Comments on: France Telecom to carry Apple's iPhone to Africa and beyond

By: iSmashPhone, Philadelphia PA

iSmashPhone, Philadelphia PA — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:13:04 +0000

How did we get to geography question, I do not know.

My opinion, consumers will shift from mobile hardware to applications on mobile hardware. Looks like Apple doing all the right things, i.e. putting well integrated platform.

At the end it will be the fight between platforms and not hardware. How many platforms for mobile devices we have now – I can count over 5.

By: Dave, Cleveland, Ohio

Dave, Cleveland, Ohio — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:36:46 +0000

Signing these agreements gets market penetration for Apple, but not guaranteed sales. Many of the markets that they are entering have had 3g phones for sometime. The question is whether they can get customers to switch from the 3g phone they already have. The reason you haven't seen Apple's stock take off (as many have questioned), is because of this. They will hit their sales goals because of the breadth of the market they now have.

And yes RIMM has announced the "Thunder" which appears to be going head to head against Iphone in the "touchscreen" segment of the market. Should be very interesting. If executed properly by the engineers this could put a dent in Iphones corporate push.

By: Larry G. Chicago, IL

Larry G. Chicago, IL — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:29:18 +0000

So, how many Newly listed countries will be selling the new iPhone?

By: BH, Boston

BH, Boston — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:11:00 +0000

Dude, there no continent called “Middle East”, the Middle East is just a political region that includes countries in Asia and Northeast Africa. You were supposed to be educated, I guess?

ex ped: Did someone here call it a continent?

By: BH, Boston

BH, Boston — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:45:46 +0000

Jordan is not in Africa, it is part of the Asain continent.

ex ped: I'd call Jordan part of the Middle East.

By: lester, monroe, pa

lester, monroe, pa — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:16:42 +0000

RIMM IS HYPED&NBSP;RIMM at 62+ P/E and $400.00 split-adjusted stockprice goes up on, what, the rumor of an iPhone model wannabe sometime in the future?

Aplle stock earns every single cent, without the hype that pumps RIMM.

That stock is gonna tank hard!

Go Apple.

By: l ny

l ny — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:48:32 +0000

funny how news like this one or the others similar in the past few days would have moved Apple up 5% or more and now the market is just not responding .. i predict a jump next week , Apple is going to brake $200 by June