fastcompany.com— "Apple's latest creation is unlikely to dominate the cell phone market the way the iPod has impacted the digital music market."
May 22, 2007View in Crawl 4
"if you can dial a smartphone using a qwerty thumbpad without looking at it, congrats. I can't and I doubt very seriously most people can."Seriously, how hard is it? The buttons are smaller than on a regular phone, but it's just not that hard to dial. At worst you have to take a quick glance to see where the first number is. If you're on 1 and the next number's a 9 you move over two and down two. Hell, the next smartphone I'm going to be getting (Samsung SCH-i760) is a slider and has a full numeric keypad on the outside just like a regular phone.
axemachine, lol. 1% of the global cellphone market is pretty good for a single product. I think they'll take a nice, profitable percentage of the high end, data-centric/style market. Which is where the money is. Why f**k around with the low end giveaway phone market?
"They also have the ability to bring out new devices within months to the US market that would blow the iPhone off the cliff."And flag564 continues his insane anti-Apple ranting. You are the most FOS poster on digg, dude.There is no way that any other manufacturer is going to be able to come close to the iPhone for at least two years. There'll be phones that do much the same thing (as there already are), and there will be poor knockoffs like the LG Prada, which look similar but don't really work the same way. Trolls like you will try to engage in feature counting to "prove" that the iPhone has been bettered.The truth is that the iPhone's multi touch interface is light years ahead of anything else on the market. I have one of Samsung's latest smartphones. It does most of the things the iPhone does, but it might as well be steam powered for all that.There's no consumer electronics company that is as good as Apple at designing simple and cool user interfaces that anyone can learn in a couple of minutes. There just isn't. Microsoft has been trying to rip off the Mac for 20 years and they still can't get it right. Dozens of manufacturers have been trying to come up with a product as simple as the iPod, and they have so far failed.Everything points to the iPhone being a success. Enjoy wallowing in your bile.
@ thekorn2You dont use any mac products, do you?Their motto is "get rid of unncecessary crap features that gum up the product."the beauty and simplicity of a product should be valued, not scoffed at. you dont appreciate the aesthetics of good design, and its no surprise. you probably use Windows, which we all know copied the fundamentals of what was originally the Mac GUI. computing made easier is not some great insult to the user. it liberates the user. macs are useful for the "retards" just as they are useful for professionals. the key here is their marketing strategies are aimed at a wider audience.what's smarter? the product with a large audience of all walks of life and some with no experience?or the product with 50 buttons and a 100-page user manual?apple is a hell of a lot smarter, but since you only think in terms of number of features and buttons, you cant see this.
I can see many high school kids asking their mom and daddy for an iPhone.With these kids it has nothing to do with features or whatever for them it's about image.I sometimes see kids around here with a 60 gb Ipod or something and then they have like 10 songs on them(no pics vids whatever).For example I just bought a good deal.... 2gb Creative V Zen Plus... the thing works great and has enough space is tiny and supports video like divx, avi, mpeg, etc... all for just freakin 60 bucks!Try to come up with that Apple... If you make such a thing for that price I will think about buying a product from you.
lol what mcdonald's are you referring to? If McDonalds will pay me enough cash in one weekend to buy a 500 dollar phone, where do i sign up?! considering 2 days = sat and sun, hey we'll even give you friday, working 3, eight hour days, would mean mcdonalds would ahve to pay you over 20 an hour, then tax comes out, to even have the cash for it. you're on drugs buddy.there were many things disturbing about your post. i'm an apple fan, by far, but i still know that not every teenager and tech geek will go out and buy one. it's a LOT of cash to shell out for a phone. and honestly , unless mommy and daddy are paying, i don't know many teens who are willing or even have the resources to pay for them on their own. unless they all work at these wonderful mcdonalds you speak of.
ummm hmmm...every campus i have been on, in libraries, wherever, i still see people with iPods. almost everywhere i go, there's someone that either has one out, or has the white headphones around their neck. yeah, the fad is over. dumbass.
