Posts by mark2005

Why would an iPhone lite have a retina display? It wouldn't, instead it would have a 3GS quality screen, updated with some of the iPhone 4 level internals. So its costs would be less than the $188 starting point.

Quote: Originally Posted by poke Maybe it's true that there'll be no iPhone hardware at WWDC. Jim Dalrymple is a credible source, so let's accept that. On the other hand, none of the other recent rumours are credible so it's still...

Quote: Originally Posted by poke That's stupid. The invitation says "at this year’s conference we are going to unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS." If that suggests we're not going to see iOS 5 before June it also suggests...

Quote: Originally Posted by OmicronTurtle Apart from the original iPhone, all iPhone's have been announced at WWDC and released within a few days or a few weeks. I expect iPhone 5 to be announced at WWDC as do most logical thinking...

Quote: Originally Posted by Shogun Suddenly the verizon iPhone debut makes some more sense. Some were wondering why they should buy an iPhone 4 when a new one was just 4 months away. Ah, not 4 months away. Also makes sense with the...

Um, there will be more GSM units than CDMA units because from day 1, the iPad 2 will be sold in GSM countries like UK, France, Germany, and Japan, and not just in the US.

I wonder if Amazon's contract was written in such a way that there is a loophole in which they can do this arbitrarily - i.e. Amazon takes the loss. Like what they did with the $9.99 pricing of ebooks. I've never used the Amazon Video...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Typically, transaction fees for business are in a charge per transaction PLUS a percentage of the transaction price. For example, the credit card company we use is $0.20 per transaction plus 1.8% of...

Simply put, Apple doesn't want a phone competitor (or phone platform competitor) looking at usage data of the iPhone (or iOS devices). If someone said that HTC had to allow Motorola to look at its usage data, or RIM had to allow...

Quote: Originally Posted by Stevie It would be unremarkable, for example, if a product went from 76 to 78 percent of a market. But if a new product goes from, say 8, percent to 10 percent, it shows something much more...