GLG News by Graphic IC Chip Experts (North America)

iJapan - a country that love gadjets, a country that loves Apple, what has taken Apple so long to launch the iPhone in that country?

Will their be a total revision of the telecom model based on the iPhone economic model? The odds are yes.

The closing of 103 stores nationwide will have an effect on the industry for a short time, maybe 1 or 2 quarters, on major vendors but could have a more lasting effect on smaller suppliers and software houses.

The German ruling gives Apple a major victory for its marketing and revenue sharing formula for the iPhone. Will this translate into other areas and other companies?

Did Apple go too far by iBricking its phones and does the future look like?

New OS's are a plot by the software industry to cause big expensive upgrades down the entire food chain.

Intel's turned its PR apparatus on high today, trumpeting the launch of its first 45nm processors, code-named Penryn. The company can certainly claim credit as the first CPU vendor to ship 45nm products, but the products it launched now are merely warmed over versions of the mature 65nm designs it introduced...

If WiMAX dies what is the long term effect on products such as the iPod and portable computers.

Could it be that the iPhone is not going to capture the Germans? Is it the competition faced in that country by T-Mobile or the promise of new handsets from others? What about the costs of this system - handset and operator package.

The rest of Europe will be looking and in the past they have been looking at the iPod / iTunes interface. They also look at price difference between countries.