The iPhone will only be available in Singapore (4.5 million people)
in October and Singatel has already sold 30,000! That would be like
Japan selling 846,000 iPhones; 3 months in advance!
Http://home.singtel.com/iphone
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| Rogers announces iPhone rates in Canada : Rates are bad, but not as bad as we have come to expect from Rogers. |
> https://www.rogers.com/web/Rogers.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=GCT&_nfls=true&setLanguage=fr
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> Plus $6.95 plus frais 911. Disons minimum $69 par mois. Les soirs
> commencent à 21 heures! Mais au moins la boîte vocale est incluse.
>
> Pour ce prix, on a droit à 400mb par mois. Ce qui m'aggace, c'est le
> 50 cent du MB supplémentaire (pour les premiers 60 MB). Entre navig
> uer pour 400mb et 460mb, il n'y a pas une grosse différence, mais c'
> est $30 de plus! Après c'est 3 cent du MB, soit 30$/Giga-octet.
>
> Je doute qu'il y ait pénurie de iPhones au Canada...
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http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_voice_data_packages
I am embarrassed to be Canadian. The only positive is the free Rogers
wifi hotspots. Too bad they are extreemly rare.
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Wow, one posting in an online forum about Rogers pricing, I did say
one, and the Financial Post treats it like fact.
Almost everybody at Rogers has a blog or Facebook page. And if they
don't, they have a spouse who does.
Would Rogers release price plan options to employees 5 weeks in
advance and expect them to stay a secret? No. When pricing is
available, Customer Service Reps will be the last to know, because as
soon as they find out, their customers (and competitors) will to.
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Rogers and Apple, don't spend a penny on marketing, just allow us
iPhone fans to buy the iPhone in advance and let word of mouth do the
rest...
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Potential Apple investors, please take this to heart, I'm getting
tired of responding to margin calls...
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Maybe there IS an inflation problem in the US.
Used iPhones will soon require an $80 batery change AND they were
stuck to a guy's face for a year!
Clearly, the new iPhone will be popular.
(I am heavily invested in Apple)
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Aparently, reducing taxes will allow New Brunswick to become self
sufficient. At present, half of the provincial government's revenu
comes from federal government transfer payments.
Seems to me that prortion would go up if provincial taxes were
reduced. In fact, New Brunswick could be self sufficient tomorow if
the government wanted to. All they would have to do is double taxes.
Doubling provincial taxes might sound crazy, but that would simply
bring taxes in line with those of France and Sweeden, our neighboors
to the East.
Speaking of Neighboors, the government proposes 6 options. I wont bore
you with the details as none are very creative.
But here is what I propose (let's call it option 7):
Alberta has oil, Ontario has gold and Quebec has hydro. As a result
they are stinking rich. What does New Brunswick have? Location.
So I propose massive tolls at New Brunswick borders. Not to be self
sufficient, that would be crazy, just to eliminate provincial sales tax.
But how do you impose tolls on rail freight, a federal jurisdiction?
You can't, but you can raise raillroad property taxes... Dito on
natural gas pipelines...
Since everything is made in China, I wonder why Manitoba never thought
of that.
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And remember, Germany and France only started selling the iPhone in
the Fall. (I forget when the UK started).
They sold out in the USA, UK and Germany!
France, untill today, charged high rates for their iPhone and yet it
sold better than anywhere else!
The iPhone will be huge in Italy, Spain, Canada and Australia now that
they can buy it. There are 150 million people in those countries.
I don't know enough about India and Japan except the huge amount of
people who live there.
Add Brazil, Mexico, Poland, don't forget Poland, and Apple could
easily meet its 2008 target of 10 million iPhones, even if not a
single one is sold in the USA!
I'm not as woried about demand as I am about supply. Hopfully China
doesn't have a labour shortage.
Speaking of demand, they should/could sell the iPhone in advance.
Apple could literally sell their iPhones before they are made.
Where do I sign? Because I don't want to wait untill October... 2009!
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In Euros, the prices are 499€ and 569€.
Belgium has a cool law that prohibits mandatory service contracts when
buying a product.
C$785 may seem like alot, but a two year contract with ATT will cost
you US$919 ($30 x 24 + $199).
So if you don't plan on using the 3G feature, that is a savings of
$134 (there is no duty on iPhones).
Keep in mind the curency fluctuations. By the way, why is the € worth
so much if they don't have a drop of oil?
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Total additional cost of the iPhone on the mandatory three year
contract: $1640.
