Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Apple building cheaper iPhone
Asian suppliers to Apple have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of the iPhone 4, probably to help Apple boost sales in emerging markets. "Apple may want to push into the emerging market segment where customers want to switch to low- to mid-end smart phones from high-end feature phones, which usually cost $150-200," said Yuanta Securities analyst Bonnie Chang.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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