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How Big Will the iPhone Become?
palewook writes "Combine the best elements of an iPod with a BlackBerry's addictive usefulness, and you may just get Apple's Next Big Thing. Around 2009, when the lower cost version of iPhone appears, Business Week believes the yearly market for iPhones could be over 10 billion dollars a year. Its an interesting prediction; if those numbers come to pass, iPhone could become a bigger source of revenue than the traditional iPod. 'The answer may not come until 2009. By then, Apple should have begun creating lower-cost iPhone variants to reach consumers scared off by the introductory $499 price. It also will probably have moved into overseas markets and cut deals with more carriers to utilize higher-speed wireless networks. So while most analysts look for Apple to sell around 3 million units this year and 10 to 12 million in 2008, many figure that 20 million will move in 2009.'"
Dimensions 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
I doubt it will get much bigger. Maybe a little to fit a 3G radio in a future revision.
Next question.
With many of the recent comments on the iPhone suggesting the real acceptance test will be whether your Mum can use it, when I saw the article's title I thought - ah! now they're going to produce a 'large button' version for older users.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
11.6mm thick, 2.4-inches wide, and 4.5-inches tall.
My previous comment may have been in error.
I now believe that the iPhone will sell 456 million units and will indeed Change the Face of Communications as We Know It.
Mmmmm... Kool-Aid....
Three Squirrels
If my Crystal Ball is any indication, we're in for a surprise.
By 2009, Steve Ballmer will be ordering chairs by the truckload.
Most of the stuff on
Now that slashdotters never RTFA, we're ready for the next step: only read the title. You, sir, not only deserve a +5 Funny, you truly deserve a +5 Insightful for this discovery.
ID: the nose did not occur naturally, how would we wear glasses otherwise? (apologies to Voltaire)
I don't think the iPhone can compete with the Blackberry since the iPhone doesn't have a keyboard.
In 2010 Slashdot will be full of people lamenting that it has become impossible to buy a simple ipod without all the useless phone functions thrown in.
Nuffsaid
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Don't know about his cat, but Schroedinger is definitely dead.
I predict that nobody will do this.
In fact, I predict that by June 26--three days before the phone launches--iPhone-related predictions will be a $30 million dollar business, capturing a 5% market share in the fast-growing and lucrative Pulling Predictions Out Of Your Ass Industry. By June 27, market penetration will grow to 38.6%, and by 11:59PM on June 28, it will be at 110%: not only will every man, woman, and child on the planet will have a prediction about initial iPhone salesfigures. but so will most dogs and many goldfish.
More reliably, I predict that if anybody is right in their predictions, they will crow about it every time they make a future prediction. If they are wrong, they will gloss over the fact and go back to pulling more predictions out of their ass.
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that mwst be qwite the keyboard configwration ;)
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