Comments on: Who can beat iPhone 2.0?

By: iPhone OS 3: The moat strategy vs. features-fetishism « David's Blog

iPhone OS 3: The moat strategy vs. features-fetishism « David's Blog — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:23:33 +0000

[...] the virtuous cycle to kick in and the moat strategy to reveal just how difficult it will be to compete against Apple’s touch platform, thereby ushering in consolidation in the rest of the smartphone [...]

By: iPhones betydelse för mobilbranschen – och Apples chanser « inUseful: Användbarhet, interaktionsdesign & effektstyrning

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:57:47 +0000

[...] Who can beat iPhone 2.0? listar bloggen Counternotions "what [Apple] uniquely brings to the battle field". Bland [...]

By: zzeed

zzeed — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:47:39 +0000

I must agree… nobody comes close. Apple is the champion in vertical integration, creating an ecosystem, while changing the rules in the industry. Competitors need to think & work a lot harder.

By: iPhone OS 3: The moat strategy vs. features-fetishism « counternotions

iPhone OS 3: The moat strategy vs. features-fetishism « counternotions — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:38:21 +0000

[...] the virtuous cycle to kick in and the moat strategy to reveal just how difficult it will be to compete with Apple’s touch platform, thereby ushering in consolidation in the rest of the smartphone [...]

By: iPhone OS 3.0: Refinement or a leap? « counternotions

iPhone OS 3.0: Refinement or a leap? « counternotions — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:10:17 +0000

[...] By creating new markets Apple enjoys the advantage of making up its own rules of the game. Ever since the introduction of the iPhone, every smartphone contender has had to battle Apple’s strengths, as we outlined a year ago in Who can beat iPhone 2.0? [...]

By: Mister Snitch

Mister Snitch — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:38:07 +0000

Great piece.

“Apple not only has the fastest growing and most profitable physical retail store chain in the U.S., it also offers…”

Since the time this was written, add WalMart. Inclusion at WalMart makes or breaks other companies. Only for Apple is this just a “nice boost”. Next earnings report we’ll start finding out just HOW nice a boost, but anecotally we already know that Apple has been selling out to the bare walls at WalMart.

By: Strategic shortcomings of Pre in the post-iPhone era « counternotions

Strategic shortcomings of Pre in the post-iPhone era « counternotions — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:46:07 +0000

[...] Jan 12, 09 In Who can beat iPhone 2.0? we explored what it would take to compete against the now-iconic device months before the 3G [...]

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:05:46 +0000

Incidentally, who cares any longer about the supposed ability of experimental psychologists to assign quotients to something as epistemologically bankrupt as “intelligence”? I.Q.? A wonderful, longlasting scam on the U.S. military and public. Are we still falling for that crap?

Trust me; I used to be a Stanford psychometrist under gov’t contract. Paris Hilton has a special intelligence for something, I suspect, and as a certified detective in such matters I’d like to find out, What.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:59:41 +0000

Well Daniel, I’d like to see it superseded, and try, with the help of blogs like this one, to keep current with emerging devices, but so far, no cigar.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:10:44 +0000

Yeah right, iPhone is the best mobile ever… and Paris Hilton has an IQ of 140… keep dreaming…