It’s been several hours now since the Apple event and a little time to scour the web for info and news. Now that things have sunk in there really was pretty big news announced although in my mind Apple really blew it in the way they decided to roll out this “next generation” iPhone. In all honesty, there’s a ton of new functionality but it seems it was all over shadowed by the naming of the device with a 4S rather than a 5. Realistically had Apple simply called the darned device the iPhone 5 people would likely be raving about it rather than stating how disappointed they are. When you look at the grand scheme of things the 4S runs on iOS 5, is much faster, has way better battery life, has a much better (and faster) camera – these are all pretty important leaps forward. I also think that Apple blew it a bit by making the event a small, cozy, “special people” only invited event that wasn’t live streamed. The attempt to “WOW” us with new functionality like a friend finder app and postcard creation service also really detracted from the real story as well. Overall though, iPhone 4S is a big step forward – the new price point may help encourage more upgrades than may have been lost by the gaffs mentioned.
And so, here’s a few more numbers of interest that I’ve picked up on from today’s event:
- Pre-orders on October 7th and iPhone now on Sprint
- iPhone 4 will now be available in Black and white for just $99. The phone 3GS in 8GB free
- iPhone 4S Black and white, 16GB for $199, 32GB for $299, and 64GB for $399
- 1080p, real-time video image stabilization
- Faster camera – Other phones take 2-3x longer to shoot photos
- CMOS backside illuminated sensor — gets 73% more light than the iPhone 4 sensor
- Data can now download up to 2x as fast to almost 14.4Mbps down
- Increased to 8 hours talk time
- Dual-core CPU, 2x as fast at CPU tasks Up to 7x faster in the previous iPhone
- iPod touch with iOS 5 and iCloud comes in black and new white version $199
- iPod nano is 8GB for $129, and 16GB for $149
- 200 new user features in iOS 5
- Apple phot card cost – $2.99 in the US, $4.99 anywhere else
- Apple has paid developers more than $3b
- 500k apps in the app store
- 92% of Fortune 500 are testing or deploying iPad
- Pilots are replacing 40 pound flight bags with iPads
- over 16b song downloads
- it took Sony 30 years to sell 230k Walkman cassette players
- Every single quarter for 5 years the Mac has outgrown the PC market
- It took Windows 7 20 weeks to reach what it took Lion 2 weeks to get to in terms of install base
