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Is the next-gen iPhone release enough to ensure Apple’s smartphone market dominance? |
johnjohndoe
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I just came across an interesting article on the new iPhone, and thought you guys might want to take a read...what do you think? Will apple continue to reign supreme? | |
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coolharsh55
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read the article again....
rumoured...........and speculations....
still it wont be good enough to capture the smartphone market...
it doeant have best emails, not best camera, norbest music intrerface...
it'll be the continued hit, with lots of
people buying it, but it wont be at top.
humour is what makes me laugh...
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se_love
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Oh its coming. Chinese wholesellers have parts for it:
http://gizmodo.com/5271696/ne[....]revealed-by-chinese-wholesaler
And its rumored to have a matte finish on the back
http://gizmodo.com/5272909/po[....]09-compared-to-shiny-iphone-3g
So who knows. Is it enough? Hard to say. 3.2 is pretty low. Sure it might have video recording but still pretty low. We will have to see where it goes. |
SloopJohnB
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Apple used to base iphone's success on its interface, itunes/ipod and then also the apps. The problem is the interface won't be an apple-exclusive with other phones with multi-touch and easy UI coming to the market. The iPod is a great app but that won't make most people buy it instead of another smartphone. What's left is the app store. Apple is probably going to invest a lot on mobile OS development, work with partners and etc and that way people will buy the iphone because of the apps available. The iphone won't be the phone with the best cam, more memory and etc, but it will have the most apps, probably the best mobile apps on the market and a very easy way of getting them. It will be a funny thing if this happens because the iphone will have dominance because of the number of apps and not the quality/features of the OS, it'll be like the iphone OS is becoming the windows OS of the mobile market. LOL
I have an iphone 3g and I would only consider maybe the Pre to be my phone but that depends on the apps available and how the phone performs and if it works well with Mac OS. |
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The iphone did not introduce new technology when it was revealed. What made it so popular where the interface, the itunes to capture existing users and the apps. Same with a videogame machine. Not the best hardware wins, but the one with the most/best software titles.
So that will be the strong points of the iphone and I have to admit it is a good strategy.
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S4k1s
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Apple’s smartphone market dominance dominance??? Worldwide: Smartphone Sales to End Users by Vendor, 2008 (Thousands of Units) | | Market | | Market | | | | Share | | Share | Growth | | Company | 2008 Sales | 2008 (%) | 2007 Sales | 2007 (%) | 2007-2008 (%) | | Nokia | 60,920.5 | 43.7 | 60,465.0 | 49.4 | 0.8 | | Research In Motion | 23,149.0 | 16.6 | 11,767.7 | 9.6 | 96.7 | | Apple | 11,417.5 | 8.2 | 3,302.6 | 2.7 | 245.7 | | HTC | 5,895.4 | 4.2 | 3,718.5 | 3.0 | 58.5 | | Sharp | 5,234.2 | 3.8 | 6,885.3 | 5.6 | -24.0 | | Others | 32,671.4 | 23.5 | 36,176.6 | 29.6 | -9.7 | | Total | 139,287.9 | 100.0 | 122,315.6 | 100.0 | 13.9 |
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SloopJohnB
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Dominance because apple jumped from a share of 2.7 to 8.2 in one year and it did it with ONE model and NOT a cheap one. Plus the development for iphone OS is huge and it's still growing. The other companies hasn't release a phone that got the same 'attention' and 'mindshare' of the iphone yet, so apple's share of the market will likely continue to grow. You have to put things in perspective when analysing data like that. |
Dups!
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The novelty of the UI of the Iphone will wear off after this 'new' Iphone. It will sell but not as much as the 2 previous iterations. After this I see the Iphone being just another phone among many. Apple did extremely well in coming up with such a wonderful touch UI but that's where it ends after the release of the upcoming rendition. |
se_love
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Mr blurrycam?
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se_love
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http://gizmodo.com/5273348/fi[....]look-very-real-to-me#c13209590
So yeah seems legit new Iphone for 2009. I wonder what it will be like. |
johnjohndoe
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I think this is the key issue of the matter as SloopJohnB said "The other companies hasn't release a phone that got the same 'attention' and 'mindshare' of the iphone yet"
It's the success of Apple in grabbing the collective consciousness and desire of consumers in the smartphone market that has been most impressive and will, above all else, carry the next iPhone through, at least the next iteration...but as EMS06 said I can see that customers enthusiasm for the iPhone will likely wane if no new features are introduced, after all, current iPhone owners are going to have access to the 3.0 which will provide most of the new features...
