iPhone Boss: iSorry

The price of the iPhone has been dropped jaw-droppingly from $599 to a mere $399 just two months after the iPhones initial release. This no doubt has made the blood boil of the iPhones early customers. So therefore Steve Jobs has apologised in an open letter and has chosen to give people who bought the iPhone from either AT&T or directly from Apple will get a $100 store credit which can be used for any product at Apple in-store or online.

To be honest I really am not complaining because the prices is edging rather quickly. For me if after only two months there has been a 33% price drop then in a years time I can foresee the price coming down as fast as a ball rolling down a hill.

Also another point of view from me is that Jobs sales must have dropped after the initial techno-addicted people who just had to have it; so to attract more people he has had to force his hand instead of seeing a period of low sales.

Nintendo DS winner

Well we all know how Pokemon games just sell like hot cakes; so there is no doubt that they will be served flaming hot with the huge sales of Nintendo DS's. The upsurge of people buying the console from Nintendo and the upsurge from Pokemon fans buying the console to then in turn to buy the Pokemon Diamond game (to name but one) has seen the profit margins for Nintendo increase.

Around the world there is a large culture evolved which is to play Pokemon games; so Nintendo and Pokemon go hand in hand creating a relationship which many dream of having.

iPhone Hacked

The iPhone has finally after a while been hacked or to rephrase it, unlocked. Looking above at the iPhone in pieces, to its bare and naked cogs and coils. Many iPhone users would have an iHeart Attack before seeing their baby pulled apart like so. But like so many modern mobile phones the protection has hardened and the operation on your perfectly healthy and mobile iPhone could leave it paralysed for life. Building upon my previous sentence the operation, as such, takes two hours to be performed by it's creator so for the inexperienced like you and I this is one best left to the consultants.

Google Introduces Voice-Activated Local Search

Google has recently introduced a beta search application for mobile phones. It offers a on the go alternative to using the Google Maps service on laptop or on your computer.

By dialling 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any mobile phone in the United States will enable the mobile phone user to talk in and then get the info they need. If you prefer to have the information at your fingertips in text form, Google also offers users to the option to have the information sent to a mobile phone as an SMS message. Users will be charged normal text message and airtime rates by their mobile carriers if they choose this option.

Apple iPhone to cost £595-£660?

Well with all things said and done the iPhone at the moment looks not just to leave a small hole in your pocket but indeed a crater because the 4GB model will come in at a slice under £600 while the 8GB could be as much as £660 according to some early, pre-order prices on Amazon Germany. This compares to approximately £255 and £306 in the US.

So just like Bill Gates, Steven Jobs has demonstrated that like most successful mega-companies he doesn't know how to do currency conversions correctly. I know that there is some talk of inflation among the Sterling but come on Jobs that's really pushing it. Imagine if Jobs was our Chancellor of the Exchequer; what would his proposal be 20% tax for the super rich like Roman Abramovich and Lakshmi Mittal and only charge a meagre 75% for those on the lowest incomes!

Ok so enough of the small talk check the following facts:

- The iPhone will be 3G when it arrives in Europe but it will not arrive for a year – not the end of 2007 as expected.

- It will be a closed device and will only run software released by Apple.

- It will use Apple’s DRM software FairPlay which, ironically, no one thinks is fair, at all. This will help tie people into bought music from iTunes, unless they opt to play DRM-free MP3s.

- Apple could win the right to use the iPhone name in Europe, thanks to a loophole says Outlaw.com.

“Trade mark specialist Lee Curtis of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM, has found a legal loophole, though, which could strip Cisco of its European rights. He told technology law podcast OUT-LAW Radio that in Europe a person can lodge a revocation application against a trade mark registration if the trade mark has not been used for the past five years.” Read more about that here.

Now obviously many weren't expecting the phone to be the same price as in the US but talk about milking it. If I did currency conversions like this in Maths then God help me.