Let's see, I have access to free wifi downtown Moncton, at work and at
the Hilcrest Mall (and at home). And the 3G network in New Bruswick is
limited to urban Moncton... Hmm.
All this is assuming that Rogers will charge a mandatory $40, one GB
data package (per month) with the iPhone. It is $30 and unlimited in
the USA.
In the US, you can select your own voice package. I assume the same
for Canada.
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That is the hilarious line in the trailor for Love Guru, a Mike Myers
movie.
As a former Quebecker, I can say with confidence that Quebeckers love
ketchup and they love pop tarts, but not together.
However, Quebeckers in the Eastern Towships eat their pizza with
mayonaise. And Kraft Diner with ketchup is a popular home dish (when
they eat out they spring for poutine).
I know people who don't put ketchup on their fries (they prefer
viniger) but do put ketchup on their Kraft Diner.
If their is a Quebec style pizza, it would the "all dressed":
Mozerella, thin peperoni, green pepers and mushrooms.
Do you remember when McDonald's had that pizza trial? That was the
only kind available.
McCains actually sells a Quebec variety with the above mentionned
ingredients, but only sells it in Quebec and northern New Brunswick.
Their Deluxe Pizza should work in theory, peperoni, green pepers and
mushrooms, but somehow fails (wrong type of peperoni and cheese, I
think).
Mikes has the best chain "all dressed" pizza, they even have a frozen
one for sale in Supermarkets in Quebec and Edmundston.
All dressed pizza is the biggest thing I miss about Quebec. Only the
Mikes in Dieppe serves them. The locals in Moncton prefer the fusion
Greek-Lebanese-Turkish-Italian dish called Donair-Pizza.
So now you know.
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Since when is it OK for journalists to accept bribes? Apparently, you
can grease Toronto Sun employees as much as you want. But they prefer
expensive gifts...
I, on the other hand, will not accept gifts.
Is Altavistagoogle more trustworthy than the Toronto Sun? Yes.
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Si vous n'avez pas pas deux heures a donner à Steve Jobs et son iPhone, accordez-lui au moins 60 secondes . Il reste exactement un mois avant l'arrivé du iPhone grâce à Fido.
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The iPhone in 60 seconds
If you don't have two hours to watch the excellent iPhone 2.0 presentation, then I recommend the verry good 60 second summary. Exaclty one month to go and even in Canada you will be able to get one thanks to Rogers.
Two weeks after Bell Canada unveiled its own online video store, Apple Inc.'s iTunes store in Canada has followed suit, adding movies for download to its growing catalogue.
Apple announced Wednesday that more than 1,200 films were available for rent or purchase on its Canadian and U.K. iTunes stores, the first time feature films were made available through the online retailer outside the United States.
Movies are available for purchase at prices ranging from $9.99 for older titles to $19.99 for new releases, while rentals cost between $3.99 to $4.99 and include titles such as Juno, The Bourne Ultimatum and Cloverfield.
Video was added to the iTunes lineup in the U.S. two years ago, but has been slower to come to Canada. Television episodes only became available for download in Canada in December.
In the United States, companies like Apple and Microsoft typically negotiate download deals directly with a television show's producer. In Canada, however, television networks often hold the internet rights to shows, which adds a layer to negotiations.
The delay allowed Bell Canada to beat Apple to the punch and launch its own video service in May.
Each service, however, has staked out different territory because of limitations in how they can be played. Aside from watching them on a computer, iTunes users can view Apple's videos on an iPod or Apple TV, the company's Apple TV set-top box.
Bell Video Store users must install the Bell Video Store media player on their computer, and the service is limited to PC users running Microsoft's Windows operating system or owners of some mobile media players from Archos. The videos won't play on iPods or computers running the Linux operating system.
Microsoft also launched downloadable movie rentals in December over Xbox Live, the online component of its video game console. [I don't think the Microsoft service is available in Canada]
I wanted to share the processes with all of you in the event that you come
accross RHP customers that would like to have their RHP support in French (as
there is currently no RHP French Queue):
1) Attempt to convince the cx to troubleshoot with a RHP rep in English.
2) If the customer insists, email Real-Time and have them reach out to a French speaking RHP rep that can call the customer back within 24 hours (set
the 24 hour callback rule as the expectation for the customer as well).
3) If the customer insists that a French speaking RHP rep must call them immediately, email your TM, who will in turn reach out to a RHP TM, who will have a bilingual RHP rep call the customer ASAP .
