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...Basically, he's betting that, at $199 a pop, he'll sell so many iPhones that Apple will dominate the rapidly developing mobile Internet platform. Indeed, he believes that this new phone is so compelling - and so within the reach of the masses - that it's worth revisiting the deal he struck with AT&T for the 1.0 version, which reportedly gave Apple up to $12 to $18 per month on every iPhone that AT&T serviced. Instead, AT&T and other international carriers will now be providing a subsidy-supposedly about $200 a phone - to make the device affordable...
...Aside from making money on each phone sold, Apple will also make money in other ways. While many applications, "if not most," as Apple's marketing boss Phil Schiller told me, will be free to consumers, others won't. Apple will take 30 cents out of every dollar developers make selling their wares at Apple's App Store. Likewise, the more people who buy iPhones, the more folks who will pay to download music and video-despite its power-hungry, high-speed performance, the 3G phone will allegedly give seven hours of video playback and 24 hours of good...
Users of iPhone 1.0 will be able to download new software via the iPhone App Store, which will launch with the new phone. But those pioneers won't get the faster speeds or true global positioning due to hardware reasons. The older phone triangulates a user's position via cell-phone towers. The new one has a GPS receiver that can track a user in real time. Jobs showed off the GPS capabilities with a recording that showed a 3G user driving down San Francisco's winding Lombard Street. As a tiny dot appeared on a Google map and slowly...
...weeks and months. Sega, for instance, demoed an arcade game, Super Monkey Ball, whose fluid 3-D quality was on par with what one would find on, say, a Sony PSP. On the iPhone, users navigate by tilting the motion-sensitive device. Another application, which takes advantage of the phone's GPS, is a location-aware social network; fire up the app and you can see whether any friends or people in your contact list are nearby. "We make serendipity happen," said Loopt founder Sam Altman. For the first time, one could be walking down a street in New York...
...Burgos' family began to worry immediately when he didn't show up for a family event that evening. His mother, Edita, tried dialing his mobile phone, but when he answered, he seemed groggy, as though he'd been drugged. When she called again later, his phone had been turned off. Two days later, Edita Burgos called a hasty press conference to ask for help finding her son. Tips began to trickle in. One tipster, who claimed to be a former army intelligence officer, said that Jonas Burgos had been snatched by the Philippine military. "I had no sleep," Edita Burgos...