FT.com are reporting, along with a surprising number of should-know-better tech sites such as IntoMobile, how most Apple iPhone users use more than 25MB of data a month, and this is being reported as a big earner for O2 and is being contrasted to only 2% of other phone users hitting the 25MB/month mark. A masterpiece of spin, considering that the iPhone comes with flat rate data and increased use actually harms O2's bottom line, while data use from other phones generates them revenue. Staggering. I see Ewan M agrees too, so it wasn't just me...
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Hey I didn't write it up on IntoMobile, you know how anti-iPhone I am. 😊
personaly i've given up even caring. blogs and websites i used to trust with cos of impartiality, now just iphone hit counters without reason. these are technophiles i thought knew better, but are now no better than tabloids.:frown:
Orophin, I agree, and the problem seems to come from technology journalists writing articles that just worship whatever is fashionable at that particular moment.
A couple of years ago there were many many (mostly-American) journalists saying how wonderful and market-changing the RAZR was, about how it was propelling Motorola to the top of the tree and how all other phone makers should learn from it. Now we find Motorola losing market share and slipping into third place, with massive losses in their phone business.
What journalists SHOULD have said was that the RAZR was just one model, it was being sold mainly on design rather than features, and it was taking up a very large percentage of Motorola's sales. That was always a recipe for disaster because phones that come into fashion can just as easily go out of fashion, and Moto was putting all its eggs in one basket by relying on a single model so much.
The same technoworship seemed to develop among gaming journalists when the PS2 was at the height of its popularity, and there was a general assumption that the PSP and PS3 would outsell any possible competition, with the Wii and DS just novelty items and not "real" games systems. What actually happened was the PSP and PS3 find themselves in distant second places due to their high price, unimaginative design and lack of must-have games, while the Wii and DS are outselling all other consoles put together.
Dodgy reporting aside, I'm not sure how much an "unlimited" tariff matters with an iPhone. I use mine fairly intensively and have only used about 115mb per month, which wouldn't even dent the T-Mob/3 1gb capped tariff. It would be more interesting to know at what limit O2 will start restricting their other users on their �7.50 "unlimited" tariff, who use 3G devices that can hammer the bandwidth. Perhaps they should bear in mind other ISPs whom OFCOM has rapped on the knuckles for promoting "unlimited" service.
Thanks God my network doesn't levy any data charges, log for packet data runs in GBs on my N70. :laugh:
First of all the iPhone should be called, iPod with phone as it is more iPod and less phone. I to agree that the American journalist are apologists and appeasers. iLounge just handed one Appleinsider his head over a stupid article claiming that the new AV cables Apple sells has no verifying chip inside. $49 (cable set), $9 (steak knife to cut open cable set), we find that the author Daniel Dilger has $0 credibility.
krisse wrote:The same technoworship seemed to develop among gaming journalists when the PS2 was at the height of its popularity, and there was a general assumption that the PSP and PS3 would outsell any possible competition, with the Wii and DS just novelty items and not "real" games systems. What actually happened was the PSP and PS3 find themselves in distant second places due to their high price, unimaginative design and lack of must-have games, while the Wii and DS are outselling all other consoles put together.
Perfect analogy! SONY PS3 = Nokia S60 button-ridden phones with unimaginative Windows 3.1 look-alike UI design; Nintendo Wii = Apple iPhone with fresh UI design and paradigm. Now let's watch Nokia going down.
Macboy, let's see what the results are, first. iPhone is a good game-changing product (I own one, too), but it isn't the only device there, and the point is that the mobile phone market is fast-moving. Nokia, Samsung, LG, and others arent' standing still (and neither is Apple). S60 Touch looks like it will be a great platform, and hopefully Apple won't keep on deliberately crippling its products (e.g. the lack of full Bluetooth capabilities).
As for O2, sales of 200,000 iPhones by mid-January would give it a per-capita sales rate similar to the first 74 days of the iPhone in the US, although one significant difference is that the first 74 days of iPhone sales in the US were during summer, while the UK was during the holiday season. It remains to be seen how well iPhone sales will be for a full year, and exactly when we will see an upgrade, and how significant it will be. I would not be surprised if by Macworld, Apple can announce 200K phones in the UK, 300K in France, and 150-200K in Germany. That would mean it would have had to have sold 2.9 million in the US from 9/30-1/15, which is conceivable, but not a certainty, if it is to hit 5 million by Macworld Expo (the current rumor). Personally, I wouldn't want to see Apple continue to smash projections with the current phone, since it would give the company the incentive to rest on its laurels and not give us significant improvements to the camera or built-in applications (i.e. letting them rely on third parties to make up for the phone's shortcomings). I'd like healthy sales, but also healthy sales of competitors, including Nokia.
I use an E90 and have averaged about 130 MB per month in the six months that I've owned it. While the iPhone is an interesting device, I would never use it because it's so locked down by Apple. I have many different applications loaded on my E90 and that's what I most aboit it. Also, I've used touch screens before and I know that under even moderate use the wear out.
Mark