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Lost Opportunity | How Apple got its strategy wrong
It wasn’t just the pricing that did iPhone in. Apple got everything--starting with marketing communication to the sales and distribution model--wrong, say analysts
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Report: Apple struggling with iPhone in India
textually.org — ... That's the conclusion of a long story published by LiveMint.com analyzing the first few months of Apple's foray into India with the iPhone 3G. Analysts estimate that just 11,000 iPhones have been sold in India since Apple launched in that country in September, which is probably equivalent to a week's worth of sales at the downtown San Francisco Apple store. ...

Will Qik Be The Next Twitter?
Technology - Channel Feed — ... a line and three dots in a co-ordinated manner was pretty awesome: While I am very glad the boffins behind Qik are expanding beyond the iPhone to other wireless phones that support 3G, its obvious that a big stumbling block with uptake of the service is the necessary wireless plans that accompany it.  You need a 3G plan.  You also need a phone.  And even though the iPhone (for example) has had great penetration in the US and Canada, it hasn’t all over the world (India particularly) for a variety of reasons, you also need to jailbreak it, which is ...

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