Good StorySteve Jobs's Biggest Bet Yet
Business, unlike rock & roll, is an old man's game. Steve Jobs's performance at the Moscone Center today was his best since his triumphant return from NeXT to Apple in 1997. It was all the more remarkable coming from a man who claimed "I didn't sleep a wink last night." He was clearly riding the adrenalin-wave of announcing the newest revolution from Apple (AAPL). Or from anticipating the extra $1 billion that will flow into Apple should his company actually sell 10 million iPhones in the next year.
Of course, the beauty of Jobs is he is always first in line to drink his own Apple-ade—-not that there's anything wrong with that. (Every business would be better if we did that.) A perfectionist to an obsessive degree, Jobs won't unveil a dev...
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Of course, the beauty of Jobs is he is always first in line to drink his own Apple-ade—-not that there's anything wrong with that. (Every business would be better if we did that.) A perfectionist to an obsessive degree, Jobs won't unveil a dev...
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Interesting observational insights. It's all worded quite well also.
I'm not so sure if the iPhone will be Apple's undoing... but Cingular will definitely be a thorn in it's side until their exclusivity contract wears out.
You see, I'm sure that Cingular paid Apple a pretty penny to have an Exclusive contract. On top of that, 75% (if not more) of Mac users are fanatical about their Mac products and will buy it simply for what it is... a Mac designed PDA, regardless if it has crappy wireless phone and data services. So Apple doesn't really have too much to worry about. The fact that Cingular is a GSM based carrier opens the device up to a larger, worldwide market than if Apple had chosen to go with a (better) CDMA service like Sprint or...
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I'm not so sure if the iPhone will be Apple's undoing... but Cingular will definitely be a thorn in it's side until their exclusivity contract wears out.
You see, I'm sure that Cingular paid Apple a pretty penny to have an Exclusive contract. On top of that, 75% (if not more) of Mac users are fanatical about their Mac products and will buy it simply for what it is... a Mac designed PDA, regardless if it has crappy wireless phone and data services. So Apple doesn't really have too much to worry about. The fact that Cingular is a GSM based carrier opens the device up to a larger, worldwide market than if Apple had chosen to go with a (better) CDMA service like Sprint or...
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