this morning, we have not received the approved agreement from them,” he told internetnews.com.

Apple was not immediately available for comment.

In addition to the legal question, analysts noted that it would be a while yet before the phone causes sleepless nights for cell phone giants.

“As beautiful as the iPhone design is, physical design isn’t what handset vendors are lacking,” Current Analysis analyst Avi Greengart told internetnews.com

After the iPhone — which combines iPod functionality with a touch-screen smartphone — is available this summer, “there will be some reevaluation of the usefulness in the market,” Greengart said.

Goldman Sachs enthusiastically said the iPhone’s introduction was “setting the bar higher for competitors to hurdle,” but the Wall Street analyst questioned whether consumers will accept the product.

Analysts said the iPhone won’t hurt RIM’s prosumer Pearl. Research in Motion, (Quote)maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device, saw its stock drop 8 percent following the iPhone’s introduction. However, by mid-morning, RIM stock had rebounded, rising nearly 2 percent.

While the iPhone will be popular with some consumers, for a number of reasons, the handset “will have very little impact on the business community,” according to Greengart.

Convergence of the iPod with a phone will not be important, particularly in companies hesitant to buy a consumer-oriented device, Kitty Weldon, analyst with Current Analysis said.

The touch-screen design will turn off business people accustomed to buttons. Although the iPhone’s design is very efficient, Greengart said few devices in the U.S. have been all touch.

Unlike the BlackBerry, the iPhone doesn’t include secure corporate e-mail or other corporate-level controls, according to the analyst.

And unlike the Treo, the iPhone can’t import applications, and the Apple device lacks 3G support, as well as mobile TV capabilities offered by a number of carriers.

Even with its new design, the iPhone lacks the user base to compete with cell phone giant Nokia.

Palm’s (Quote)reo and Sony Ericsson are Apple’s closest competitors, he said. Palm has held the lead in design innovation, and Ericsson sells touch-screen units in Europe.

“A lot of the innovation we see on the iPhone we’ve seen first on the Treo,” Greengart said. Compared with Ericsson, the iPhone offers smoother on-screen scrolling.

The iPhone’s introduction “makes the incredibly crowded smartphone market even more crowded,” Greengart said.

Apple shares reached 97.22 in afternoon trading, up more than 5 percent from the morning, before the lawsuit by Cisco became official.

source: Apple

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Beacon Worthdods

It is reported that Mobile Phone operator 02 has won the highly fought deal to sell the brand new Apple iPhone in the UK.

“Press reports said that 02 is set to sign an exclusive contract shortly and should have the new phones on sale in time for Christmas. A spokesman for 02, which is owned by Spain’s Telefonica, declined to comment on the reports.”

The iPhone saw a huge launch in the USA this past week with carrier AT&T claiming that they had upwards of 500,000 iphone’s activated in week 1.

There are still a few issues which 02 and Apple will have to work out before the UK launch of the iPhone, namely that the iphone doesnt use 3G and cannot send MMS picture messages (although the later is fixable through a firmware update). Another issue is that O2′s current dataplan is