- "More upfront payments to Apple in exchange for no subscription payments...
- In-store activation required in the US...
- Multiple carriers in some countries...
- iPod touch is poised for a price cut...
- Apple’s toe dip into running an iPhone NOC... Apple is providing a centralized push application service that can present badges, sounds, and text alerts on any number of phones at the same time. What Apple has actually created here is a poor man’s Blackberry Enterprise Server and Network Operations Center, complete with the associated single point of failure too. It’s too early to know how much developers will embrace this service, but it in essence makes the iPhone a cloud computing client.
- Multi-mode location-based services...
- Jobs served notice that the Apple iPhone is not just a consumer device, but is Apple’s third big developer platform, following the Mac and the iPod. And while it isn’t yet a third of Apple’s revenue, just wait. It will be — and sooner than you think."
Seven Overlooked iPhone 3G Details.
[the entire post by Carl Howe at the Yankee Group is worth reading; summary follows...]
