If the iPhone succeeds, it will very quickly have numbers that could dwarf the Mac and run down the iPod. That alone could lead to a significant halo effect. But being a very visual device with a sexy flavor of OS X running on it (unlike the iPods whose interface now looks suddenly 1983 by comparison) this will expose millions to the real Mac experience, especially, if as expected, Leopard bears much similarity to the iPhone’s OS X.

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Thanks Mike for leaving me the hint to your site iphoneconverter, it offers a lot of conversion software for the Apple iPhone.

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While checking the validity of a totally different unsubstantiated rumor, our contact dropped something of a bomb on accident. When asked if he or she could confirm our rumor (which we’ll get to later today), he or she responded that he or she saw something about it in an email, but didn’t read it, as it didn’t pertain to his or her job, and was late for a meeting at the time. I asked what kind of meeting, and he or she said, “Licensing for the iPhone.”

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UBS analyst Ben Reitzes feels the multi-touch display technology in Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL)  iPhone will be integrated into the Mac and iPod, amounting to a “Mega-Platform” that can propel Apple growth for years to come.

Apple may start introducing multi-touch technology in other products as early as 2008.
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Apple Inc. on Monday transformed its 32-foot glass cube in Midtown Manhattan into a enormous teaser advertisement for its upcoming iPhone handset.

Workers on scaffolds could be seen draping the semitransparent billboard ad down the entire right side of the glass structure that marks the entranceway to the company’s flagship retail store on Fifth Avenue, just south of Central Park.

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It all started with the release of the 5.5G iPod, which was when Apple officially released games on the iTunes store. Up until that point, we were all locked into the (rather boring) games included with the iPod. After trying some of the games for sale (or for free) at the iTunes store, I must say I was pleasantly surprised at how good they were, especially considering the platform.

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The avalanche of headlines and TV news stories about the iPhone - which hits the market in June - already have generated $400 million in free publicity, says Harvard Business School professor David Yoffie. “No other company has ever received that kind of attention for a product launch,” Yoffie says. “It’s unprecedented.”

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Apple’s iPhone is likely to prove a hit with consumers if the number of searches for its forthcoming cellular handset has anything to do with the product’s popularity.

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In the past couple of years, regular attendees to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) have seen a fundamental change in the makeup of the business: Mobile service, hardware and software vendors have taken up an increasing amount of the show floor. Graphics chip maker ATI Technologies, now part of Intel rival AMD, aims to compete for their attention with new efforts.

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Apple plans to deploy flash memory across its future products, American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu claimed last night.
“In our recent analysis of the supply chain, we are picking up more extensive use of NAND flash technology in Apple’s future product development plans,” Wu wrote.

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