BloggingStocks http://www.bloggingstocks.com BloggingStocks http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/media/feedlogo.gif BloggingStocks http://www.bloggingstocks.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[$299 iPhone: the dream, the advertisement]]>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/02/16/299-iphone-the-dream-the-advertisement/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/02/16/299-iphone-the-dream-the-advertisement/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/02/16/299-iphone-the-dream-the-advertisement/#commentsI know, you're probably sick of hearing me wax rhapsodic about the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone. It's not going to stop anytime soon (at least, not for 105 days or so). Especially not today.

Because today, I was thrilled to see an email subject line from my buddies at Engadget: something about $300 and iPhone. Those two concepts were adjacent to one another, causing me unreasonable joy, and immediately I click-click-clicked away.

Sure enough, a big glossy photo of a leaked Cingular iPhone ad proclaimed that the 4GB version of the most-wanted mobile phone would be offered for $299 with a two-year wireless service contract, starting at $39.99 per month. I have Cingular and I've already called: I'm eligible for "upgrade" starting in March, so I'm definitely going to plead my case for the iPhone when said advertisement becomes reality.

Many critics of Apple's take-over-the-mobile-world strategy have said that consumers won't pay $499 for a new mobile phone. First, I think those critics are largely wrong (I keenly remember paying $495 for a Palm Pilot six or seven years ago, so there), and secondly: $299 is a lot more palatable. The rumor doesn't seem to have had much affect on Apple's stock (and maybe it's just not widely-spread enough, yet): it was down 38 cents, or about half a percent, to $84.83 for the day.

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Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) ended the day at $76.41, down $1.20 or 1.55% after having a very strong week of gains that made me wonder yesterday if we'd be seeing $80 soon.

Certainly there are a lot of positives, with iPhone mania and scuttlebutt starting up, but Apple is generating some negative buzz with its attack on all things 'pod.' Use the words iPod and podcasting and Apple comes after you. Is this a reasonable attempt to protect trademarks, or is Apple going a bit overboard?

Add to that the fact that Apple is battling its media providers, with one of them yanking content worth 10,000 downloads a day from the iTunes store. It's the Major League Baseball radio podcast that people can download for free, but the reason it was yanked was due to Apple's uncooperative interactions with MLB, something many media companies report being dissatisfied with. Apple needs to mend some of these relationships as it tries to woo large studios to host their movies for download.

Apple after the bell 9/27/06: Apple loses iTunes content originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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