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Apple, phone Harry Potter for advice
July 25, 2007
Today’s reports find Apple stock taking a drubbing with the much ballyhooed “second coming” in technology arrivals, the $499 iPhone, disappointing the investment crowd. Only 146,000 owners activated the phone, which is realy a touch-screen flash drive handheld computer–not a phone.
I dropped it
Frankly, with the frequency with which we lose cell phones (just check at any security point in the airport, lost cells are as plentiful as confiscated water bottles) who wants $499 riding losely in a holster on their belt?
Silicon siblings
While printers are riled about Adobe’s Kinko’s deal (more on that one later), we see a pattern over there in Silicon Valley–where it’s all about flash and sizzle. Fundamentals matter more. As we see in the newspaper reports, over eight million folks activated the latest Harry Potter, many of them while standing in the check-out line.
Even in China
Perhaps its an effort to stave off criticisms over intellectual property issues, but official news sources in China report
bookstores opened two hours early to sell the 50,000 English language copies of the book. The official Chinese edition comes out in a couple months. But if history is a guide, knock-offs with fake versions will be rife in the marketplace.
Posted by Bill Esler on July 25, 2007 | Comments (1)
