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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer continued his anti-Apple press campaign in a recent interview published by USA Today. Ballmer said that there is “no chance” the iPhone will gain traction.

Source: iLounge

Much is made of the open- versus closed-ecosystem models of the PC and Mac worlds, with Apple’s obsessive helming of their hardware oft credited for their success in usability, reliability and that overall sense of “specialness” that keeps the zealots so contented and the Microsoft-faithful ever on the defencive.  Yet behind that homogenised corporate achievement are a number of individual success stories: those of processor, chipset and graphics manufacturers, to mention just a few.  Apple’s achievements in interface and design are founded upon carefully selected hardware partnerships and, in a world where key products in their catalogue are credited not only with topping the sales charts but of revolutionising whole market segments, there’s little doubt that being included on their circuit board can be a faststream to profit.

Seeking Alpha’s Sramana Mitra dips a toe or two into the murky waters of Apple’s mysterious hardware suppliers, secure in the knowledge that if only one thing is known to be true then that’s that “someone must be making a killing off this on the chip side.”  It’s a safe assumption, and Mitra herself is leaning toward graphics maestros Nvidia being next in line for some vicarious light from the Cupertino halo.

Previous reports in the EE Times - which quoted industry analysts FBR staking their professional reputation on Nvidia subsidiary PortalPlayer gaining lucrative iPhone CPU+GPU chip contracts - suggested that the established relationship between Apple and PortalPlayer would see the development of all-in-one chipsets handling applications, audio and video processing.  Mitra believes this could be a further foray into coming competition with Microsoft’s growing focus on home-entertainment, currently centred on the Xbox 360 and its role as a media streamer.

Interesting as market prediction might be, for the prospective iPhone user the key implication is the eventual success of the device in those central areas of usability, entertainment and longevity.  The gradual evolution of the iPod has show Apple’s willingness to invest long-term strategy in refining a product, unveiling a raft of incremental advances that maintain their lead above competing products.  Yet to compare the DAP market with the far faster-paced cellphone market - and, more importantly, to presume that excellence in one makes success in the other an inevitability - is a dangerous naivety that Apple would do well to avoid. 

Users are less forgiving of a sluggish, under-powered and slightly incapable cellphone than perhaps any other item of personal electronics.  Whether Apple is using the iPhone as a potential test-bed or viewing it as a relatively straightforward adjunct to the iPod line, they would do well to remember that any drawback or failing, no matter how minor, will be greatly magnified.

Apple’s iPhone and the Future of Nvidia [Seeking Alpha]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was recently interviewed by David Lieberman of USA today where they discussed many different topics, including the iPhone.

It’s interesting how the CEO of Microsoft loves to manipulate numbers and facts. When asked if he would want his customers to get as passionate about MS products as people do about the iPod and iPhone he spouts this off: “It’s sort of a funny question. Would I trade 96% of the market for 4% of the market? (Laughter.) I want to have products that appeal to everybody.”

That seems like a reasonable argument right? Were he talking about PC marketshare maybe, but I’m pretty sure that their Zune doesn’t grab 96% of the market. Something tells me that if the Zune were trouncing the iPod that badly we would have heard about it.

When specifically talking about the iPhone he states that “there’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance” and “I’d prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.”

There he goes spouting off more numbers, only now I don’t know where he’s getting them from. Last time I checked Microsoft didn’t have 60-80% of the market share in the phone world. But it’s good to see that he’s optimistic about the success of the iPhone. Steve Jobs was only aiming at 1% of the market, but Ballmer thinks that he can snag 2-3%. If Steve Ballmer thinks they can do it, then it must be so.

Microsoft’s Ballmer: ‘No chance Apple iPhone is going to get any significant market share’ [via macdailynews]

Speculative article about the arrival of a 3G iPhone in Europe.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: apple iphone 3g europe ipod

Unfortunately we here at MyiPhone haven’t yet had the pleasure to hold an iPhone in our hands, but one of our friends over at Gizmodo has.

According to Brian Lam, who has held the iPhone, it is not slippery at all. No more so than an iPod. Suffice it to say that it is no more slippery than a Wii controller.

Credit: Penny Arcade

I guess it is a matter of opinion as to how slippery it is. Or rather what you’ve done before holding it, and what exactly you’re doing with the phone.

Rumor Smashed: iPhone NOT slippery [via gizmodo]

What would you do if you had an iPhone in you possession at this very moment? I know what I would do, I would snap a picture of some guy eating toast and upload it to my Flickr account.

Ok, that’s not what I’d do, but apparently there is someone out that that decided to do just that. Unfortunately the images have since been removed from the account, but the account belongs to an individual that is a Program Manager at Apple, and works with the iPhone.

If the pictures are to be believed as authentic, it looks like the iPhone will have a decent camera. Sure, there are better ones out there, but the toast picture looks pretty good to me. We don’t have the full-size version of the second image, but it doesn’t look nearly as sharp as the other. For your enjoyment, here is the EXIF info from one of the pictures:

* Camera Make = Apple
* Camera Model = iPhone
* Picture Orientation = rotated 90° (6)
* Lens F-Number/F-Stop = 14/5 = F2.80
* Color Space = sRGB (1)
* Image Width = 1600
* Image Height = 1200
* Unknown tag: Tagnum = 0xa500 ===> data = 11/5
* Compression = JPEG compression (6)

First Photos from Apple iPhone? [via macrumors]

Gus had some great thoughts to share on the Leopard delay, whether to develop software for one specific OS, words of wisdom from a Nintendo game developer and how Apple's past behavior can hint at the possibility of the iPhone opening up up to 3rd parties sometime in the future.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: software Apple interviews Leopard iPhone