Comments on: Apple’s New iPhone Business Models

By: Alex Osterwalder

Alex Osterwalder — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:55:13 +0000

The business model that Apple is married to IS the integration. They have taken a holistic view of industries that are traditionally disintegrated. It’s quite amazing how they achieved this…

By: Gerard

Gerard — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:47:16 +0000

Even if this is completely unfounded rumors, going the unlocked route makes a lot of sense to me… but to protect their revenue from the mobile phone network operators, Apple will move the lock-in to the software on the network side, so that you only get the cool features supported by your iPhone when you subscribe to one of the official mobile phone operators (and Apple gets rev-share). I wrote a blog entry a week ago about this: http://blog.metrailler.net/2008/05/18/unfounded-rumor-iphone-2-will-be-unlocked/

By: John Blackburn

John Blackburn — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:02:07 +0000

It’s more likely that the App Store will let you register the iPhone directly. More details about that a comprehensive list of carriers, countries and whether the countries currently have iTunes Stores at http://watchingapple.com/2008/05/how-about-29-new-international-itunes-stores/.

By: MikieMikie

MikieMikie — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:49:05 +0000

Your paragraph that outlines Apple's spherical integration is a nice way to sum up how differently this company approaches its businesses.

Thanks for the interesting opinions.