Today is the day of TRUTH… Is the iPhone worth $499? Was it worth waiting out in the rain and heat for 4 plus days? Will there be bugs galore, making it hard to function? Is it really that cool? All of these questions and more will all be answered at 6 PM today…stay tuned for the BIRDS EYE VIEW…
Could there be another news crew out there?
Let the circus beginning… New York is expecting rain this evening and we’re about 29 hours away from the on-sale of the iPhone tomorrow… check back for regular updates
The line is starting to slowly grow looks to be over 10 folks in line at the 5th Ave Apple store…including some TV crews.
Bloginterviewer reached out to Vicariousmusic and asked us to do an interview…check it out!
According to Bob Lefsetz the below are the reasons the iPhone will fail:
1. Apple doesn’t dominate the handset business like it did with iPods. Not everybody needs data, yet…
2. No smartphone producer can compete with Apple, because of the underlying SOFTWARE! If you think Windows Mobile is a usable alternative, DO ME A FAVOR AND STICK WITH IT!
3. Steve Jobs becomes the most famous person in America. A new Charles Lindbergh, but with true cred.
4. The price of iPhones goes down as volume increases.
5. Macs blow up! An iPhone runs the same OS X as you’ve got on a Mac. Do you really think people are going to use Mac handhelds and want to stick with their Windows computers? Not gonna happen.
6. Although Apple Stores will continue to do boffo business, the days of going to the mobile store to get a phone and sign up will be GONE! The most interesting news to come from Apple today is that you activate your iPhone via iTUNES! And you know that will work… As for needing to go into a store to select a phone, HOW FUCKING COMPLICATED IS IT? That’s one thing Steve Jobs did when he came back to Apple, streamline the product line. And if you NEED handholding, you can go to the GENIUS BAR, as opposed to visiting the mobile store peopled with barely trained employees who barely last. Otherwise, you’ll just buy your iPhone on the Web.
7. Web-surfing will be de rigueur on handsets.
8. People will come to expect functionality from handsets. And the word will be spread by iPhone owners, who will demonstrate their prized possession to EVERYBODY! You could look at a Razr, but no one demonstrated how it worked, after all, it was JUST A PHONE!
9. After dropping the day of release, Apple stock will continue to climb.
10. Mac OS X Leopard will be a huge story in the press, garnering mucho coverage. Arcane features that only techies would have noticed previously will be trumpeted everywhere, drawing even more Windows users into the Mac fold.
11. More businesses will go Mac. Their employees will DEMAND IT!
12. A new level of functionality and usability will be expected from smartphones. It’s akin to the Japanese invading America with their automobiles. They were better built, and worked better too. The bar has just been raised. VERY HIGH!
13. Jimmy Iovine or one of his music biz buddies will clamor to pre-load the iPhone with their company’s music, but Steve Jobs will say no, he doesn’t want to foist anything upon his users, he doesn’t want to sully the user experience.
14. Movie studios will do business with Apple. This ain’t no iPod screen, this YOU CAN watch a movie on. They’re afraid of missing this market.
15. Dell won’t recover. Microsoft will have its cash, but having lost all credibility, purveying a lame OS, its stock will no longer ascend into the stratosphere.
16. You will remember this week, if not quite the same way as you remember Kennedy being shot or the Apollo moon-landing, close. Because this is a game changing event. Not like the Mets winning the ‘69 World Series, not like the Red Sox breaking the curse, but BIGGER! This is not momentary, this is FOREVER! This is like the World Wide Web, this IRREVOCABLY changes the game.
17. You will want one. Even if you never had a smartphone before. You will want to play, just like you purchased your first computer to use AOL.
18. Naysayers will exist. Most losing their credibility, being shown as having an investment in a competitor.
19. The NEXT Jobs speech will be must see TV. Expect new iMacs and new iPods in the fall.
20. Cheaper iPhones will arrive when supply catches up with demand. At the latest, at next year’s January MacWorld conference.
21. iPod growth will start to level off. People will prefer the iPhone.
22. Mobile music stores will have a hard time getting traction. You SIDELOAD the iPhone. To buy music on Verizon? WHY? Unless it’s cheap and sans copy protection, so you can load it on your iPhone WHEN YOU GET ONE!
23. The iPhone will function on AT&T’s nascent high speed network by January, at the latest. AT&T’s stock will go up, it will invest in infrastructure, it will stop hemorrhaging subscribers, its chairman will be seen as a VISIONARY, lauded in “Forbes” and “BusinessWeek” for taking a risk.
24. The 80s conversion, wherein tech became cooler and more important than music, will be complete. The oldsters will run the major labels into the ground, new kids will continue to flock to tech startups, where they’ve got a CHANCE!
25. It will be YEARS before everybody is convinced that one device is enough. Just like those people who carried BlackBerries and cellphones in the past, there will be people carrying iPods and mobile handsets. Until…
26. It’s unclear whether Jobs will solve the next big convergence/tech problem, because right now he’s so far ahead of the game, inventing a device most people didn’t even know they needed, that we can’t SEE what the next device IS!
6 folks now in line…with them going on sale Friday we’re eager to see how quickly this line grows.
All plans with unlimited data – $59.99 for 450 minutes, $79.99 for 900 minutes and $99.99 for 1350 minutes.
Existing customers can add unlimited data for $20 – $40 with a varying number of text messages.
6/26 at 4:36 PM: The line outside the 5th Ave Apple has now grown to 5 folks, however the first 2 are simply now chair holding spots….shady
Kelly Clarkson performing at The Early Show today…Congratulations on the Album release “My December” today.
As you can see in the background Kelly Clarkson will be performing at 5:00 PM, nice for these waiters (which may now be 3 folks) to get some entertainment…
Being interviewed…
See the stage in the background for Kelly Clarkson’s album release show The Early Show
The Apple Store NYC…6/25 at 2:48 PM
The first two folks waiting outside for the iPhone…keep in mind it’s not released until 29th (4 DAYS!)
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SPACING OUT: Apple has made its first offensive into the social networking universe, announcing a deal to embed the iTunes store into the U.K. site Bebo, which boasts 8.8 million users, FT.com reports. They’ll be able to buy music directly from the profile of any musician who has a Bebo profile and whose music is available on iTunes. (6/13a)
So the word on the subway is Jay-Z may leave Def Jam and start up a new label with his main squeeze, Beyonce. Do we have your attention?
New Label??? Where? Well, the answer is possibly Apple iTunes. With Jay’s contract with Def Jam nearing it’s expiration date and Beyonce most likely finishing up her album commitment with Sony by the end of the year. This could be good timing…
Keep in mind if Jay leaves Def Jam he has the option of taking all the artists he signed…(laughing) his other girlfriend: Rihanna, Ne-Yo (ghost writer to the max), Rick Ross, Kanye (um do we need to continue), and Nas (CLASSIC). Not to mention Beyonce being done with her deal can also be an artist.
Why do I hear a cash register? Get your iPod now!!!
