iPhone: Keep waiting
September 6, 2007
To be honest I was far from all the showtime frenzy yesterday, although Moscone center is a part of my office window view (reminds me that I should finally update my office page with pictures of my new office!). It was just another calm coding day, em, actually relatively calm - our team got into a hard argument about some new cool UI stuff that I can't tell you about yet. But some news did get through - like people running in the direction of the Apple Store, shouting something unintelligible like "refund... 10 days...iPhone... help" when I went out to have my lunch, which made me check the news upon my return and find out the truth.
Here's my guess about the iPhone price cut - I think it has something to do with the fact that the iPhone might be going to get an improvement soon. How about 3G for example? How about the fact that EDGE standard doesn't really exist in Europe as far as I know and they are about to launch iPhone in Europe pretty soon, probably in November or December? You might be tempted to buy an iPhone now that they got cheaper, but, don't be fooled! I think that the price was lowered to clear out inventory before Apple releases a better model with 3G support. Nobody's going to buy a slow 2G iPhone once the 3G is announced, so Apple needs to get rid of them now, during the holiday season, while they still have a chance.
BTW, I don't have an iPhone and I don't yet plan to buy one. However I was quite tempted by the iPod Touch when I saw it yesterday.
Update 08.09: it seems that my theory is confirmed by the article that got on Digg front page today with the following summary:
3G iPhone with 16GB set to drop on November 12th. Apple may launch its iPhone campaign in Europe with a 3G-capable iPhone with enhanced storage, according to what appears to be a leaked ad from T-Mobile Germany. The ad promises HSDPA Internet access (up to 3.6Mbps!) and 16GB of flash. Hope you didn't buy that $399 iPhone assuming it wouldn't get better!Posted by sgehrman at September 6, 2007 3:37 PM | TrackBack
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Bonne analyse… Une version 2 devrait tomber avec ce que nous souhaitons en Europe… Et en mpeme temps, quand MS fait chuter ses prix sur le Zune, tout le monde — pour le coup — se marre…
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Thanks for sharing your iPhone insights. I'd be pretty tempted to pick one up if they were available here in Canada, but in the end would probably choose to wait until the next generation comes along. I wouldn't be too surprised to see a 16GB version with 3G support within the next six months.
The iPod touch is certainly a cool product. Though, given that it's not that much cheaper than the iPhone. I'd rather hold off for now - and get the phone features as well as the camera and e-mail support (which appear to be missing from the iPod touch). Though, I wouldn't be too disappointed if I found one of these in my stocking on Christmas morning ;).
Cheers,
Tim