Tunji Afonja from Efiko Software informs me that he has created a new custom ringtone application that enables iPhone users to roll their own ringtones, bypassing Apple’s lame default set of barely audible tones. Thank God someone developed this software. The Marimba sound is getting on my nerves!
UPDATE: Matt Miller has posted a walkthrough video showcasing the features of iPhoneRingtoneMaker.
An online media service called Texterity delivers mobile editions to popular print magazines right to your iPhone, via Safari. In a nutshell, what Texterity does is simply digitize each print magazine page, turning it into an image file that can then be displayed and viewed within Safari much like a photo. Just point your browser (from the iPhone) to http://iphone.texterity.com/magazines/. Tap on any magazine that you like and a fully illustrated thumbnail library appears, representing pages from the selected magazine. Using the “Pinch” gesture, allows you to zoom and drag any portion of the document, making it readable. Believe it or not this is a workable solution. I’ve tried it myself.
Unfortunately no adult content is available, sorry pervs. And what’s worse Rachael Ray’s “EveryDay” Magazine is among the top featured. Having to see RR on my TV is nauseating enough. On my iPhone the experience is even more hideous.
I don’t know about you, but I just can’t get enough of pointless product comparisons. It’s like watching a building burn to the ground. They have a certain hypnotic effect that seizes your attention and keeps you fixated on each biased point. So it comes as no surprise when major media companies engage in lame attempts to grab our eyeballs with idiotic iPhone vs. insert something here as a way of generating ad revenue. Hey, someone has to click on those Google ads to keep the lights on.
Enter C|Net. Editor Veronica Bellmont compares iPhone to the heavy weight champ from Finland, the Nokia N95. As usual, the points are all quite valid but lack relevance. People who want a Nokia N95 don’t want an iPhone, and vice versa. So why the hell compare these two phones? Why not compare the iPhone to a toaster oven while you’re at it? After all, iPhone can’t make toast, and who doesn’t enjoy a warm buttered slice of toast? sigh
Anyway, if you’re feeling bored feel free to click the link below and waste several minutes of your life. I did!
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.
This is an article that I’ll be updating throughout Apple’s Quarterly Earnings report for Q3 2007. All times are CST.
The Wall Street Journal has an article on Jobs, his war on hardware buttons, and the minimalism that so often occupies their devices. [via Slashdot]
USA Today posted tiny snippets of an interview with Steve Wozniak, shown above playing Segway Polo. Apparently, the iPhone was the theme of the brief interview. The view from the clouds is that Woz loves the iPhone, but he’s still using his RAZR for voice, though he vastly prefers the iPhone to other smartphones. He’s got a wish list of things he wants to see in the iPhone, and he intends to give his wish list to Jobs. Here’s a short rundown:
The amusing thing about this is how it all makes Fake Steve Jobs annoyed:
So now we’ll have to waste half a day bringing him in and hearing all his big ideas and letting him draw on a white board and give orders to some cafeteria workers that we dress up as engineers.
This guy went off on a rant about Microsoft and their approach to mobiles. I thought it was amusing, so here it is.
There’s a spate of stories (my favorite was from Om Malik) out there about the dip in AAPL stock, how analysts originally thought there were up to 700,000 activations, but AT&T’s Q3 earnings report indicated a different story, 146,000 activations that first weekend. The stock dipped quite a bit on this news, something like 8% at its peak, but I’m sure Piper Jaffray remains confident that Apple stock will hit $205. Anyway, one thing that I’ve realized from AT&T’s earnings report is that their 40% of iPhone activations that came from other carriers is in line with the 40% of non-AT&T subscribers on their iPhone email notification list.
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