CNN Interviewee: Apple Knows What I Want Before I Do

[Capt Caveman]

Sorry but I'd rather not have a phone that tells me how many programs I can run at one time and forces me to buy expensive add-ons to help battery life since I can't have a spare. Having to void the warranty to get the basic functionality that many other phones have is not a feature to me.

$9.21 is expensive? http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10831&cs_id=1083110&p_id=5867&seq=1&format=2

 

[Deeko]

ugh theres regular criticism and theres apple hatred. i think you are blinded by the later. before the iphone "smartphones" were like a theoretical "good idea". in that you could see how it would be nice to have one if it worked, but none of the junk on the market justified its price outside a very small niche of buyers. remember how long microsoft o/s "smartphones" existed on the market? oh ..you dont do you!! because they were such a freakin non factor and irrelevant like the rest. iphone sales have skyrocketed, there is no arguing about it.

Sure, there were Pocket PC based phones way back in...2002 I believe, about the same time there were the earliest Palm phones, along with things like the Nokia Communicator. And the Palm/Windows Mobile/Blackberry market for business users was, and still is, quite large, iPhone aside.

I disagree with the earlier poster that they are taking Palm marketshare - what Apple did was to create a new type of smartphone customer. They took the existing model and modified it to cater to the non-business consumer. However, sales of Blackberry have never been higher, Windows Mobile has seen a dip in marketshare but they are still very big in the business world, despite the fact that neither of their models drastically changed with the iPhone. Blackberry's bestselling phones are the Curve and Pearl - want to tell me what cues they took from Apple in those phones?

 

[zerocool84]

$9.21 is expensive? http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10831&cs_id=1083110&p_id=5867&seq=1&format=2

It sticks out a lot which is lame. That thing looks like it's half the size of the iPhone. Sorry but that's no replacement for a user replaceable battery. All the expensive ones are the ones that actually wrap around the iPhone to at least keep a similar form factor.

 

[BeauJangles]

Blackberry Storm, anyone?

The storm is a piece of shit, but can you blame RIM for trying to come out with a phone that catered to the current flavor of the week in cell phones? The storm IS a good example of a copycat device, but it's a poor example of a company that has simply sucked Apple's balls and followed their lead. RIM makes their money on phones that are very different from anything Apple puts out and they absolutely dominate the smartphone market.

My point is simply that now that Apple has put out a touchscreen phone, everyone must be copying them when they also put out a phone with touchscreens. The Droid is a great example. You call it an iPhone clone, but in reality it has a lot of things that differentiate it from the iPhone, including a keyboard.

oh well, I guess you're right. Apple is the best and no other company in the world can possibly think of the brilliant and earth shattering products they launch every year.

 

[idiotekniQues]

anyone comparing the droid to an iphone is a bit off. there is a fundamental difference that goes way beyond hardware differences like a keyboard.

we are talking about a totally closed, shut-down OS environment of iPhone vs an open platform OS that the droid runs on.

that is fundamental and huge. guess what is better, closed or open platforms.

 

[Capt Caveman]

It sticks out a lot which is lame. That thing looks like it's half the size of the iPhone. Sorry but that's no replacement for a user replaceable battery. All the expensive ones are the ones that actually wrap around the iPhone to at least keep a similar form factor.

$17.90 is expensive? http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10831&cs_id=1083110&p_id=6319&seq=1&format=2

Actually, that other battery pack is about the size of match book. And easier than having to power down your phone to replace your battery, that's lame.

So, basically your complaint about a non-replaceable battery is pretty weak.

 

[KeypoX]

Unless it isn't a tablet PC, I'm pretty sure it is, but if it isn't then its a big fucking iPhone and a fancy eBook reader.

Nail, head, you.

 

[QueBert]

anyone comparing the droid to an iphone is a bit off. there is a fundamental difference that goes way beyond hardware differences like a keyboard.

we are talking about a totally closed, shut-down OS environment of iPhone vs an open platform OS that the droid runs on.

that is fundamental and huge. guess what is better, closed or open platforms.

What's better is what has more support, I don't care if it's open or closed. Open is shit if nobody good develops for it. And while the actual OS isn't an open platform. I abolutely hate that apps for my WinMo phone can be released by whoever, whenever. I have installed apps that forced me to do a hard reset of the phone to get it working again.

The iPhone for my needs is a superior phone, I was just on Logmein fixing a clients PC, something I couldn't do on a Droid even with all the open source programmers in the world. I like closed platforms better, because it leads to less problems. Open leads to a million different kernels and apps that aren't compatible. This is why Unix will never be main stream, open platforms aren't suited for the masses, and never will be.