AT&T stores will close at 4:30 PM on June 29th and reopen again at 6 PM, with all sorts of new iPhone regalia and doodads all over the place. Stores will stay open late; there’s no official word on how late but the Boy Genius report heard midnight. There is no word yet on what will be done at Apple stores.
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Ok, so now more details are emerging on Apple and AT&T’s luanch plans. Pay attention, because this is a bit on the strange side. Apparently AT&T stores will be closing around 4:30. Customers will actually be kicked out of stores at that time (that’s no joke). Why, you ask? Because Apple has tightly managed initial iPhone fulfillment to stores so that shipments will arrive at AT&T Wireless stores between 4:30pm and 6:00opm. After 6:00pm the stores will reopen and will stay open unusually late (as late as midnight) to cope with iPhone demand. How bout that?
Analysts are projecting iPhone growth will add at least 1 Million new subscribers to AT&T by Q4 ‘07, with an additional 3.5 Million added by late next year. Amazing that a phone could spark such growth!
In a report to clients on Thursday, equity research analyst Mike McCormack said his latest model has the inaugural Apple handset contributing 915,000 new subscribers to AT&T’s wireless network during the second half of this year, with an additional 3.5 million likely to follow in 2008. McCormack’s latest calculations represent an approximate 17 percent increase to his previous estimate of 5.4 million new subscribers in 2007, and a 76 percent increase to his 2008 estimate of 4.6 million newcomers. The iPhone should also help curb AT&T’s churn (or loss of subscribers) during the same time frames, the analyst said.
AppleInsider is reporting via a tipster that AT&T will not be offering the iPhone to its Business Account customers. If you fall into that camp, you’ll need to purchase your unit through individual contracts.
I can hear the collective screams of biz users as loud as the guy from the Paris Hilton press conference. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Here’s something that will make your blood peculate. AT&T Senior VP, James W. Cicconi, says the company recently began working with movie studios and record labels to develop anti-piracy technology targeting offenders. Now, I’m all for copyright protection, in fact I am one of the few sick bastards that actually supports DRM (in tolerable form), but I draw the line when my privacy is sacrificed. I don’t consume or traffic in narcotics, but that doesn’t mean I would allow the police to enter my domicile every night to check under my bed for drugs.
In a perfect world, government would step in to intercede on our behalf. But in reality Uncle Sam will simply want a piece of the action. sigh
Fresh from AT&T, the company is sending out notification emails to anyone who subscribed to its iPhone news list, further confirming what we already knew. iPhone will be available starting 6:00pm June 29. What the email doesn’t disclose is how or where to get one!!!
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AT&T has begun displaying publicly displaying iPhone banners announcing the device’s impending launch date.
Source: MacRumors
Repent, sinner! The end is near. Apocalypse is upon us! Well not quite, but all the half-joking speculation about customers camping out to buy an iPhone on June 29 may prove to be reality after all.
According to various sources Apple is sitting on a stockpile of just 3 million units ready for shipment.
Still, Apple will need to execute flawlessly. In units built and shipped, the iPhone launch will dwarf anything Apple has attempted. It plans to have 3 million iPhones ready for sale on June 29, two sources say. (Apple won’t comment.) And with its touch-screen keyboard, powerful battery-sapping processors, and a panoply of new applications, the iPhone is far more complex than the iPod. Glitches could lead to costly recalls and returns if buyers find the phone buggy or confusing.
Source: BusinessWeek
C|Net UK chats up the coming apocalypse sparked by iPhone shortages.
Sales representatives also said they are expecting big crowds for the launch, many of whom are likely to camp out overnight in front of stores to make sure they are one of the first to get the new phone. “If I were you, I’d probably try going to some little store in New Jersey that nobody knows about,” the Times Square representative said. Even Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, suggested to technology pundit Arianna Huffington that she go to an AT&T store where lines might be shorter than at Apple’s stores.
I’m scared. Someone hold my hand.
Some analysts are speculating that iPhone may have an unexpected benefit to other carrier as well. The logic being that everyone wants one, but not everyone can afford one or switch carriers. Ergo they will seek cheaper or available alternatives like the recently announced HTC Touch.
“Americans typically have never paid the full price that the cell phone even costs to manufacture,” Entner said. Despite this factor, Entner said, the iPhone is likely to enjoy success. He also expects to see a “ruboff effect” benefiting multiple companies offering music services.”The Apple phone is being positioned as the Rolls-Royces or Ferraris of all phones,” Entner said. Not everyone, of course, can afford such a pricey model. “You go to the Ferrari dealership and ogle the Ferrari,” Entner said, “but then you go buy a Pontiac.”
Via The Herald
