BlackBerry Storm Coming; Not an iPhone Killer
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Every time a new touch screen smartphone comes out, every news writer calls it “The iPhone Killer”. I assure you that the BlackBerry Storm will not even come close to infiltrating the iPhone market. You know why? Teens think the iPhone is cool. It turns out that 8% of US teens already own an iPhone, and 22% want one. You won’t see demand like this from America’s youth for any BlackBerry product. It may appeal to some in the business world, but it won’t grab the mass appeal that Apple products often achieve.
Look at the music player market. There are many other devices that are better than iPod, but iPod still is the king. Steve Wozniak has come out and said that the iPod is dying because their products are so locked down. Apple keeps innovating though and is way ahead of everybody else. They seem to be welcoming a more open world as well. Only time will tell if they can sustain it.
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Mohammad
November 5th, 2008
at 9:15am
I don’t care what american teens want or wish to have.
As a business user I want a smartphone using which I can (with high responsiveness) access my emails. I don’t want my iphone crashes all the time when switching between 2G and 3G and I want to see my office attachements (word/excel/ppt) and I want be able to use realplayer on my phone without hacking my phone and I want to easily read my PDF files.
Rohit Akhauri
November 23rd, 2008
at 1:37pm
I am not sure if Mohammad has ever owned an iPhone. On iPhone you can, not only see the MS office files buy you can also create Spreadsheet. You have access to your desktop also. You can easily view PDF files and google documents. No other phone can ever do even half of what iPhone can do.
I bought iPhone on the first day of its launch and loving it.