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Quote: Originally Posted by Onhka Never tried a pre-paid credit card. The local iPad App Store will become available as soon as the product is made available in the respective country. I believe the local iPad stores are open for business a…
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Reminds me of the original iPod mini. :-( I hope Apple was physically forced to do this because they've accepted and confirmed orders for 3G models that they could not fulfill any other way. Good for Apple (and the eBay sellers), sad for us European…
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If Verizon balks at Apple's demands, Apple should give the iPhone to Sprint and T-Mobile this fall. Then Verizon's house would be on fire. They would probably lose more customers than they are adding for several quarters. By June 2011 they would be …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin I'd like to see how much money Doodle Jump has made. That useless app has been at the top of the charts for ages. That must have sold millions of copies. They've sold close to 2 million copies, according to G…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Brometheus Over a million downloads of a free app is not necessarily all that impressive. You should expect a free app to be downloaded a lot. Over a million copies of an app that costs almost $100 in a week; now tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jblenio I don't want a new map application! I like google's mapping software. I don't want to be forced into changing! The iPhone's Maps applications is made by Apple. Google merely delivers the content. There's no …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ifail Android is taking the Windows approach, and at the rate the OS is gaining marketshare id say its doing a damn good job. Which sales reports are you looking at? Android had just 3.5 % of the smartphone market l…
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27 million iPhones this year? That would be 18 million in the second half, or something like 7 million this quarter and 11 million next quarter. I find that quite optimistic.
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Quote: Originally Posted by fulldecent $2.4b revenue / 45m devices (1) = $53 / per device. I spent $15 on apps, so maybe this is reasonable. But $53 is a lot of money. (1) http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune....-ipod-touches/ And kee…
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I say let's wrap it up for now since everything has been said, and we're partly going off topic, partly accusing each other of who has or has not said what where in this sprawling conversation, something that depresses and scares me, frankly. The vi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross That's what I'm saying. It's maturing. but they haven't killed the PSP by any means. It's possible that nintendo AND Apple together may kill it. Cycle is maturing, not the market. There have been many cycle…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross The only area in which Apple was down for the last quarter was in iPods. Everything else was up. They had the highest sales of any non holiday quarter in their history, and the highest profits. They sold the m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Trajectory I'm surprised Nintendo is only now figuring this out. People want multi-use devices. Who wants to carry around a cellphone, iPod and Gameboy when you can get all those features in a single device? As …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross That's exactly right. It's also why we can't directly compare the dollars spent on other platform games against Apple's as some here want to do.. Sure you can, you just have to factor the distribution margi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross It's interesting. His next to last statement is very revealing. "Also, I do not imagine that iPhone will dominate the Nintendo DS market at once." He is probably referring to his statement right befor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross That's because Nintendo gets much of it's profits from software licensing. Actually from their own games. Software licensing is probably #3 after hardware profits. Quote: Originally Posted by melgross …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross You are so very wrong. Apple is catching up. In two years they have sold half as many units of iP/T as Nintendo sold DS's in five years. That tells you nothing? Um, Nintendo have also sold half as many unit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Nintendo is very profitable. They've done an amazing job this generation with the cheap Wii, and the DS over the past five years. Agree. Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Nintendo had a major drop …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SGSStateStudent Yeah OK. If I sounded harsh in my first post then I'm sorry. Friends? Haha, ok, sorry for the f-word. :-) Nothing is meant personal here, just arguing some random subjects. ;-)
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Quote: Originally Posted by SGSStateStudent I'm not a fanboy. They are in completely different departments, Nintendo is strictly for gaming while Apple is SUCCESSFULLY making the iPhone a viable gaming platform. It took a very short while for App…