{"id":769,"date":"2007-10-08T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2007-10-08T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T07:54:00","slug":"putting-some-perspective-on-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"Putting some perspective on iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iPhone\"<\/a>Have recent missteps by Apple opened the door for a competitor in the cool-phone sweepstakes?<\/p>\n

With a pun-intended headline, Apple getting a seedy image<\/span>, The Chicago Sun-Times carried a story<\/a> last week calling the iPhone “the Lindsay Lohan of technology.”<\/p>\n

What did Apple do to deserve such a moniker? It rendered useless phones that had been hacked to release the AT&T; SIM lock and at the same time, it killed third-party applications that were developed for the device.<\/p>\n

\"LG<\/a>Last week, it also happened that Verizon released<\/a> its line-up of new devices for Christmas, including two touch screen devices from LG, the Venus and Voyager. The Voyager appears to have incorporated some of the iPhone “look” but it adds a supplementary QWERTY keyboard and it accepts micro-SD supplementary storage.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/a> wrote about the trendiness of handsets – making a fashion statement with your cell-phone. Apple iPhone pricing is creating a discontinuity, possibly allowing carriers south of the border to decrease their up-front subsidies if the demand is sufficient for the device itself.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, the price of the iPhone, coupled with Apple’s arrogance and disdain for open third party applications may open a crack in the market for alternate providers of cool devices. I’m not talking about a device that has to settle for “just as good as a Xerox” status. I’m looking for one that looks at the shortcomings of the iPhone and blows right past.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong – the window of opportunity hasn’t been opened wide, but it seems to me that there is a sliver, a space in the market for other participants to elbow aside Apple’s impersonations of one of these Hollywood starlets with more money than common sense.<\/p>\n

Much has been made of Apple’s success in selling 1 million units<\/a> in its first 74 days. It was a remarkable product launch. Still, some perspective is required. For example, Nokia sells<\/a> more than a million phones every day. There will be about a billion phones sold in the world this year – Apple hopes to achieve about 1% share. Isn’t it possible that some other device manufacturer can afford to assign some R&D; and industrial design to achieve the elusive cool factor?<\/p>\n

We’re coming into the season that should be most determinant in bonus payments in the wireless industry. Historically, the Canadian wireless market sees about 40% of the year’s net additions in the 4th quarter.<\/p>\n

What kinds of devices are going to find their way onto Santa’s gift lists?<\/p>\n

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Have recent missteps by Apple opened the door for a competitor in the cool-phone sweepstakes? With a pun-intended headline, Apple getting a seedy image, The Chicago Sun-Times carried a story last week calling the iPhone “the Lindsay Lohan of technology.” What did Apple do to deserve such a moniker? It rendered useless phones that had …<\/p>\n

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