May 01, 2007
navicat - great tool for MySQL
Here's a piece of software I've needed forever but just never looked for. I'm a lite MySQL user - we all run a (trimmed down) version of FeedBurner on our laptops here for testing and developing and such, but i've been spoiled by all the scripts we have and I really don't touch MySQL itself very often. But I often do have the need to replicate data from our remote systems to my local db, but had never found an easy way to do it (given that i don't have nor want root access to any of our production data). Today I really needed it for something I was working on, so I did the search and found this tool that worked great....just query off our reporting databases, export, then import.
I tried the OS X version.
Navicat (Product Details) - the Most Popular MySQL Frontend for Windows, Linux & Mac OS X
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January 11, 2007
Get on the iPhone notification list at Cingular
If you want to start receiving information from Cingular on iPhone availability, you can sign up here:
Link to Shop Cingular | Cingular Wireless
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January 09, 2007
iPhone: why Cingular exclusive? here's why
This is all conjecture, but here's my guess on why Apple chose to give Cingular the exclusive on the iPhone:
I'm guessing this is $800-900 device. The way these deals usually get done is the manufacturer has to make a deal with the carrier to sell a minimum X number of phones at a retail price that is palatable to consumers (in this case, $499 or $599 depending on the storage capacity of 4GB or 8GB), in exchange for the exclusive and being able to lock the subscriber up for 1 or 2 years. Cingular agrees to eat a few hundred dollars per device that they hope to make back by locking you into that contract, and for a device like this, enticing you to sign up for a $39.99 all you can eat data plan to go with the phone and whatever voice plan you choose. When they don't meet their minimum X, they are generally sold off to secondary retailers and authorized resellers such as inphonic (wirefly.com) or Amazon.
If you read your Cingular contract carefully, you will see there is a replacement cost for your phone that will generally exceed the price you are paying by quite a bit.
Let's face it, this will be a hot phone, so I'm sure it wasn't a hard deal for Cingular to stomach, even with the steep subsidy cost. Having an exclusive allows Cingular to control their profit or loss on the device. It's good for Apple, because they can get distribution of their device at a retail price that is well below their cost while they work with their manufacturer on finding cheaper components to raise margins for their version 2 device.
Apple's marketing plans clearly called for a device to be sold outside the U.S. (read the 10:48 comment at
engadget that mentions Europe in Q4 07 and Asia in 08) - so that cut out Sprint and Verizon, whose CDMA networks aren't very compatible with any other place except Korea. That leaves T-Mobile and Cingular, who have GSM networks. I'm sure they shopped the deal, but if i were doing this deal, I'd look at the demographics of both networks and probably arrive at the same conclusion.
Link to Apple - iPhone
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July 11, 2005
inside the apple switch [via ars technica]
i like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy. this article in ars technica is totally believable to me having been a part of a few sales and bizdev teams.
it's amazing how often vendors get screwed by their customers. mobile operators are especially good at this. motorola is a vendor in some of the most challenging industries...
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