Once the analysts stop calling it another cell phone and start calling it an Internet connection appliance, they will probably stop calling it a failure.
ethergnatMay 23, 2007
"if you can dial a smartphone using a qwerty thumbpad without looking at it, congrats. I can't and I doubt very seriously most people can."Seriously, how hard is it? The buttons are smaller than on a regular phone, but it's just not that hard to dial. At worst you have to take a quick glance to see where the first number is. If you're on 1 and the next number's a 9 you move over two and down two. Hell, the next smartphone I'm going to be getting (Samsung SCH-i760) is a slider and has a full numeric keypad on the outside just like a regular phone.
Closed AccountMay 23, 2007
axemachine, lol. 1% of the global cellphone market is pretty good for a single product. I think they'll take a nice, profitable percentage of the high end, data-centric/style market. Which is where the money is. Why f**k around with the low end giveaway phone market?
aggamanMay 23, 2007
"They also have the ability to bring out new devices within months to the US market that would blow the iPhone off the cliff."And flag564 continues his insane anti-Apple ranting. You are the most FOS poster on digg, dude.There is no way that any other manufacturer is going to be able to come close to the iPhone for at least two years. There'll be phones that do much the same thing (as there already are), and there will be poor knockoffs like the LG Prada, which look similar but don't really work the same way. Trolls like you will try to engage in feature counting to "prove" that the iPhone has been bettered.The truth is that the iPhone's multi touch interface is light years ahead of anything else on the market. I have one of Samsung's latest smartphones. It does most of the things the iPhone does, but it might as well be steam powered for all that.There's no consumer electronics company that is as good as Apple at designing simple and cool user interfaces that anyone can learn in a couple of minutes. There just isn't. Microsoft has been trying to rip off the Mac for 20 years and they still can't get it right. Dozens of manufacturers have been trying to come up with a product as simple as the iPod, and they have so far failed.Everything points to the iPhone being a success. Enjoy wallowing in your bile.
ophelloMay 23, 2007
@ thekorn2You dont use any mac products, do you?Their motto is "get rid of unncecessary crap features that gum up the product."the beauty and simplicity of a product should be valued, not scoffed at. you dont appreciate the aesthetics of good design, and its no surprise. you probably use Windows, which we all know copied the fundamentals of what was originally the Mac GUI. computing made easier is not some great insult to the user. it liberates the user. macs are useful for the "retards" just as they are useful for professionals. the key here is their marketing strategies are aimed at a wider audience.what's smarter? the product with a large audience of all walks of life and some with no experience?or the product with 50 buttons and a 100-page user manual?apple is a hell of a lot smarter, but since you only think in terms of number of features and buttons, you cant see this.
srudes2May 23, 2007
I can see many high school kids asking their mom and daddy for an iPhone.With these kids it has nothing to do with features or whatever for them it's about image.I sometimes see kids around here with a 60 gb Ipod or something and then they have like 10 songs on them(no pics vids whatever).For example I just bought a good deal.... 2gb Creative V Zen Plus... the thing works great and has enough space is tiny and supports video like divx, avi, mpeg, etc... all for just freakin 60 bucks!Try to come up with that Apple... If you make such a thing for that price I will think about buying a product from you.
chileangodMay 23, 2007
Damn i hate slideshows on websites.
allers31485May 25, 2007
lol what mcdonald's are you referring to? If McDonalds will pay me enough cash in one weekend to buy a 500 dollar phone, where do i sign up?! considering 2 days = sat and sun, hey we'll even give you friday, working 3, eight hour days, would mean mcdonalds would ahve to pay you over 20 an hour, then tax comes out, to even have the cash for it. you're on drugs buddy.there were many things disturbing about your post. i'm an apple fan, by far, but i still know that not every teenager and tech geek will go out and buy one. it's a LOT of cash to shell out for a phone. and honestly , unless mommy and daddy are paying, i don't know many teens who are willing or even have the resources to pay for them on their own. unless they all work at these wonderful mcdonalds you speak of.
allers31485May 25, 2007
ummm hmmm...every campus i have been on, in libraries, wherever, i still see people with iPods. almost everywhere i go, there's someone that either has one out, or has the white headphones around their neck. yeah, the fad is over. dumbass.
smittingMay 28, 2007
Once the analysts stop calling it another cell phone and start calling it an Internet connection appliance, they will probably stop calling it a failure.