Counting you APPLEs before they launch

Something to get all the mobile freaks in the world salivating :

" Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.'s chief executive and consummate salesman, has succeeded in building expectations for what some have called "the God machine." The bar-of-soap-size iPhone, which will be available June 29, is being coveted as a talisman for a digital age, and hysteria is beginning to reach levels usually reserved for video-game machines at Christmas.While entire industries have been struggling for more than half a decade to find the right combination of features to merge cell phones and computers, Apple appears to have stepped in at precisely the right moment."It will change the whole category of what people think a phone is," said Richard Doherty, president of the Envisioneering Group, an industry consulting firm. "


Watch the official advertisements from the Apple site here :
http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/

Here are some links on the i-phone :

http://applephones.blogspot.com/2007/05/iphone-in-india-would-you-buy-it.html

http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/iphone-india-edition-hidden-features/

And one on why i-phone is not the next i-pod : (Hey all sorts of opinions permitted on the blog !!!)

http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2007/05/apple-iphone-not-next-ipod.html?partner=rss


Also if you want to learn about the amazing APPLE story , here are a few links :

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/16036/Apples-Worst-Business-Decisions/page1/

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/04/26/BU500_07.DTL

http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2001/01/29/story7.html

http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/02/technology/apple/

http://www.thestalwart.com/the_stalwart/2006/01/the_stunning_ap.html

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/09/20/21pogue-email/