More iPhone Blood Letting...

Segan: Steve Jobs Must Hate the Cell-Phone Industry

FOXNews.com - Segan: Steve Jobs Must Hate the Cell-Phone Industry - Technology News | News On Technology 

Interesting article following on from the item yesterday.  I'll have to admit a degree of schadenfreude about this as it was one of the more likely outcomes of the way they entered the phone market.

I'm also pretty sure I said somewhere that this would almost certainly make a hell of a PDA and people would queue up to buy it. 

I suspect that Steve Jobs and his merry band are frustrated at the cellphone industry and, in particuarly the European Operators knowing their business better than he does and they're probably demanding that he improve the things that make them money (SMS, MMS, Java, Ringtones) before they let him anywhere near their networks.  The lack of a firm European launch Operator when we're only 45 days or so from the date given for the launch is also telling.

Part of the problem will be that no European OpCo exists in the realm where they can officiall lock a phone to them for 2 years, so they won't have as much interest in the revenue share deal that Apple is rumoured to have done with AT&T in the US.

Another interesting snip, apparently Apple are offering $100 credit to people who were stung for the full price in July and August.  I wonder what the CEO offering to give away $30M will do to market confidence?

And Speaking of Schadenfreude...

Boeing/aerospace | No room for error as new setback hits 787 | Seattle Times Newspaper

Ok, so I admit I like being right about things.  Who doesn't?

I was discussing this with someone at the weekend and they remarked that Boeing were doing awfully well at the moment and I'd said they were in a mess a few years ago.  They were in a huge mess prior to the 787 and they've still got a lot of work to do to avoid the kind of publicity that Airbus have had over the last year.

I've suspected for a long time that the 787 would be delayed somewhat, mostly because one of the engineers on the program told me that it would be while we were flying back to London from Seattle once.

This is a pretty radically new type of aircraft for Boeing (and the industry) and this sort of delay was likely before they even get to the flight testing.  The interesting question will be if any "nasties" turn up during the flight test phase.  This is the first completely composite airframe and that's going to be interesting to see.