Archive for January, 2008
How many iPhones did Europeans buy?
End-of-year sales figures for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone in Europe are trickling in, but not in any form that can be definitively pieced together.
That latest news comes from Germany, where the head of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile division said in an online interview Saturday that it had signed on 70,000 customers in the 11 weeks since the […]
How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
The demo was not going well.
Again.
It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple’s top engineers with creating the iPhone. Yet here, in Apple’s boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn’t just buggy, it flat-out didn’t […]
Why Microsoft won’t make an iPhone
Has Bill Gates learned the lesson of Zune?
Having gone up against the iPod with Microsoft’s (MSFT) MP3 player and failed to make much of a dent in Apple’s (AAPL) dominant share of the portable digital music market, Gates seems to be conceding the field for all-in-one devices to the iPhone.
Thompson Financial reports today that in […]
