[Swordmaker]

So much for the claims that slow iPhone sales triggered the price drop... PING!

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[aimhigh]

Palm and Blackberry producers have to be worried. Once these are sold unlocked, many more will be buying them.

[SamAdams76]

Apple is only now beginning to realize the benefits of economy of scale. We have seen nothing yet. Within a few years, Apple will be selling nearly a billion iPods a year (in their various iterations) and a hundred million iPhones a year. Many people will have several iPods. One for taking outdoors, one for work, one for the car and one master one for storing ones entire digital library - sort of like an iPod server, from which the "satellite" iPods can feed from.

iTunes will also be huge, selling 300-500 MILLION songs a year. But that won't be the half of it. iTunes is poised to become the primary place where people get their media. TV shows, movies, documentaries, audiobooks, music videos, etc., etc. And much of this content will be "for rent" as well as to purchase.

For those holding onto Apple stock, you will be rewarded. Apple will be posting $20 billion a quarter in revenue in a few years time, twice as big as Microsoft is now.

[SunkenCiv]

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, April 30, 2007

"Now that the Zune is out, the iPod will be going the way of the dinos- what's that? You want us to what? Pull the plug on the Zune?!?" -- Steve Ballmer, earlier that day

[N3WBI3]

LOL how long did it take the Zune to sell one million units like 330% longer!

[jalisco555]

Glad to have done my part. Seriously, the Iphone is hands down the best phone I’ve owned and I’ve had many. It’s so much better than the Treo 700w it replaced that the two hardly bear comparison. I look forward to applying my $100 credit toward the purchase of a new 17” Macbook Pro as soon as the line is refreshed.