After iPhone 5 was launched, slowly but surely investors started to recognize that iPhone 5 did not incorporate any breakthrough innovations like they had come to expect from Apple.
They did bigger things, like putting solar panels on the roof to heat water, as well as smaller things like teaching residents that their iPhone chargers, if left plugged in the wall after the iPhone is charged, continue to consume electricity.
But the iPhone 4S took longer than usual, its October unveiling coming about 16 months after the iPhone 4.
For one thing, he notes that the company did not originally subsidize the phone, although he notes that the company quickly fixed that issue by cutting the price of the original iPhone shortly after release, and then offering iPhone 3G at a subsidized price a year after the first version launched.
Just look at two videos, put on YouTube a few days after the iPhone launch.
The real impact on T-Mobile will become evident after the iPhone 5 launches, possibly in October.
In the interest of corporate success, the company even held a retreat, shortly after the iPhone fallout.
The O2 website crashed soon after the iPhone announcement, apparently gasping under the weight of inquiries from excited customers.
It reminds me of Nokia two years after the iPhone launch, not long before their adoption of Windows.
For nearly two years after the iPhone was launched in 2007, there was no official distributor in China for the iPhone.
Motorola launched its Droid smartphone in 2009, two years after the iPhone.
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The approval came just three days after the iPhone 5 was launched in the U.S. and eight other countries on September 21.
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Shares began falling soon after the iPhone 5 announcement on Sept. 12.
Hours after the iPhone 5 debuted in the U.S. in September, it was being smuggled into China to feed a thriving black market.
In an article I wrote just after the iPhone 5 was released, I commented on how Apple seems to be learning from luxury watches.
After the iPhone 5 launch I had already recommended taking profits.
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Apple's reputation for market-leading innovation took a knock after the iPhone 5 was seen as an iteration of an earlier design rather than a characteristic step-change.
After the iPhone was unveiled a year ago, nothing Apple could do this year could top the hype the company kicked off with the hot-selling gadget.
Apple Inc shares fell 3.9 percent on Friday after the iPhone 5 debuted in China to a cool reception and two analysts cut shipment forecasts.
It is due to this cannibalization of the PC market that we estimate the iPad to be the second most valuable division for Apple, after the iPhone.
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In the first four years after the iPhone was introduced in 2007, Apple had recorded close to a 90% growth rate in iPhone unit sales every year.
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During the meeting Mr Cook said he sympathised with shareholders who found Apple's recent stock-price performance a "disappointment", after the iPhone maker lost around a third of its market value since September's peak.
Soon after the iPhone 5 was released reports began to emerge that some new owners were receiving handsets that were already scratched, while others claimed that the new handset scratched far too easily.
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What did our economy do after the iPhone?
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After sliding your iPhone or Android device into this case, your phone becomes a video game controller.
The other question - will EE be able to offer UK customers a 4G iPhone after tomorrow's Apple launch?
More than 6, 000 New Zealand police officers are getting an iPhone after the nation signed a 10-year outsourcing contract with Vodafone.
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So when I punch in my return destination into my iPhone after catching some waves, Sync tells me I have plenty of electrons to make it home.
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Clearly it was late in coming out with iPhone 4S in October this year, which was 16 months after the launch of iPhone 4 in June last year.
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