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By: Before the iPhone Came Along

Before the iPhone Came Along — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:14:19 +0000

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Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:37:55 +0000

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By: b

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:02:17 +0000

It’s true that iPhone revolutionized the industry in terms of mass appeal, power and numbers, but a lot of your technological advances were already available on the market in the form of Palm and other smart phones. iOS was a new take when it came out and, like all operating systems, it did some things better and others not. Like #9, phones should still be phones first. This is not a boasting point ( but I suppose it could be said to illustrate your point too.) as many people complain that iPhones drop calls all the time. There were also at least a few phones with developer communities and app stores already.

What Apple did well was to take pieces of all of these and package them nicely. They also piggy-backed on the success of the already popular iPod. I remember thinking, “That’s just an Ipod with a phone.” People were already comfortable with it, so Apple had already created the emotional connection. That’s just smart marketing.

While the hardware and software were and are good, they’re not great. The genius, as I said, was in the marketing strategy.

The only thing I object to about it is that Jobs came out talking like he’d created the first ever smartphone. The strange thing is, people believed it.

By: Readings + Reactions for 2.3.11 « Mobile Journalism: Spring 2011

Readings + Reactions for 2.3.11 « Mobile Journalism: Spring 2011 — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:30:16 +0000

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By: Mister Snitch

Mister Snitch — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:57:03 +0000

Great article, with great insight into the minds (so to speak) of the haters.

By: Scruff

Scruff — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:12:38 +0000

As a young person living in Australia, the only people who I know that use prepaid are my parents. Not a single friend or relative has bought their phone outright.

By: Scruff

Scruff — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:52:42 +0000

1) Developers don’t always need to sell to large numbers of people to make money. If you have a large install base, your support/infrastructure costs go up.

2) You’re forgetting the sheer number of Windows developers. Sure, you can target 10x more windows desktops as you state, but you are competing against 100x more developers/products on Windows than you are on the Mac or Linux.

By: Scruff

Scruff — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:05:55 +0000

MacOSX is not a “walled garden” as you state. You can install whatever you want, whenever you want, from whereever you want. You can even run Linux apps if you don’t mind compiling from sources (or use fink or some other ilk). Apple has NO control over what you install on your Mac. Hell, you can run Windows apps if you use wine or parallels or fusion.

Don’t spread tripe like this. IOS is walled, yes, but OSX is not.

By: Michele c

Michele c — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:43:00 +0000

Yes, get your facts right. The iPhone OS is a derivative of BSD Unix, the Unix, made at the University of Berkeley, which was open source long before a student decided to hack Minix to prove a concept.

By: Michele c

Michele c — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:38:14 +0000

And doll sized WAP pages should have been all what we could dream of …