Comments on: Global myopia on iPhone features http://counternotions.com/2009/02/20/ahonen/ Musings on strategic design by Kontra, a veteran design and management surgeon, perennially in search of complex problems to operate on. Sun, 06 May 2012 13:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kontra http://counternotions.com/2009/02/20/ahonen/#comment-3341 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:20:23 +0000 http://counternotions.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-3341 Thanks.

I hereby pledge to never write again. :)

]]> By: chano http://counternotions.com/2009/02/20/ahonen/#comment-3335 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:23:16 +0000 http://counternotions.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-3335 Kontra
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or words to that effect.

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Chandra

]]> By: futurikon http://counternotions.com/2009/02/20/ahonen/#comment-3016 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:09:59 +0000 http://counternotions.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-3016 Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!

I’ve read about 5 of your articles in the past 2 hours….

Excellent perspectives you’ve got!

Cheers mate.

]]> By: juraj http://counternotions.com/2009/02/20/ahonen/#comment-2981 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:39:43 +0000 http://counternotions.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-2981 “Most mobile users in Europe and Asia wouldn’t buy a locked handset any more…”

Nope, if you look to Germany.

Cheers.

]]> By: myiphones.co.cc » Blog Archive » Global myopia on iPhone features « counternotions http://counternotions.com/2009/02/20/ahonen/#comment-2445 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:43:45 +0000 http://counternotions.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-2445 [...] is the original post: Global myopia on iPhone features « counternotions iPhone Features iPhones ahonen feb-20 fri iphone iPhone Features iPhones ipod media [...]

]]> By: Kontra http://counternotions.com/2009/02/20/ahonen/#comment-2411 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:01:47 +0000 http://counternotions.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-2411 Intosh: “Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone:”

Incidentally, that article was revealed as an awkward hit job concocted by a Wired writer who thoroughly distorted facts and statements made about the iPhone, as detailed here:

Japanese “hate” for iPhone all a big mistake

]]> By: Kontra http://counternotions.com/2009/02/20/ahonen/#comment-2404 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:24:03 +0000 http://counternotions.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-2404 Intosh: “App stores will be THE important battleground of smartphones in the next year or two but right now, it is not a decisive factor.”

20,000 apps, nearly a billion downloads later iPhone users beg to differ, so too every other smartphone manufacturer trampling over each other to mimic the Apple App Store. You really think the world is waiting for Nokia’s or Samsung’s app store to open?

“…the iPhone is lacking and this explains why it’s not selling in countries with sophisticated users, such as Japan.”

So you’ve reduced this all to a “cultural” bias, since these “sophisticated” Japanese smartphones don’t sell well at all in the U.S. What’s next, some Scandinavian person claiming that Americans are not “sophisticated” enough to appreciate Nokia smartphones?

]]> By: Intosh http://counternotions.com/2009/02/20/ahonen/#comment-2385 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:52:00 +0000 http://counternotions.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-2385 Sure the App Store is important and more so in the future. But it is not the main reason why people bought the iPhone in the first place. App stores will be THE important battleground of smartphones in the next year or two but right now, it is not a decisive factor. Besides, most of the features/apps you are likely to use the most (emails, IM, SMS, web browsing, multimedia, etc) on your smartphone are supposed to be built-in. In fact, a recent report that came out revealed that most users (I don’t remember the numbers) stopped using the apps they bough or downloaded from the iPhone App Store.

Currently, people still consider what the phone can do out-of-the-box (whether it’s features, usability, UI, etc.) as the main factor in their smartphone purchasing decision. And when it comes to built-in features, the iPhone is lacking and this explains why it’s not selling in countries with sophisticated users, such as Japan.

Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/why-the-iphone.html

]]> By: Nick http://counternotions.com/2009/02/20/ahonen/#comment-2359 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:33:58 +0000 http://counternotions.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-2359 JDT – note that the iPhone uses the same European/worldwide RF standard GSM with the 3G upgrades. So, in some sense they are competing on European terms, not just being American interlopers.

]]> By: KenC http://counternotions.com/2009/02/20/ahonen/#comment-2358 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:15:53 +0000 http://counternotions.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-2358 “And then – I am very sad to point out – the Apple top management is of course based in America, the backwaters of mobile telecoms, so they tend to hold outdated views on many things, which means that the “stubborn” view of “we know better at Apple what end-users want” may indeed be relevant to the US market, but grossly misunderstand the opportunities in the more advanced markets, starting with Japan and South Korea and Scandinavia et”

That quote made me laugh! Ahonen needs to look in the mirror, because his 16,000 word diatribe sounds like it is basically telling Apple that he knows better. Do you think he wrote an article critical of Nokia now that it is pulling out of the advanced market of Japan? How can its advanced superduper swiss army knife of a phone the N9x series fail there?!?

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