Comments on: Look Ma, I’m Blogging from my iPhone! http://augustjackson.net/2008/12/02/look-ma-im-blogging-from-my-iphone/ Your home on the Internet for competitive intelligence, tech punditry and bad spelling. Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:14:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: August Jackson http://augustjackson.net/2008/12/02/look-ma-im-blogging-from-my-iphone/#comment-101 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:14:36 +0000 http://augustjackson.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/look-ma-im-blogging-from-my-iphone/#comment-101 I don’t *think* so, and I’m open to being proven wrong on that.

Is your question based on the iPhone somehow being less exclusive since it’s on sale in a “down-market” venue such as Wal-Mart, TJ? I would think that Target is the discounter more in-line with Apple’s core (pardon the unintentional pun) customer segment. I was a bit surprised when I heard that the Wal-Mart deal was real.

I suspect one driver of this deal is the economic downturn. Also Apple might be trying to turn the iPhone and iPod Touch into a new mobile computing platform. If that’s the case they’ll benefit more from the network effect of widely-deployed devices than the will from maintaining a pure “upscale” approach. It also opens up a broader market of people who might see real value from Apple products but don’t consider themselves “Apple people.”

]]> By: Terry Johnson http://augustjackson.net/2008/12/02/look-ma-im-blogging-from-my-iphone/#comment-100 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:50:16 +0000 http://augustjackson.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/look-ma-im-blogging-from-my-iphone/#comment-100 August,
Will the iPhone lose luster now that it is being sold at Wal-Mart?

TJ

]]> By: Arik Johnson http://augustjackson.net/2008/12/02/look-ma-im-blogging-from-my-iphone/#comment-80 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:11:54 +0000 http://augustjackson.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/look-ma-im-blogging-from-my-iphone/#comment-80 Hi August – love the new site – big improvement! I moved my own personal site to WordPress a few months ago though the company has a long term investment in content management on Drupal, which frankly has no equal for open source team blogging (including WP, even+BuddyList) but the skins and themes are sure a lot prettier and easier to work with in WordPress. ;-) All the best – see you at the SCIP chapter meeting Wednesday night in DC… er, Alexandria.

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