Daily question: RIM Flip vs. iPhone
Fri, Sep 12, 08
If Flip is the answer to the iPhone what was the question?
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Sun, Sep 14, 08 at 1:19 PM
Berend: “any new phone is assessed for its potential as an iPhone-killer”
Excellent observation. Instead of getting perpetually fractured, markets usually coalesce around 1-3 products. If all competitors will define their product against one specific one (like they did with the iPod) it’ll only solidify its market pulling power.
Sun, Sep 14, 08 at 11:07 AM
Today apparently any new phone is assessed for its potential as an iPhone-killer. Which, in the end, only proves the power of Apple’s market intrusion.
Sun, Sep 14, 08 at 9:40 AM
Actually, the most popular mobile web browser on the market is Opera Mini — it already has tens of millions of users, more than the number of total iPhones sold to date.
Sat, Sep 13, 08 at 12:14 PM
If that phone does well as a Blackberry despite the small screen, it’s pretty clearly not the phone that people are buying, but the software (i.e. email client + RIM push service).
If it’s about the software, then who can really touch the iPhone?
Can any flip phone with that small of a screen browse the web? Or play games? Or not suck at browsing music? Buying music? Viewing photos? etc.
Sat, Sep 13, 08 at 10:48 AM
I actually think the Pearl Flip looks great, and would do very well in Japan if it only had 3G: http://tinyurl.com/47psv2
Sat, Sep 13, 08 at 6:34 AM
A thing of beauty the sucessor to the Pearl is not..