Comments on: I think there will be a new iPhone in June/July

By: Jennifer R.

Jennifer R. — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:17:09 +0000

There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in this subject. So, just want to say great job!

By: tl;dr » More “new iPhone” stuff

tl;dr » More “new iPhone” stuff — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:02:55 +0000

[...] as I mentioned in my previous article, this ties into some evidence from an analytics firm dating back to Oct 2008 that it may be a [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:01:48 +0000

This repeat of last years trend sort of lends creedence to your hypothesis too Rich: http://tinyurl.com/dgex5m

By: rich

rich — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:26:50 +0000

What’s in it for Apple? The chance to sell stuff and subtly reinvent the netbook market.

Consider the iPod Touch, which retails for £165-£283. I don’t know how much capacitive touchscreens costs. Is their room in the budget to remove most of the flash RAM from the 32Gb model and take the screen up to, say, 7″ diagonal (that would be four times the physical area of the iPhone), and sell it for £300 at a profit? And would people buy that?

I might. The iPhone is a great portable web browser but sometimes you just want a bit more screen size when you are slouched on the settee. That’s why people buy netbooks — web, IM, email around the house. A slate form factor can do that just as well as a laptop one can, better in many ways (I’d much prefer a touchscreen to a glidepad).

But underneath, it’s made from phone bits — ARM processors — and not laptop bits. Sure, it has no general purpose OS, and you can’t download apps off the web for it. But not many netbook owners do that anyway.

Likely? Perhaps not. Possible? I think definitely yes.

By: Mike Landers

Mike Landers — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:15:47 +0000

Noone can anwser the question “why should Apple release a netbook”? Already the original idea has been bastardised into just another laptop, but a bit smaller, so what is in it for Apple. A 10″ touchscreen device is going to be stupidly expensive compared to other netbooks and that is before the Apple premium.

I’m getting ever closer to cracking and getting an iPhone, mind. Bah!