The iPhone inside-out

One of the things I like about the Internet is when new products come out, like the iPhone for instance, you get scores of geeks who disect them to reveal their components. They shoot pictures in every step on the way and then post them with comments to their homepages.

Doing exactly this to the iPhone recently, some curious techies have soon identified all of its device components and also their individual suppliers. With this data known, financial analysts and reporters extrapolated potential for future revenues and profits for all parties involved. These speculative predicitions hit the trading floors (real or virtual) and a stock trading panic emerges. In parallel, supportive reports appear in the Financial Press about additional trivia, like sold-out stores (almost half the Apple Stores in the US at the current moment) and 55% margin predictions for Apple, enough to create some additional frenzy among the members of the investor community... and the greenbucks flow in the hundreds of millions! Like my great friend John Y used to say: Life is good!

Left, the iPhone out of the box and right the iPhone on the operating table. Looks like those geeks had great fun doing this...

And here is a little movie to enjoy the demolition in action.