This is the exact tactic Apple and Steve Jobs have used for ensuring the success of the iPhone mobile platform. From what we've seen so far, it looks like it might just work.
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Reasons why iPhone2 and App Store might just kill:
- Established distribution platform: iTunes
- Innovative, useful hardware interface (iPhone)
- Enterprise support
- Ability to move from personal life to work life in a heartbeat (very important!)
- Watching a clip to writing an e-mail for work
- Developer support and enthusiasm (sdk stats prove it)
- User base: 6 million, more to come
- Applications, applications and applications
- The more tools that are available on this platform to make my life easier. The more I will use this platform and the more likely I will be locked in.
- Easy upgrade path for legacy hardware.
- Plugin to iTunes and 1.0 --> 2.0 done. Have you tried doing this with any other phone on the market? Now multiply that times hundreds to thousands of phones in an average enterprise setup.
- Full Enterprise support
- 35% of fortune 500 companies have participated in enterprise beta program
- Support for higher-education
- Exchange support
- Push Email
- Contacts - Search
- Calendar
- Auto discovery
- Global Address book
- remote wipe
- SDK
- 250k Downloads.
- 4,000 companies and people in beta program
- API:
- Cocoa Touch
- Create great UI's easily
- Media,
- Core Services
- Access to db, location based GPS functionality and lot more
- Address Book API
- Neat feature: show contacts in 10 mile radius
- Cocoa Touch
- OS is the same kernel as Mac OS X
- Ready to go applications at App-store launch
- Sega games
- EBay
- Loopt
- Typepad
- Mobile News Network (Associated Press)
- Pangea Software
- MLB (baseball)
- MIMVista (medical)
- Digital Legends (3d fantasy game)
- Lot more. List will update as we find out more
- iPhone 3g Information
- Appearance
- Thinner, black plastic back, solid buttons, camera, headphone jack
- 3G
- 2.8 times faster.
- 36% faster than Nokia N95 or Treo
- Battery Life
- 300hrs of standby
- 5hrs talktime
- 5-6hrs browsing
- 7 hours video
- 24hrs audio
- GPS
- Combined with google maps can track movement of car
- Pricing
- $199 for 3G / 8GB
- $299 for 3G / 16GB
- Monthly Pricing
- 3G will cost $30/month for consumers
- 3G for business accounts will pay $45/month
- Voice account (required)
- 450 minutes: $39.99
- 900 minutes: $59.99
- 1,350 minutes: $79.99
- Unlimited: $99.99
- SMS
- 200 SMS included
- Unlimited will cost additional $20/month
- Available
- July 11th in 22 Countries
- Appearance
Who's going to play iPhone? Who's going to play PDA? in the new iPhone vs. PDA ads . . . .
More info on iPhone2 release