But Apple simply can't compete with Nokia and SonyEricsson releasing new phones at a pace of 40-50 each year, selling billions. It might come as a surprise to Americans, but cell phones are consumer products with a short time to live.
Apple can't keep up with this. It would require Apple to become 10 times larger than it is today and it would distract Apple from their business into a low margin and hectic race. Jobs knows that.
But keep your eyes open for different iApps compatible with a lot more phones. I have seen some of the work and it is lickable.
Apple Computerが米国時間2月28日に「面白い新製品」を発表する。同社がこの製品発表に際して、報道関係者に送った招待状の電子メールには「Appleからいくつか面白い新製品が出ますので、どうぞお越し下さい("Come see some fun new products from Apple.")」としか書かれていなかった。そのために、「Appleから発表されるのはタッチスクリーン式のiPodだ」「ラップトップかタブレット PCの新製品だ」「いや、スマートフォンが発表されるに違いない」など、いつもに増してさまざまな憶測が飛び交う結果となっている。(CNET)
Smarthouse.com.au reports that according to insiders at a Taiwanese phone maker (BenQ), Apple has been talking to a number of Taiwanese phone makers in an effort to cut a manufacturing deal on an iPod Phone.
The Mac maker has placed an order for 12 million iPhones to be built by a Taiwanese contract manufacturer, according to an analyst citing reports from Asia. Hon Hai Precision, whose customers include Apple, Cisco, Dell, Nokia, and Sony, has received the order, according to a Taiwan media report cited by UBS Investment Research.
(Red Herring)
Apple Computer Inc. has filed for a patent that suggests plans for a wireless phone that combines the company's hugely successful iPod MP3 music player and a cellular telephone may be in the works, according to an application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
The patent does not specifically announce an iPod and phone combination, but the application describes a "portable computing device capable of wireless communications" and said the application is a continuation in part of older patent applications for a "media player system". (AP)