Posts by nealg

The big appeal for this device is that it is not an Apple iPad. Everybody is trying to be first to market with something that is not an iPad to appeal to the anti Apple crowd. Neal

You would think if this was a consumer device that they would have tried to get it out for the holiday shopping season so I am thinking it is more business device, especially since it is wifi only and needs to be tied to a blackberry if...

Elmer Dewitt in Forbes is reporting that the pre order number is up to 200,000. The 50,000 order number is the number of reorders on the first day of pre orders. I would say with this in mind, having more than a thousand show up and wait...

It will be interesting to see what rimm comes up with and how their os works, especially their browser, since I have heard surfing on a blackberry is a bit of a pain. It will also be interesting to see how many and what platforms will...

Social networking is not realty my cup of tea since I don't belong to any of the networks but it would seem to me, with the lack of any real information out there and everything being total speculation, that this could just be two...

Liked the concept of the ad, but for whatever reason, didn't like the implementation. Maybe if MSFT has a more modern representation of riding in to save the day it might be more effective. Also, the little bit of the phone that I saw...

Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd I think it depends on what he means by activations. If it excludes non-carrier devices then the iPhone sales are much bigger than last quarter, as you can add 3M iPhones to that total. It also...

Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd I think 60% of iPads were wifi only. The point is that the 230K activation's is not the number of sales, of all iOS devices on that day. It seems like the sales are a huge number. i am surprised that...

that Apple TV is more of an upgrade than a revolution. But it is a significant upgrade. From the broadcast(and maybe I misheard), it seems like Apple was just listening to what present AppleTV users were wanting from a new device and...

This will be an interesting experiment for Apple with video downloads to see what people will pay for. I am sure that Apple has done its research on this. The 99 cent model would seem like a good one, if true. Most people don't mind...