and yet I still prefer a windows mobile phone. There isnt an iphone or blackberry out there that can do everything they do. Hopefully a new interface will come out fairly soon though, its definitely holding them back.

I respectfully disagree with Canalys’ assessment. Theirs is a turn of the century perspective. Rampant line extension is exactly what has made the smartphone market so impotent. Apple would do best to stick with one model of iPhone. You can’t be all things to all people. If a consumer doesn’t find what they need in the iPhone, they will go elsewhere – but Apple should not to cater to every whim of the consumer. If they did so, they would end up with hundreds of iPhone models. Do something bold, and stick to it.

Hasn’t it be second since MacWorld? Why the title “now”

I also have to respectfully disagree with the assessment. The difference between the iPhone and most, if not all, of the smartphones out there is Apple’s commitment to the OS. Much like it’s own desktop OS, they’ll always be bringing new features and improvements to it. I don’t believe any of these new iPhone inspired devices will have a dedicated team to improving the OS itself over time for a device 1+ years old. This is mostly because they’re created by the carrier/oem who mostly wants to sell more units. (Ok, so does Apple but they have bigger streams to look to like iTunes) Release a good SDK and the “can do everything” WinMo advantage will probably disappear.

@brady, I agree with you

Hi,

Not so hard to achieve when your concentrating on only one product and have all the free hype in the world -The LG prada was available for about a year before the iPhone, and who at techcrunch cared about it?

As for the effort put in by manufacturers to support products, have you used a nokia phone, I know things are pretty abysmal in the U.s., but everywhere else the world has moved beyond the black model-t.
You can go into a networks shop and get the latest upgrade, let alone all the beta’s available on nokia’s download site.

I’d suggest that apple continue to plow it’s own furrow and to continuously improve the product, however, once a 3g model is available, has 20gb of storage, better battery usage, after all the fan-boys and expensed executives have bought it -Where will it go then, There’s a reason why Nokia is No.1 in all phones (and in the choice of open or propriatary, who wins).

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

I think this actually shows how small the smartphone market is. If Apple can be number 3 in the world selling less than 10 million phones, this just isn’t that big a market.

Legally it’s not available in Canada, but I see one almost EVERY DAY in Vancouver - people are willing to take the risk and not have support, just to have the coolest phone in the land.

Those figures are impressive considering that so far the iPhone has been available only through AT&T network.

And they give the market a hint of the future where Apple’s domination on the smartphones market is inevitable, if no company succeeded in delivering a product as innovative and unique as the iPhone, which will prove to be a miraculous feat.

For some reason I find that I don’t agree with Canalys. I think the assessment that many models are required may be true in the case of other manufacturers, but apple has a different status and a different customer demographic to other phone companies. They do a lot of things other than phones, and have independent brand status, credibility and a very loyal customer base.
So I wouldn’t be surprised if they overturn this theory. With 28% US of the market share you might say that they have already.
3rd place globally with limited availabilty? The iphone is a giant killer, you better believe it. Apple has huge brand power, I know who I’m betting on.

Not to ask a dumb question, but what is a smartphone? Is it price? Features? A Big Screen? Or is it just a category assigned by the manufacturer?

I respectfully disagree with Canalys’ assessment. Theirs is a turn of the century perspective.

I totally disagree with the analysts. I just ordered my iPhone too (I was waiting for the 8G model to drop to about $400 and it did).

6 Months of the release of the iPhone, this is what we have:

Motorola is toast.
Palm is toast.
RIM is next (who the hell will write apps for the Blackberry?)
Nokia bought Trolltech to make app development easier.
Google is working on Android.

The iPhone SDK is coming out soon. Nokia, Apple and Google “get it”, Mr Canaly doesn’t. That’s why he’s an “analyst”. Those who can’t build, ….

I still love the Treo series, but palm needs a serious overhaul of their OS. I’m waiting for android or a new revision of the Iphone before jumping in.

I would like to DISrespectfully disagree with Canalys. Advising a ‘broad, continuously fresh portfolio’ is probably the dumbest thing I’ve heard since McKinsey said that the world market for cellular phones would be capped at 40,000.

In Ballmer’s words:

“I want to have products that appeal to everybody. Now we’ll get a chance to go through this again in phones and music players. There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”

Respectfully and whole heartedly disagree with “TheCouch”

“Much like it’s own desktop OS, they’ll always be bringing new features and improvements to it. ” Not really, most of the time they are playing catch up with functionality when trying to distract with nice GUI’s (shiny things).

And again with the iphone, it’s the same story. They are scurrying to catch up with functionality and have had huge complainst because of it. They are trying to again distract by heaps of advertising showin how “pretty” it is. Meanwhile blackberry and MS mobile give heaps of functionality but are catching up ( in a hurry) with the GUI’s.

The iPhone is a piece of shit for dumbass Mactards and fashino lemmings.