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Low-Income Users Latch On To iPhone
narramissic writes "The iPhone crowd is still dominated by affluent males between the ages of 18 and 35, but in a series of surveys ending in August, ComScore found that iPhone purchases grew fastest among people with annual household incomes between $25,000 and $50,000. The growth rate in this group was 48 percent, compared with just 16 percent among people with incomes above $100,000. And the down economy isn't going to turn this trend around, says ComScore Mobile analyst Jen Wu. 'I don't see there's going to be much of a slowdown, just because wireless devices are so much more of a necessity than they used to be,' Wu said."
In other iPhone news, an anonymous reader points out a NYTimes story about the rise in car-related applications and uses for the iPhone, which points out that programmers are just beginning to "appreciate just what can be done with an iPhone and other advanced cellphones that know where they are and just how quickly they are going someplace else." Another iPhone story mentions that "Opera's engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won't let the company release it because it competes with Apple's own Safari browser."
The high cost forced data plan + voice plan is a trun off me. I want to get S60 based phone running Symbian OS with WIFI and just use WIFI I have ATT DSL so I can use there hotspots for free as well as not being forced to use 1 app store I can get apps from any one with out the app lock in.
Antitrust lawsuit, anybody?
You can't have a successful antitrust suit against someone with a minuscule marketshare.
At least on Nokia's S60 (Symbian) devices you can run what ever you like.
Usually, linksys routers such as yours are incapable of running a standard linux router distribution.
It's like saying, "It's antitrust that I can't run Safari on my VIC-20."
It's a technical limitation, not a political/strategic one... which is the case with Opera on the iPhone.
I'm glad I bought an Android phone. :)
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
$25-50,000 annual income isn't "low income". It's middle income, since real median income is about $25-50,000.
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People angry that Apple rejected Opera on the iPhone should probably read John Gruber at Daring Fireball, who investigated this and found out that it doesn't seem to have happened at all, since Opera hasn't submitted the browser to Apple yet, let alone had it rejected. You can be angry at Apple for their ham-handed handling of the App Store as much as you like, but the "Opera rejected by Apple" story is, so far, from the Precrime files.