Apple’s notoriously close-mouthed when it comes to the specifics of its business deals. In Monday’s financial results conference call, questions about Apple’s deal with AT&T were met with a polite but firm admonition from Fred Oppenheimer, followed by a comment about how nice the weather was in Siberia this time of year.
But that doesn’t prevent analysts from analyzing. Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray did a little bit of magic math and came up with a figure: $18. That’s the amount that AT&T gives Apple per month per iPhone customer, coming to a total of $432 over the life of a two-year contract. That number’s by no mean absolute; Citibank’s Richard Gardner did his own adding and subtracting and came up with a $12 figure, which works out to $288 for 24 months. Either way, it’s worth noting that if 250,000 iPhones were indeed purchased for unlocking, that’s a substantial amount of potential cash that Apple is losing out on—possibly as much as $130 million in profits. Just think how many iPhones they could buy with that…wait.
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The 1.1.1 crackfest continues with the release of iFunstastic 4.6.1. What can you do with iFuntastic? Heck, what can’t you do with it? Besides custom ringtones, changing up your Home screen, and altering the system sounds, the program also makes it a snap to jailbreak your phone, regardless of the firmware version. It’ll even walk you through downgrading to 1.0.2, jailbreaking, and then upgrading back to 1.1.1 in such a way that it keeps your phone hackable.
The major annoyance at this point is the time it takes, and the number of times you have to restart your phone along the way. Other than that, though, this is iPhone hacking at its best. One other note: iFuntastic is now shareware. You’ll get five free uses, but after that, you’ll have to pony up $5.
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In case the noise over the iPhone 1.1.1 software update bricking unlocked iPhones and disabling third-party apps drowned out news of the new features itself, worry not: we’re there for you. Over at the mothership we’ve put together a pretty darn comprehensive list of all the features you’ll find in 1.1.1, ranging from the obvious, like the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, to the not-so-obvious, such as the ability to specify ports in your Mail configuration (easy now, wipe up that drool).
There’s certainly plenty of room for Apple to keep improving the iPhone’s software, and keep in mind we’re just at 1.1.1. I’ve got my fingers crossed for a 1.2-level upgrade around Macworld Expo with more features. Who’s with me?
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If you didn’t take the time to listen to the entirety of Apple’s Q4 2007 financial results conference call yesterday, well, I can’t blame you. I did, and my eyes are still partially glazed over, perhaps explaining why I walked into the refrigerator this morning.
But if you weren’t listening, you may have missed a few interesting tidbits. Phil already covered the big news—1,119,000 iPhones sold in the quarter—but Apple also mentioned another tantalizing figure: 250,000. That’s the number of phones that they estimate were sold for the purposes of unlocking to date (out of the 1.4 million sold all year), or about 17% of all iPhones. They also noted that Apple doesn’t receive any money from AT&T for phones not activated on their network.
Seems to me that would explain the angry hue and cry raised at the 1.1.1 upgrade: that’s a lot of angry unlocked iPhone owners.
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Remember how three months ago when Apple released its third-quarter results, people saw that the company sold 270,000 iPhones for the quarter and — ignoring the fact the iPhone was on sale for about 36 hours during the quarter — began running around screaming “The iPhone is doomed, I tells you — DOOMED!”?
Well, Apple announced its fourth-quarter earnings Monday — Comrade Moren blogged the proceedings over at MacUser — and it seems like there’s much less of the iPhone-inspired panic this time around.
Apparently meeting your stated goal of selling 1 million phones before the end of September several weeks ahead of schedule nips that kind of hysteria in the bud.
Nevertheless, this is the first full quarter of iPhone sales, so let’s see how Apple did: 1,119,00 units for the three-month period ended September 30. That brings the grand total of iPhone sales to a shade under 1.4 million.
I just looked outside my window — no financial analysts are rampaging through the streets pronouncing wrack and ruin yet.
In fact, the most striking thing about the iPhone sales figure is how little attention they’re getting. I guess a second consecutive quarter of record Mac sales will tend to overshadow things just a bit.
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