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A Des Moines Iowa physician, Peter V. Boesen, has filed a patent suit against Apple, claiming copyright infringement over iPhone’s onscreen keyboard. Boesen holds a patent through a company called SP Technologies, who claims to have held a patent on iPhone’s technology since 2004.

The irony in this story is that Mr. Boesen is currently sentenced to 51 months in a federal penitentiary on healthcare fraud charges. I guess Dr. Boesen never heard the phrase “Physician, heal thyself”.

My prescription for the good Doctor is to take two cyanide pills and call me in the morning.

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AppleInsider reports that Apple may be readying its first major software update for iPhone, set for release very soon now. According to the article, Apple VP Greg Joswiak told analysts that it expects to release an update soon. Exactly what may be contained within the update remains uncertain. It could simply be a package of bug fixes, or a mashup of new applications and features.

We’ll be watching.

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Apple just sent out a press release proudly boasting that its iTunes Store has now sold over 3 Billion Songs. Congratulations Apple. Now how about giving away free iPods to loyal customers, eh? No? Well I tried.

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Not everyone loves their iPhone, it seems. Jose Trujillo, whoever the hell that is, has begun a class action suit against both Apple and AT&T, claiming damages as a result of the iPhone’s non-replaceable battery that, according to Jose, can only be charged 300 times. Apparently he didn’t check facts before filing. Had he done so he would have known that the battery is in fact good for 400 charges and beyond. Even at that point the battery DOES NOT need serviced – it simply won’t hold a full charge.

Still, I blame Apple for unnecessarily creating this issue in the first place by bolting down the hood, so to speak, and failing to clearly disclose the battery’s true lifespan and performance.

Jose, if you read this, I refer you to my attorneys from the law firm of Dewey, Screwem, and Howe. They’ll work hard to steal win your money.

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A lot of the Analysts are trying to figure out why the iPhone did so poorly over the launch weekend, and a lot of sites are trying to figure out why the overall number of phones sold (270,000) is so much lower than, ahem, some analysts predicted. I haven’t seen it covered yet, so here it is: analysts were basing numbers based on the launch weekend, Friday the 29th, Saturday the 30th, and Sunday the 1st. Note that the 1st isn’t in the 3Q results: Apple reported on the first 30 hours of launch. That would be the 29th and 30th. It seems the market already knows it, Apple’s all back up to $143 in pre-market trading now, but it ought to be said.

Yesterday’s earnings report from Apple contained several nuggets of information sure to make any wall street jokey salivate. For starters the company posted yet another record breaking profit-heavy quarter – the folks in Cupertino are celebrating over that, I’m sure. Sales of iPods are flatlining. And over 270,000 iPhones were sold within the first 30 hours, starting on June 29. This throws a glass of iCe water in the face of AT&T’s report disclosing that only 146,000 were activated over the weekend of iPhone’s launch – news that put many analysts on anti-depressants.

A sell-through rate of 270,000 units in just 30 hours will likely cause Apple’s competitors to shit themselves, but the sales beyond iPhone Mania weekend likely fall sharply as time passed and hype deflated. We’ll have to wait for Apple to get one full quarter of iPhone sales under its belt before we know what its long term sales performance looks like.

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This is an article that I’ll be updating throughout Apple’s Quarterly Earnings report for Q3 2007. All times are CST.

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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.

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.

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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?

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