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It was widely reported today that Apple will begin selling iPhones in Russia through agreements with at least two of the country's top three carriers.

Apple might be better off settling for its current black market sales figures, which one report has at about 20,000 units a month.

Because Apple could easily end like BP, which is seeing its multi-billion dollar oil venture with Russia's TNK go straight into the tank thanks to a Putin-led government masquerading as friendly to Western corporations and amenable to free-market capitalism.

It is not. So shipping phones COD and demanding cash...

By most people’s measure, it was quite a quarter for Apple, but apparently not for the geniuses on Wall Street.

While Apple sold almost a million iPhones in the first week (think about that for a second) and had what BusinessWeek called a “blowout quarter,” an off-handed remark by Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer sent stock prices tumbling yesterday.

The reason for the panic was an announcement that margins could be slightly lower next quarter due to a future product transition that Oppenheimer couldn’t talk about in the quarterly earnings conference call.

If recent history is any...

My colleague Ron Miller makes some excellent points about the iPhone shortage in the US in his blog entry.

If this were any other company we would indeed be taking them to task. Hang on though, let's think a minute: everyone's talking about a hardware shortage, the iPhones aren't in stock yet so it's a bad thing, yes?

Well, yes, but that's only part of the story. A hardware shortage can be rectified over time. In the longer term a few people hanging around waiting for their phones a couple of days is an inconvenience, nothing more.

For me what was much more interesting was the MobileMe...

Apple has taken another big step to making its video-friendly iPhone a true mass-market product by lowering its base-model price to $199, a 50% drop from the current $399 price for a unit with 8 gigabytes (GB) of storage.

The new iPhone 3G will also support high-speed 3G networking technology that will make broadband access twice as fast compared to first-generation iPhones that run on AT&T's slower Edge data network.

It’s good to be king and have your own way Get a feeling of peace at the end of the day ~Tom Petty, It’s Good to be King.

It’s often been said that marijuana is the gateway drug, but an article in this week’s BusinessWeek, The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit, suggests that perhaps the iPod is a gateway gadget to more expensive hardware.

That’s right, employees who love their iPods (and iPhones) are beginning to demand Mac hardware at work. Imagine that.

I keep having this image of Steve Jobs sitting on the steps of a large corporation in a trench coat. As an employee approaches, he...