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iPhone sales compared to HD radio sales pitch

dbdigital said:
But the iPhone has definitely caught Verizon and Sprint with their pants down, Sprint especially judging from the comments from one of their spokespersons.

db
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True, but Sprint has Mobile Pandora "personalized" music service (obvioulsy not the same hype), unless the Internet royalty fees put an end to the relationship. I am amaized, at how quickly all of this has unraveled, while HD Radio is still in the starting-gates ! :D
 
I notice those articles skirt the issue of how you won't even be able to use your new "phone" on the way home from the AT&T store, because you must have

1)-a computer (PC or Mac...Linux users, you're screwed)

and

2)-the latest version of Itunes (7.3 I think...I'm NOT an Itunes user).

Then you must sync your freakin' telephone WITH ITUNES in order to make a damn phone call. NOBODY over 40 (most of the population these days) will bother.
 
HD 'at the starting gates'? Iphone sales to date: ZERO. NOT A ONE! They haven't even started selling the damn things.

HD is in every large, and now in most medium markets, and radios are available from many vendors and manufacturers. Radio isn't "shiny and new". It's VERY OLD technology. Irrelevant, one might say. Except for the fact that THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE LISTEN TO AM AND FM RADIO. Well, there's that!

A phone vs. RADIO. Now there's a competition that exists solely in "lint's" mind!
 
Mike Walker said:
HD 'at the starting gates'? Iphone sales to date: ZERO. NOT A ONE! They haven't even started selling the damn things.

HD is in every large, and now in most medium markets, and radios are available from many vendors and manufacturers. Radio isn't "shiny and new". It's VERY OLD technology. Irrelevant, one might say. Except for the fact that THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE LISTEN TO AM AND FM RADIO. Well, there's that!

A phone vs. RADIO. Now there's a competition that exists solely in "lint's" mind!
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TSL is down significantly, radio growth has stalled the past six years, and radio has no future with Gen Y, being lost to iPods, cell phones, gaming-systems, the Internet, etc.
 
Since the heading reads "iPhone sales compared to HD radio sales". (Let's leave the "pitch" part out for now).
Comparing iPhone projected sales over the next year and a half with stated HD radio sales over the past year, it seems HD radio will take over 200 years just to catch up to the iPhone's first year and a half projected sales.
It's reasonable that HD radio will be long dead before it reaches equal popularity to the iPhone alone, not even considering all the other competitors.
 
"Stalled" in first place beats the freakin' hell out of "growing" in 90th! Once nearly EVERYONE listens (as they do to terrestrial radio), growth becomes problematic ;)


How devoted are terrestrial listeners? Millions of them are willing to PAY to listen, when they don't have to. It's called public radio. Imagine XM or Sirius tomorrow said "you no longer have to pay if you don't want to...just let your conscience be your guide." I doubt either service would exist in a couple of months.
 
SUPERCASTER said:
Since the heading reads "iPhone sales compared to HD radio sales". (Let's leave the "pitch" part out for now).
Comparing iPhone projected sales over the next year and a half with stated HD radio sales over the past year, it seems HD radio will take over 200 years just to catch up to the iPhone's first year and a half projected sales.
It's reasonable that HD radio will be long dead before it reaches equal popularity to the iPhone alone, not even considering all the other competitors.
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This could very well be true. Industry analysts predict the following:

Charles Wolf, an independent analyst at Wolf Insights, expects prices to fall within two years. By 2015, he forecasts sales of 100 million iPhones a year.

Piper Jaffrey projects 15.6 million iPhones by 2008 and 45 million by 2009.

By contrast, how is HD-Radio stacking up? Are CE analysts just as optimistic about HD-R?

db
 
Mike Walker said:
I notice those articles skirt the issue of how you won't even be able to use your new "phone" on the way home from the AT&T store, because you must have

1)-a computer (PC or Mac...Linux users, you're screwed)

and

2)-the latest version of Itunes (7.3 I think...I'm NOT an Itunes user).

Then you must sync your freakin' telephone WITH ITUNES in order to make a damn phone call. NOBODY over 40 (most of the population these days) will bother.
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And that would be WRONG. You CAN use iTunes to activate an iPhone, but YOU DON'T HAVE TO. You can get it activated in an Apple or AT&T Wireless store, just like most cell phone users do.

I also seem to recall that you're one of the people on this board who keeps saying (correctly) that most people still use radio. Well, most people use PCs or Macs too. Linux users aren't even on the radar yet as a critical mass of computer users. iTunes is a free download, and can be downloaded along with QuickTime if you want. If someone wants to activate an iPhone that way, it's not the life-or-death struggle that you make it out to be.

You get all ticked off when people hype HD Radio's shortcomings...and then you turn around and do the exact same thing with the iPhone.
 
As a side point in the CGC newsletter #798 some guy was complaining about his $75.00 Radiosophy HD Radio and then the editor of the newsletter added this:

"HD Radio has taken off in rural Fallbrook (CA). The local Radio Shack store reports selling one HD radio since December. -Ed."

http://www.bext.com/_CGC/2007/cgc798.htm

Alright, way to go Fallbrook! Woo Hoo!

db
 
Mike Walker said:
"Stalled" in first place beats the freakin' hell out of "growing" in 90th! Once nearly EVERYONE listens (as they do to terrestrial radio), growth becomes problematic ;)


How devoted are terrestrial listeners? Millions of them are willing to PAY to listen, when they don't have to. It's called public radio. Imagine XM or Sirius tomorrow said "you no longer have to pay if you don't want to...just let your conscience be your guide." I doubt either service would exist in a couple of months.
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HD radio is not in "first place" nor probably not even in 90th as far as listening choices. Check the sales and listenership figures.
You are mixing topics and changing the subject again.
Your constant attempts at deception are boring.
 
radiopilot said:
Over 500,000 iPhones have been sold since Friday's opening sales of these units! :eek:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070702/bs_nm/apple_iphone_dc_2;_ylt=Aq.AqQhILIpQHbeBoYR_Pw4h2.cA

Now if HD radios sold as well as this anticipated tech/geek toy and was as popular, then maybe HD radio would have a standing chance, but consumers voted with their pockets what they really want... and HD radio... it isn't! ;)

Radiopilot
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It will be years, if ever, before 500,000 HD radios are sold - HD Radio is such a loser ! :D
 
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