It seems that Apple has had enough of folks buying the iPhone for unlocking and resale. According to a new Apple policy, one customer can purchase a maximum of two iPhones, and cash is no longer accepted to pay for the device.
Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said “Customer response to the iPhone has been off the charts, and limiting iPhone sales to two per customer helps us ensure that there are enough iPhones for people who are shopping for themselves or buying a gift. We’re requiring a credit or debit card for payment to discourage unauthorized resellers.”
According to Apple over 1.4 million units of the iPhone were sold since its launch in late June 2007. Apple’s CFO Tim Cook stated that Apple believes that 250,000 of those iPhones were intended for unlocking and resale.
While iPhone unlocking and resales could have a beneficiary immediate effect on Apple’s revenues in the short term, the company is losing long term revenue it receives from the phone’s exclusive carrier AT&T that splits its customer profits with Apple.
Written by dennis on October 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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Apple’s iPhone was chosen as the coolest gadget of the world by UK’s tecnology magazine Stuff.
On Thursday 25 October 2007 the Stuff Cool List Awards were celebrated and iPhone made it to the top over such competitors as: Apple Nano placed at number 10, Sony Ericsson MBW-150 at place number 9, DIY Kyoto Wattson at place number 8, The Shanling MC-30 MP3/CD amp at number 7, Sony Ericsson W880i handset is #6, Nintendo Wii games console is #5, Sony Vaio UX1 PC at #4, Tonium Pacemaker at #3, and Leica M8 camera at #2.
“It remains the most impressive piece of technology we’ve seen this decade - it really must be seen to be believed,” said the judges from Stuff magazine.
It is worth noting that iPhone had been chosen the coolest gadget of the year by a British magazine before it has been launched on a British market. That echoed in UK’s magazines and newspapers.
Nick Clayton, the Scotsman Magazine technology writer, said the iPhone deserved to be chosen the best as it was revolutionary, while the others were mostly developments of previous technology.
The official UK’s premiere of the iPhone is to take place on 9th of November 2007, while Apple fans seem to have been waiting for it for a very long time…
Written by Krzysztof on October 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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A German internet site MACNOTES.DE has published possible tariff plans for future iPhone users in Germany.
The price of the iPhone will amount to 399 Euros for 8GB version. Although the proper marketing and promotion should start at the end of October or beginning of November, MACNOTES.DE has already find out about T mobile’s three tariff plans.
T-mobile is allegedly planning to offer three plans called medium, large and extra large, having 100, 200 and 1000 minutes respectively. That will also include some free SMS. The plans will offer 40, 150, 300 free messages respectively.
All of the plans include EDGE data transfer and access to T-mobile Hot Spots. Listening to Voicemail messages and Visual Voicemal service is supposed to be for free as well. The plans are supposed to cost respectively 49,95, € 69,95 € and 89,95 €. If the user needs more minutes and messages he will have to pay 0,39 € for every minute and 0,19 € for every SMS above the allowance already included in the particular tariff.
As already mentioned the official presentation of the iPhone in Germany should take place on November the 9th and that is when T-mobile should announce more reliable information on its tariffs.
Written by Krzysztof on October 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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Written by Ryan Block
Filed under: Software, Apple. We could hardly believe it ourselves, but the open source community has parlayed that game-changing v1.1.1 TIFF exploit / file system hack into a full-on ready to rumble instant installer for AppTapp on the iPhone and iPod touch. Check out TUAW for the steps and further details, but we tried it on our v1.1.1 touch and it worked like a damn charm.
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Watch this video interview with MS CEO Steve Ballmer and see if you don’t conclude he’s a coke head.
Ballmer sniffs and snorts throughout and he’s constantly rubbing his nose as if he’s dying to take giant snot snorts.
If you were sitting in a bar with him, there’d be no doubt he just did a couple of fat rails.
Written by Leander Kahney on October 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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