Piper Jaffray issued a stock target of $205 for Apple, based off shared revenue from AT&T iPhone users, a projected 45 million iPhone sales by 2009, and math.
July 2007: Monthly Archive
The iPhone Dev wiki team ran the first 3rd party application on the iPhone. The program is a simple one, it spits out “Hello, World” when run; ‘Hello, World’ is typically one of the simpler things to program on most platforms and that it was chosen as the 1st app is unsurprising. Here’s the notice they posted on their site:
After many, many hours of intense work from “Nightwatch”, the first independent “Hello World”* application has been compiled and launched on the iPhone. This was made possible using the “ARM/Mach-O Toolchain”, Nightwatch’s “special project”, that he has been working on so carefully over the past few weeks. Certain parts of the toolchain (such as the assembler) are being refined and tested and these will be released as soon as possible.
It should be noted that Nightwatch has been instrumental in creating these tools, working in near isolation to get them finished. Nightwatch was also responsible for the “jail exploit” that he developed from information he and other members of the the dev team discovered.
Please join us to thank Nightwatch, Tmiw, Darkten and Daeken for making this happen.
This is really big news; outside of Apple, there wasn’t any known linker or assembler or ABI for Apple’s Mach-O on the ARM processor platform (and a compiler is pretty useless without them). The toolchain that they built provides those missing tools, and now that it’s confirmed to work, they can refine those tools and begin 3rd party development in earnest. W00tding, the iPhone goes up a level.
Take this with a grain of salt, but Apple makes an estimated $11 per month if the iPhone customer switched to AT&T from a different network, $3 per month if the iPhone user was already on AT&T. Also, AppleCare for the iPhone is $69, and Pogue’s Missing Manual is out. Vodaphone officially “looks forward” to a 3G iPhone. Don’t we all, though?
There’s about 20,000 new widgets on the way from Plusmo, a service that modifies content to make it available for mobile users. Word has it that they’re almost finished optimizing their content for the iPhone and should be done next week.
This one was awarded by a New York branch of the Smithsonian, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Smithsonian. He was awarded at a special ceremony at the White House, and was handed the award by First Lady Laura Bush. Not too shabby! His last design award was two months ago, I was starting to get worried. Hey, put the trophy over there on that pile of trophies.
I haven’t really heard much about lack of availability, or anyone that was trying to get an iPhone that wasn’t able to get one, but they still sell out some locations every day. It looks like Apple is managing the high demand for the iPhone well; the daily shipments method of replenishing inventory insures that 1) high demand, or the illusion of it, continues, and 2) if they’re out where you’re shopping, you should be able to show up tomorrow morning and get one. According to SeekingAlpha, the demand for iPhones was supposed to dry up, but is still going strong.
Santa is watching you. Well Steve Jobs is anyway. AppleInsider says that Apple will introduce new iPhone models in Q4, hoping to expand its Smartphone line.
Extremely reputable sources have told AppleInsider in recent weeks that the company’s iPhone roadmap for the 2007 calendar year includes not one but two distinct models, the second of which is set to turn up just months after the first. According to one source, development of the second model has followed so closely on the heels of the inaugural iPhone that it was making its final pass through engineering around the same time that today’s model hit the manufacturing lines back in May or early June.
AppleInsider reports that Apple has filed a patent on technology used to dynamically display text, such as song lyrics, in a motion perspective. The text would scroll or otherwise move across the display, adapting to user interaction. Hmm…sounds a bit like CoverFlow, doesn’t it?
Harry McCracken writes on PC World’s TechBlog that after spending one week with an iPhone he found the device to be incredibly cool, but also impractical for his needs. So traded it in for a Windows Mobile device, the AT&T 8525 (HTC Hermes).
He outlines 13 reasons why he doesn’t want the iPhone.
- The iPhone isn’t 3G
- The iPhone can’t serve as a modem
- The iPhone doesn’t talk to Lotus Notes
- The iPhone doesn’t have a chat client
- There’s no Slingbox client for the iPhone
- The iPhone doesn’t have enough storage to be my primary media player.
- The iPhone requires too many clicks to get stuff done.
- The iPhone is remarkably uncustomizable
- The iPhone doesn’t let you edit office documents
- And it doesn’t have a To-Do List
- And its note-taking app is too bare-bones to be very useful
- The iPhone’s contract requirement rankles me
- The iPhone’s virtual keyboard is surprisingly good; the 8525’s real one is better
Even if you don’t have an iPhone, it looks as if there’s a chance you can get iTunes syncing from your mac to your other phone. A German company called nova media wrote an app that works with some of the major featurephones (and some Nokia smartphones, too), though their compatibility list isn’t yet complete. If your phone isn’t listed, there’s an app you can download to test. [via]
