Sunday, January 21, 2007
50% Margins on iPhone?
Apple phone is expected to cost $600. Cingular (at&t) won't be allowed to discount it. The cost to manufacture an 8 Gbyte iPhone is estimated to be about $280. As iTunes exists to sell iPods, so now mobile service exists to sell iPhones. True, as Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO points out, iPhone doesn't have a keypad, so text entry might be a bit of a chore. Still, this device is going to get lots of attention, and sales, from professionals, engineers and other people who just think it is the coolest phone on the market.
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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