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07/07/09
As far as we're concerned Nokia has already ceased to exist. Your pretty pictures are just the coroner's report.
07/16/09
As if.
Someone telling me that the iPhone is going to completely dominate the future of smartphones, is someone who does not understand the mobile market at all.
At best, iPhone is just a flash in the pan product, much like Moto's RAZR a few years back. And last I checked to date, iPhone has yet to outsell RAZR, not saying that it won't but just making my point.
iPhone is simply just one product, by itself very much like the RAZR. If Apple were not so greedy and arrogant, and would open iPhone OS up as a format and allow other phone manufacturers to produce their own iPhones, that is a move that would likely guarantee iPhone dominance in the manner this analyst predicts. But then Apple and their exclusive partners, would not be able to control the iPhone marketplace any longer either. AT&T may like the idea, as it would mean more types of iPhones in their store, but 30 years of Apple history says that Apple is never going to budge on that.
Meanwhile, you have OSes like Palm's webOS and Android which are going into a wide variety of devices, carried by every mobile carrier on the planet. Android alone will be in over 20 devices globally by year's end. If each of those devices were to sell just a measly 1 million units each (which is highly likely in today's market), the Android smartphone marketshare would already equal Apples. And at the rate of Android global adoption by device manufacturers and carriers, averaging a million sells per device, place the Android marketshare double iPhone's marketshare by the end of 2010.
Same goes for webOS, which is just new on the market, but already smartphone makers are chomping at the bit, to get webOS into their devices, and carriers likewise to get Pre-like devices on their store shelves. Do not be surprised come Pre's first year anniversary, to see between 20 and 30 webOS devices on the market. Any of them could easily move a million units each.
Meanwhile, the likes of Microsoft, RIM and Nokia are not going to sit still for much longer before releasing their own next-generation smartphone platforms. I'll be highly surprised if another year goes by, and we do not have said devices in hand, marveling over the new innovations they have brought to the party.
I don't even know why anyone listens to analyst anyway. Some douche blindly saying that one phone is going to dominate the entire marketplace, is bullshit. The iPhone for the next several years may (and likely will) remain the most popular single mobile device on the market. But by itself, it hardly has the ability to conquer dominant marketshare over all other smartphone platforms once those platforms catch on and begin to proliferate. If that were the case, then the iMac should have completely dominated the desktop computer market a decade ago. It did not happen then, because it was simply one company making one device vs. an entire industry of companies making a myriad of uniform devices. And it will not happen now, for the exact same reasons.
I love the iPhone, just as much as I love the RAZR a few years back, but that does not mean I am going to allow myself to fall under the illusion that a single phone, made by a single company, sold exclusively by a limited number of carriers, is going to carry industry dominant marketshare - ever. Especially not when competitors are already offering comparable and/or superior devices into the same marketplace. I cant believe they pay these analysts to say the bullshit that they say. And they wonder why the economy is in such a wreck now. Too many dickwads getting paid too much money to give everyone bad advice.
07/07/09
Apple sell one phone. That's it. One. If you like your phones in a shape or size other than "brick-with-no-buttons" - which is the vast majority of the wider handset market - then you don't go with Apple.
Apple would need a hell of a lot more variety in their lineup to overtake Nokia.
07/07/09
07/07/09
Let me apologize for all the people who enjoy their 3 day long battery life and just text and call. I sincerely apologize on behalf of all us degenerates.
07/07/09
I'm sure your phone is perfectly good at making calls. Maybe even great. Most certainly better than my smart phone is. It's just not very capable when it comes to doing anything else. It can't handle the complicated problems. We love it anyway. Just the way it is. It's just kind of dumb.
07/07/09
07/07/09
There is going to be a market for dumb phones for quite a while, so don't hold your breath.
But seriously, I like the build quality of dumb phones. You can drop them bastards two ways to Sunday. They don't require much charging (I like to starve mine), and they make some great replacement rocks.
@94 Impala: Yeah, my phone is great. You best believe it. Sure, it may be a bastard phone, but like I said, it gets the job done.
Yes, I mispelled your name on purpose. I'm that bad. Dare insult my phone again Mr. Ferrari. I dare ya.
07/07/09
07/07/09
I think so few users do this because they don't have a data plan and are afraid of the charges, and more importantly because marketing has fooled them into thinking they have to get a smartphone to do more than phoning/photos/texting. And some people are genuinely clueless about their phone, I've shown them how to play music off its SD card and their eyes glaze over.
07/08/09
06/30/09
See the chasm; take a leap; reap the rewards on the other side.
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06/05/09
Here's my first draft at Apple analysis:
With the iPhone Apple as ben verysuccessful bcause theymade a phone that people wan to use and liek to use. If they can keep this up they will kick some ass!
OK- what do you think?
06/05/09
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06/05/09
If I keep commenting on Gizmodo instead of working, I will run into problems.
06/05/09
I can only hope that he uses that line in other sectors.
If GM starts making cars people don't want, and starts losing buyers, then GM's strategy will run into problems.
If Madonna starts making albums people don't want, and starts losing listeners, then her strategy will run into problems.
If the GOP starts promoting political positions people don't want, and starts losing voters, then the Republicans' strategy will run into problems.
If the Church starts making dogma that people don't want, and starts losing worshippers, then the Church's strategy will run into problems.
06/05/09
Oh, wait, the number of followers I have doesn't make me money.
06/05/09
PS
GM has been doing it for years now.
06/05/09
Not funny.
06/05/09
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06/05/09
You're totally off base guy, and I saw no such thing.
06/05/09
These are extraordinarily shallow observations. There is no insight to any of it. That quote, though, took the cake because it is so generic and so basic. If you make things and people want to buy them, then you will not succeed.
This isn't snarking. It's getting caught trying to foist pablum as something remotely insightful.
06/05/09
You know what is douchebaggery, though? Posting insulting comments about an editor's writing style on a free blog as if you were somehow cheated of the money you paid to visit the site.
06/05/09
"Apple has had a nice rally because they put up very strong numbers, and at the end of the day it will still be all about numbers."
Yes, Apple's stock has performed well because Apple's products have sold well. And, investors like to invest in companies whose products sell well.
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06/05/09
I'M A BALLIPEDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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06/05/09
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12/19/08
I just picked up a 19" HD LCD for my den and will be getting a 26" HD LCD for the bedroom really soon.
(Our current 1992 Magnetbox 27" is only going to be fixed by banging on the top of it but so may times before it craps out altogether.)
The only bad part is that I watch more television now.
12/19/08
Any suggestions in the $1000-$1500 price range for an LCD?
12/19/08
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12/19/08
Of course, the TV stand weighs 75 pounds because it's made from hardwood, not pressboard, so that it will support a 200 lb. TV.