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Several retailer in the U.S. reduced the price of makbuki.  Naturally, this is possible only with the consent of Apple: price dropped from $ 1100 to … $ 800 - at $ 300, just unbelievable! History reminds the situation with the iPhone, when in September 2007, the retail price of the 8 GB model has plummeted from 600 to 400 dollars.

Changing riteylerovskoy policy could serve as a signal to expand the price range makbukov before launching a new model, which is expected on 14 October.

After the launch of Apple’s iPhone 3G in 21 countries around the world, the company has decided to launch the product in 20 more countries on August 22. Since its release, the product has been doing very good, but at times it has faced some problems specially in the US regarding the system activation.

Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, Romania and Uruguay will be handled by ‘America Movil’. ‘Telefonica’ will be looking after some of them.

Latvia and Lithuania will get their hand on the product with the help of ‘TeliaSonera’. Globe Telecom and O2 will deliver the product in Philippines and the Czech Republic respectively.

T-Mobile and Orange will look after Slovakia. The prior will be looking after Hungary alone where as the later along with Era will take care of Poland.

TeliaSonera and EMT will be looking after Estonia. India will be handled by Vodafone and Bharti Airtel.

India is considered to be one of the big markets and will probably do business better than others. Its population is over 1 billion. Both the companies which will be looking after iPhone 3G’s distribution in India, contains a combined number of 118 million subscribers.

Over the next several months, Apple will be expanding its product in more than 70 countries.

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As of 12:30 AM Eastern time today, all 190 Apple stores in the United States showed iPhone 3G’s in stock. So if you’ve been waiting to buy your 3G, now is the time. However, just because all Apple stores refilled their inventory, don’t think the same regarding AT&T. AT&T stores are still keeping their shelves pretty scarce while trying to fill the massive amounts of iPhone 3G back orders.

So if you’ve had the “I want an iPhone 3G but I don’t wanna stand in line or wait for weeks” mentality, then this is your moment.

Steve Jobs, presumably speaking from a hyperbaric chamber where he’s being nourished with an infusion of liquified developers-souls before his next public appearance, had a few interesting tidbits about the AppStore for the Wall Street Journal this morning. Namely, users have downloaded some 60 million programs for the iPhone representing sales of about $30 million since the launch last month — a 30/70 revenue split between Apple and developers, respectively. “The thing’s going to crest a half billion soon,” Jobs added, “I’ve never seen anything like this in my career for software.” He went on to say that phone differentiation is no longer about radios and antennas (or uh, battery life) but about software. Steve also confirmed the controversial iPhone application kill switch in the event that Apple inadvertently approves a malicious program for distribution. Jobs said, “hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull.” As to the $999.99 I Am Rich application, the dubious download that displayed nothing but a glowing red gem, pulling that from the store was a “judgment” call. Sure, but that doesn’t explain how it made it through the vetting process to begin with.

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It’s supposed to be your “life in your pocket,” not Apple’s. But a piece of code discovered in the iPhone operating system might keep you under Apple’s control.

Jonathan Zdrianski, author of the book iPhone Open Application Development, discovered a URL hidden in iPhone’s CoreLocation that he believes the iPhone uses to check whether any apps on your phone match with those listed in a database of blacklisted applications. Presumably, that would allow Apple to remotely de-authorize those apps, or perhaps even delete them.

“This suggests that the iPhone calls home once in a while to find out what applications it should turn off,” Zdrianski wrote. “At the moment, no apps have been blacklisted, but by all appearances, this has been added to disable applications that the user has already downloaded and paid for, if Apple so chooses to shut it down.”

Hum. So then all of those who got away with NetShare before it disappeared from the App Store aren’t so safe/lucky after all. (more…)

Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster is estimating Apple sold half a million AT&T iPhones from 6 p.m. Friday through the close of business on Sunday. With the devices going for $500 to $600, that’s around $250 to $300 million in cash changing hands, depending on the mix of 4GB and 8GB units sold.With margins on the device in the <20-50%> range (probably closer to the lower end), that leaves an estimated $50 to $150 million in profit.
Not a bad weekend for Apple.