iPhone Passion

According to Gizmodo, analysts have speculated that each of the shiny iPhones will generate nearly 50% gross margin.

“iSuppli estimates the 4Gbyte version of the Apple iPhone will carry a $229.85 hardware BoM and manufacturing cost and a $245.83 total expense, yielding a 50.7 percent margin on each unit sold at the $499 retail price,” said Andrew Rassweiler, teardown services manager and senior analyst for iSuppli. “Meanwhile, the 8GByte Apple iPhone will sport a $264.85 hardware cost and a $280.83 total expense, amounting to a 53.1 percent margin at the $599 retail price.”

Off course, nobody even looks at the huge costs of R&D, the pattents, the marketing, the design, the sales force. I’d say their real margin is around 30% and will grow up as the sales rise.

According to this blog , Jeff Han, the inventor of the multitouch screen that everyone raved at during February 2006 has in fact turned down Apple’s offer. His plans? To turn his new company, Perceptive Pixel, into a major player. It seems that Apple’s iPhone multitouch is in fact based on the technology from Synaptics.

Han’s technology seems to be the basis for LG’s PRADA phone which is coming in fast steps, and although iPhone has the buzz right now, I guess the PRADA is going to be a major success; smaller, maybe more feminine, less gadgety and the first to hit European stores.

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The iPhone has been kept a secret for over 2 year. No wonder so many rumors have been spread all around the net. The guys from Everything iPhone have gathered together some of the most impressive fake iPhone prototypes.

Some more pictures after the fold, or directly at the link above.

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I simply love how they took email and made it absolutely lovely. And usable.

From Lifehacker we heard about one of the coolest torrents around: apparently you can find the complete archive of Steve Jobs keynotes ever since his return to Apple.
Maybe not as exciting as an action flick, but a nice piece of history to have around. After all…

It’s worth downloading just to see how much Apple has changed and/or innovated in one decade.

Here is the direct link to pirate bay’s page. And, please, people, if you donwload it, then seed it as well…:)

The iPhone – the most complete gadget ever : it has an electric razor, blow drier, lipstick, mace, and many many more.

The guys from 37signals have a pretty novel idea: what if, for the iPhone, one could define motion-trail shortcuts to launch his favorite apps? Given that the multi-touch screen allows several contact points simultaneously (Steve showed us two-finger gestures, but we could hope for even more), then the various motion shortcuts are numerous. For Firefox we already have the extensions for motion-based shortcuts. Why not something similar on the iPhone?
Anyway, read their idea over here. I say it’s worth thinking about…

Steve Jobs shows the Apple iPhone on Saturday Night Live – SNL Jan 13, 2007
Update 19/01/2007 – lost and found again. Here is another one:

Update 16/01/2007: unfortunately the video seems to have been erased by the YouTube guys. Damn!

“Steve Jobs” appeared on Saturday Night Live last night to talk about the iPhone and it’s even better than we thought. Apparently it holds 2 billion, with a ‘b,’ songs! And it even has an on/off button and a clock! Oh, yeah, and don’t forget to download The Office in iTunes.

(via TUAW)

Pretty funny. I personally like this video, although opinions seem to vary

The BoingBoing guys have made my day. Here is the coolest Apple phone image I saw lately. As they say: Apple phone: no need to wait for June on this one.

Techcrunch has an interesting insight on Apple’s UGLY practice of bullying bloggers, that’s getting UGLIER by the minute. You know the first case: Apple taking bloggers to court because of published pictures of the Mac Mini.
Now, they are getting beyond the absurd: somebody created a skin for Windows Mobile phones that looks exactly like the new iPhone user interface. Somebody else created one for the Palm. Now, Apple lawyers are threatening all bloggers that even LINK to the software in question.
I believe Apple is BAD whenever doing this. While the creators of the skins in question might breach the copyright(although, come on, the iPhone won’t be any less successful because of these skins; even more, they will make it even more popular), the persons linking to them are in a very legal position, nonetheless.
SO. Without any further ado.
Also, please read engadget’s take on the matter . Dont’ forget to read gizomodo’s one as well.

How to install? Read details at the links pointed from techcrunch, and here as well.

Joy of Tech’s “the other iPhone lawsuit”