Comments on: iPhone 3G: Now serving 660 million potential customers

By: Gene Warech, Los Angeles CA

Gene Warech, Los Angeles CA — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:19:08 +0000

What leads wannabe "journalists" to mindlessly repeat that a bunch of people in costume with masks are meant to fool people into thinking they are customers waiting in line? A legitimate print jurnalist wants to know.

By: Viswakarma, New Orleans, USA

Viswakarma, New Orleans, USA — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:21:29 +0000

By the way don't forget the "Reverse Polish Notation" from Polish mathematician that is now used to "… reduce computer memory access and utilize the stack to evaluate expressions."(wikipedia)

By: Viswakarma, New Orleans, USA

Viswakarma, New Orleans, USA — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:15:23 +0000

Don't forget that India was and is more developed intellectually than most of the so called "developed" countries. Don't forget that without "zero" from India, there the so called developed countries will be still in dark ages with no cell phones that depend on zero's and one's!!!

By: Sarthak Delhi India

Sarthak Delhi India — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:31:57 +0000

wow a potntial 105 million people in india and the sell it for 708$for 8gb model….where is the math…where is the logic??!! i really wanted 1 till i heard the prices…

By: Zoltar, Lisbon, Portugal

Zoltar, Lisbon, Portugal — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:07:15 +0000

I have read several comments from India natives that many of their fellow country wo/men would easily spend half a year's salary on an iPhone and it doesn't surprise me at all, it actually makes sense.

Cellphones to Indians are like cars to Americans:

- like Americans overhaul their cars, Indians spend lots of money on cellphones. They most certainly can buy iPhones on credit like Americans buy their cars…

- it's a status symbol, it gets them chicks (quote)

- Indians usually don't have cars and many live with their family paying little to no rent. Their expenditure on food and clothes can be quite low too. So what else to spend one's money on, knowing that there is almost no fixed line infrastructure and distances are huge?!

It is deceiving – not to mention arrogant – to say that developing countries are poor, they simply have a different system to live by. People don't pay $3500/month for a straitjacket flat in the city, most have little expenses and save most of their hard earned money – those seemingly poor people actually have the money to spend on an iPhone. They have proven it before by buying Nokia's most expensive models in droves.

Similarly it is equally deceiving to say that they wouldn't be interested in buying devices like the iPhone because it is too expensive or sophisticated. Again that's the arrogant burgerhead view of the world – people want that sophistication because all they care about is to move up the scale!

Not that I'm saying that's what is written in here but I hear this a lot.

It is precisely the fact that those are developing countries that tells me that devices such as the iPhone and Apple's soon to follow Touch products (MacBook Touch tablet?) will likely be more coveted than in many so called "developed" countries – those people are far more thirsty of "developing tools" than others that are accustomed to live in abundance and many times are just looking for yet one more gadget to play with.

Mind you, I'm not even talking about the new HUGE class of affluent people.

And that the iPhone is a status symbol – did I say that already?!

By: Buckley Krumperman Los Angeles, CA

Buckley Krumperman Los Angeles, CA — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:32:25 +0000

So what are you and your bosses at Microsoft going to do, Philip? No matter how much anti-Apple propaganda you generate all over the internet, Apple keeps growing. Hiring Gerry Seinfeld won't help. Apple's going to win that battle easily.

By: Przemek Pajak, Katowice, Poland

Przemek Pajak, Katowice, Poland — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:43:17 +0000

I think they do the hired queues everywhere in the world. But there are no morons like Orange Poland's press officer who would admit this!

Buzz marketing should be done properly. There is nothing wrong with it unless you do it correctly. Poor products or poor services will die anyway. Buzz marketing helps get over media clutter.

By: NavMan Milpitas, CA

NavMan Milpitas, CA — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:30:36 +0000

I use LifeInPocket with my Motorola V3xx. I pay very small monthly fee to AT&T & it can do more than my friends' iPhone.

I download it from http://lifeinpocket.com/ and used it for 6 months. I never receive any unwanted message from them.

By: Sacto Joe, Sacramento, CA

Sacto Joe, Sacramento, CA — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:10:44 +0000

You could have clarified that the "for hire" queues weren't Apple's idea, but rather that of the Polish company selling the iPhones.

But that wouldn't give as much of a negative connotation, now would it….

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