Really Rocket Science

For all you shorts, via Barron's (subscription):

[W]hat the fanboys won't tell you -- as won't many unabashed boosters in the press -- is that the iPhone's production rollout is behind schedule. That's what a number of tech hedge-fund managers are saying, attributing their information to investigative research outfits that talk with engineers and supply-chain managers at the contract manufacturer and component suppliers in Asia.

These sources say that Apple has slashed its internal expectations for iPhone unit sales by up to 16%. They report that Apple had planned to ship 12 million 3G units by the end of the third quarter, but now expects to ship about 10 million to 10.5 million by the fourth quarter, owing to production delays...[P]eople have been stating that Apple has shipped hundreds of thousands of 3G iPhones, which are supposedly sitting on warehouse shelves. But hedge-fund sources say that Foxconn International Holdings, the contract manufacturer that assembles the devices, has shipped only several thousand...

Foxconn and component makers won't crank up mass production until the middle of this month, although researchers say that they had been pressured by Apple to start doing so a few weeks ago. The reasons for the delays are unclear, but the most logical presumption is that Apple was too optimistic about how fast supplier Infineon Technologies (IFX) would introduce a new chipset for the phone. Infineon reduced its forecast for shipments this year, and analysts suspect that it's Apple-related.

We blogged it in January of 2006, now its here. Apple's Mobile Me.  Wired reports Montenegro is in good position with its .me country code:

Apple has bought a slew of .me domains, the soon-to-be-launched domain suffix for Montenegro that's scheduled to go live on July 17th. Macworld UK spoke to Predrag Lesic, in charge of the Montenegro’s .me registry, and he thinks the domain will be an international hit:

We think .me can offer a new business around domain names with verbs,” Lesic says, such as drive.me or fly.me

You can imagine what the others might be.