I didn't research it fully having marginal interest in the facts...I am cursed with a total recall memory...it was somewhere on the Yahoo! Homepage in the tech news or business news
...the iPhone is gonna need interoperability (betwixt air vendors, I sure ain'gonna pay $2/min when traveling outa the USA), 3g (not just gprs), unlock (to do what they have done in Europe for years...you travel & stop in a corner store & buy a sim with minutes you throw away or just call in your credit card # to renew), a high degree of open source (like my BELOVED razrV3 to which I have added quite a few improvements), & most of all, a user replacable battery (jeez, what are they thinking?? For instance...my v3 came with a 750mAh battery which I promptly replaced with a 1900mAh aftermarket battery which works perfectly). Further, the original v3 had volume issues with the ear speaker & with BT. Outside programmers (hackers) provided access means to the "gain table" which, when tweaked, gives good volume for both. Shortly in my first year I scratched the case leading to sadness. Motorola wanted a lot of money to replace the case; don't even talk about Cingular. I went on a website well known to everyone v3 oriented and ordered the OEM parts furnished with clear illustrated instructions and even the needed torx screwdriver & fixed it myself for a fraction of the cost. Enterprising individuals, together with OperaMini to replace the horrible internal WAP browser & many other Java software titles, have made my v3 a pleasure to have and use! A phone is not a prison!! I will not get an iPhone until they settle many if not most of those issues. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Piwowar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 12:36 PM To: rlsimon Subject: RE: Apple Posts Record Quarterly Profit >But, I read somewhere the profit was from iPods & stuff, not iPhone >which, "disappointed" ...their words! Whenever you read something like that you should make a note of the author's name in your "works for Microsoft" list. The iPhone is just out a few weeks so profits should be $zero in last quarter's figures. With the high volume of sales and a price that is double the manufacturing cost Apple has a lot of wiggle room to adjust to market conditions if they need to. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
