iPhone News: 200,000 app downloads, iPhone is a netbook, AT&T profits hit by iPhone subsidy, House of Reps wants iPhones, 7m iPhones sold in 3Q

Latest iPhone News: Thursday 23 October 2008

200,000 application downloads

Over 200,000 applications have been downloaded from the iTunes App Store, just a month after it hit the 100,000 mark.

iPhone is a netbook

With all sorts of rumours and speculation over Apple releasing a small computer (netbook), Steve Jobs has responded, claiming that the iPod and the iPod Touch devices offer the same functionality as low-cost netbooks.

"We choose to be in certain segments of the market, and we choose not to be in certain segments of the market," Jobs told Wall Street analysts on Tuesday.

Taking a veiled swipe at current netbooks, he continued, "We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that," Jobs said. "But we can continue to deliver greater and greater value to those customers that we choose to serve, and there's a lot of them. And we've seen great success by focusing on certain segments of the market and not trying to be everything to everybody."

(Via ComputerWorld)

AT&T profits hit by iPhone

AT&T has paid Apple around $900m in the third quarter of the year for the 2.4m iPhones sold. It's a figure the company had not anticipated, and is a direct result of the huge popularity of the new phone.

AT&T hopes to make up for this in iPhone-related revenue over each customer's two-year contract.

(Via IHT)

House of Representatives wants iPhones

It doesn't seem to matter who you are or what you do these days -- there's always room for an iPhone.

The latest report is that the House of Representatives are testing iPhones due to demands from staff. Currently, only BlackBerry devices can be used for secure government communications.

(Via iPhone World)

Apple sells nearly seven million iPhones

The latest sales figures suggest that nearly seven million iPhone 3G handsets have been sold in the US in the last quarter, potentially beating sales of RIM's BlackBerry handsets.

From June to August, RIM shipped 6.1m BlackBerries, while from July to September, Apple shipped 6.89m iPhones.

(Via Brighthand)

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