So why upgrade? A larger hard drive? Faster processor? Better camera? OLED screen? Glowing Apple logo? - I'm failing to see why I should do it....perhaps when the iPhone 4 comes round!! |
coolharsh55
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hey........... you people didnt get to realise the APPLE power or what???
they never have got the BEST things in market, but they surely have got the HOTTEST ones...
what made the iPhone a huge, and i repeat HUGE success, is that the phone was a style-statement, with superb touch interface... slim, very cliche.... and the pricing was the biggest factor for its success.... mind you, its the youth that buyed that phone, and most of them bought it even when it didnt have so many things like a great cam, some known issues like messaging, copy-cut, etc etc
no other smart-phone user has bought an iphone......
its all multimedia users who love the iphone...
i dont think apple will capture the market with just one model, the most they would do is remain at number three...
which is enough for a single model i think....
again when apple realeases v3.0, the same kind of people are gonna buy the iphone...
so it wont be a market dominance,, but it wont receive all that hype and hoolah that had the first iphone..
the iphone was all the rage because it was the rays of a new era of interface and user control...
but now its quite back, people arent all that hyped about an iphone..
sure they'll buy and all, but it isnt that hot as it used to be,
unless apple decided to just fill in so many features with a price that other companies wont be able to beat for the next five years [the true iphone did just that], then i beilive the iphone will have rejuvinated itself..
and knowing apple, if theyh do it, it wont be a surprise???
humour is what makes me laugh...
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se_love
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Only significant change it will get is a 3.2MP camera magnetic compass and some other whoolah. |
S4k1s
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On 2009-05-31 05:16:30, SloopJohnB wrote:
Dominance because apple jumped from a share of 2.7 to 8.2 in one year and it did it with ONE model and NOT a cheap one. Plus the development for iphone OS is huge and it's still growing. The other companies hasn't release a phone that got the same 'attention' and 'mindshare' of the iphone yet, so apple's share of the market will likely continue to grow. You have to put things in perspective when analysing data like that.
The perspective is you failed your point with this post since Nokia is the one dominating the SP-market. The OP failed also because the URL clearly shows who is nr 1. It's like in the PC market, Mac can grow with 4000% and still be nothing compared to Windows Dominance. Don't confuse growth with market share.
No one claimed that iPod is not a success -because it is a huge one. Just that Apple is not dominating tha smartphone market ;] |
anonymuser
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Apple is completely dominant in the smartphone market right now because it's produced a device, and an OS that people actually love to use and develop for. 1 billion app downloads in less than a year don't lie.
Let's be honest here, S60 is top of the list above because Nokia sell a lot of phones, and they happen to use S60 as the base for many if not most of them - it's been that way for many years. Want a Nokia phone with the best camera? Whoops, you just bought S60 and you didn't even know it. Are you going to start buying lots of S60 apps now? No, of course you aren't. Aside from a minority of phone geeks in places like this, nobody ever bought an S60 phone because it was S60, they bought it for the features and the UI and OS were entirely secondary - why not, when the UI is essentially S40 with bells on anyway?
In second place you have RIM, the corporate favourite. They deserve to be there, they've made the enterprise space theirs by making mobile business email easy for employees and it managers alike, but let's not pretend that the majority of those blackberry users don't have their phone for work, not play. It's a shackle that's been issued to them by the company, not something they've chosen, or would choose to make more use of.
So then in third place we have Apple, only its users have not only chosen the phone/device themselves, they're also using that smartphone OS. they're downloading apps, writing their own apps, and generally extending their phone's functionality endlessly. User satisfaction surveys place the iphone tops, app sales and development are through the roof, and they're only two years and two nearly identical models in. Tell me again who's dominant in the smartphone market?
The next model will be a winner partly because of the feature improvements (expect video recording to be heavily marketed) and partly because the new OS3 will plug many of the percieved feature gaps that have kept some away. But mostly it will be a success because of the ever improving apps that will become even stronger over the coming year, as developers make use of the new SDK. And the fact that so much of this will still be available to existing users through the OS update for current iphone's is just another of the massive strengths of the platform.
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