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Interesting that they didn’t choose an image with plane flying into a tall building.. huh. Otherwise, agreed with most that wondered aloud here wtf is going on such with a lame post like this from TC..?!?

Traditionally software designers/developers in phone vendors was insignificant, because the vendors considered themself as hardware companies, not software. They focused too much on high-tech and more and more features.

iPod as a late comer of mp3 player market was an extraordinary example.
iPhone kept that Apple tradition. Both iPod and iPhone provided less features than similar products of the same price, and quickly gained market share.

Do those vendors learn lessons?

+ The email capability of Blackberry is proven. Apple is rolling out an update that will improve its capabilities and allow the iPhone to work better with Exchange but we *know* Blackberry works because it has worked for years. That counts for a lot.

+ Getting locked in to one carrier sucks.

+ RIM is focused on the enterprise and their network lets us roll out our applications to all of our Blackberries at once. There is no way my employer is going to set up an iTunes account for our employees so that they can download to their iPhones the applications we want to deploy.

This is just another TC post that is full of uninformed opinion and short on fact.

Arrington has no experience or expertise in IT or this area but tries to pass of his liking of the iPhone for informed opinion.

I think the iPhone is a great phone for a niche consumer market but anybody who actually manages smartphone deployments at a large company knows that the iPhone is far from the Blackberry-killer Arrington thinks it is. As other posters have pointed out RIM seems to be doing just fine and will continue to…

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I am a hardcore geek, I’ve been using gadgets since I was an adolescent and the Iphone is the first cell phone that I figured out without having to read a manual…
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Does not compute…

Not only has Apple whacked as much as $200 from the iPhone price and made it capable of working on a faster wireless network, but the company is also adding a wide range of software features that may make it more appealing to consumers and business users alike

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Gee! Sounds like a hard hitting article! Some intense analysis there. Oh wait no, this thing is written for people like my mom. TechCrunch has pointed to Business Week only a few times this year and there is a reason why, it sucks. You only point to it now because it bolster’s your case. But the thing is as lame as it gets – just gathering a bunch of quotes from people without a shred of actual analysis. It is dentist office fodder. A really pathetic link. There is a better article about this up my ass.

The iphone is great and Apple will sell a lot of phones but, as the link you noted says, they were losing market share at the beginning of this year and no matter how iPhone fans try to explain it away “product shortages!”, “buyers waiting for 3g” (two motivations in opposition – illogic never stopped a fanboi) the fact remains sales haven’t been that great this year. You can tell yourself all the fairy tales you want but lowered demand is why they cut the price and rejiggered the deal. (Why else would apple give up the sweetest manufacturer’s deal there is?)

Now, the price cut is great! I love it. It will open a lot of doors and kick some lackadasical carriers and makers into action BUT if they are already having to cut the price to spark sales (again, make no mistake this is why it is happening, AT&T admitted as much) then I’m not sure the competitor’s position is as dire as the lame graphic depicts.

As mentioned here, the international mobile market is far more sophisticated than the US and it has not shown that it will have the same impact in other locales. Also, the entire smartphone market is growing rapidly and it hasn’t been shown that apple is hurting anybody so much as growing the market.

They’ve sold 4 million units in the US (although there have only been 3M activated). So the US smartphone market is currently 16 million.

The US cell phone market is 265 million.

Nokia is not worried yet.

FAIL

About 15 years ago, my neighbors paid for landline phone service ($25-35/mo), and received free TV broadcasts. Sometime after that, many of them started paying for cable TV ($40/mo or more for premium channels). Later, some began paying $20-25/mo for dial-up Internet service. Over time, they switched from dial-up, which had gone down to $10, to broadband service, and paying $35. In some cases, a router was provided for a monthly fee, but many went out and bought one for $50. At the same time, many added cell phone service, paying about $40/mo for a basic voice plan, while getting a free phone, or at least one costing $100 or less. Many paid much more to get more voice minutes and some SMS text. Some dropped the landline phone, but most did not, still concerned about emergencies.

And you’re telling me that the general population won’t be willing to pay $200 for a phone, and $30/mo extra for data, once they see what they’ll be able to get and do for that $30?

No organization, other than maybe a few start-ups will buy an iPhone for their rank-and-file employees. You think an IT department would want to support another OS along with iTunes on the desktop with its unknown vulnerabilities??? Contrary to the marketing hype, real IT people do not believe that OSX is any more secure than Windows.

Therefore, we can cross out the corporate world, which is where the majority of smart phones are found, at least in the US. The rest of the world may be different, but I venture to say that smart phone market is orders of magnitutde smaller than your regular, non-smart hand-set market. I’ve just moved back from Singapore a couple of months ago, one of the most sophisticated cell phone markets — never seen an iPhone — the vast majority of people used run-of-the-mill candybars or sliders, with a few Nokia N95’s sprinkled in here and there.

When your emperor takes sides with Hitler, it’s time for you to STFU. Be grateful that we only dropped two.