Blogs Why the iPhone was never going to flop

the only REAL competitor to the iPhone is Palm Pre and the HTC Hero android phone. any resistive touch device are so old.

but HTC Hero's CPU is same as iPhone original/3G, so buying that is like buying last year's CPU. Palm Pre has good concept, but their SDK is behind, Pre's SDK is somewhere between original iPhone's webapp and new os 2.0 without any access to hardware acceleration.

with iPhone 3GS update, its faster CPU together with large RAM. if jailbroken, it can beat Palm Pre in terms of background tasks (come on, 150MB free memory! that's 8 apps open at the same time) and have best mobile gaming capability for a smart phone.

 

Yes, agree absolutely - used a friend's Nokia N97 and was appalled by it.

Again, right on - certainly from what the reviewers say, the Hero's CPU is too slow for the custom HTC interface. I think the Pre stands a better chance against the iPhone, although as you point out, WebOS isn't ideal for games and other demanding apps which will be an issue. At the moment, there really isn't much competition for the iPhone, TBH.

 

Bloody typos. That said, I'm not editing it now as it is actually quite funny.

 

This.

It's woefully bad to an extent that I find it hard to explain in a way that will get anyone to comprehend just how much Nokia has messed up. Stupid things like putting the space bar to the right of the keypad not the centre are really frustrating.

 

Yes it's lovely for what it does. But that means succumbing to iTunes to use it. I would rather masturbate with a cheese grater than install iTunes.

And there is always custom ROM's for WinMo.
I recommend EnergyRom. Alltho the power consumption is a bit high in it after you flash. Install Yota Contacts and Fingerkeyboard and be done with it.

 

Sounds a bit like fanboyism there. Apple are really good at doing some things, but not so good at doing others (like free / open stuff, i.e. they have control over all applications and so on). Nobody can say the iPhone isn't a great handset, but look at Microsoft's angle: they produce an operating system that was designed to allow some more features that you couldn't get on a typical phone - email, outlook contacts, calendar, word, excel, internet explorer (and you could install your own programs too) and it took off, especially for people who need to be connected to their networks etc. iPhone isn't a directly competing product as when it first came out, it was significantly more expensive than most other mobile phones, had less 'features' in the sense of GPS, 3G, and so on, and had a completely different identity to a typical smart phone and appealed to a different kind of user.

Well done to Apple, it has been a massive hit, and I am really happy that other companies are starting to follow Apple's direction (this isn't a bad thing, despite people who think copying is evil - if something is successful companies should try and copy it and make it their own, this gives the consumer the greatest choice and greatest innovation).

I have the HTC TyTN II and want shot of it, but I wouldn't want an iPhone either. I want a simple phone for making calls on and texting. I've grown out of the need to have the latest toy, just happy saving money at the minute and playing pc games. In a few years when I've got a job it might be nice to get something fun to show off but for the time being I'm just using my phone as a phone.

I've said it plenty of times before but Apple's greatest asset beyond it's technical wizardry, beyond it's innovaters, beyond any of that - is it's brand. So said Steve Jobs.

"greatest bits of technology conceived by humankind"

it's a phone!

 

LOL yeah I agree, it just a god damn phone >.> And to add a bit irony on it, they were once saying that "they can't make a US$ 500 computer that isn't junk", now, how much does the iPhone costs? Maybe US$ 200? Then that would means it is junk?

IMO, most of the Apple's products is overrated, that's why they often said to have the best marketing teams in the world, because they can make an ordinary commodity to be extraordinary.