View Single Post
Old 07-21-2010, 12:58 PM   #41
nick101
Groupie
nick101 can extract oil from cheesenick101 can extract oil from cheesenick101 can extract oil from cheesenick101 can extract oil from cheesenick101 can extract oil from cheesenick101 can extract oil from cheesenick101 can extract oil from cheesenick101 can extract oil from cheesenick101 can extract oil from cheese
 
nick101's Avatar
 
Posts: 190
Karma: 1248
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Milton Keynes UK
Device: Sony PRS-600 Touch, iPhone
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi 1080 View Post
Well, ... the part about Apple wasn't too much of a stretch to assume even back then. Apple has always been leading in terms of industrial design and user interfaces, and always had many copycats tailing it. Microsoft’s situation isn't surprising, either. Lack of innovation, missmanagement, pride.

Nokia on the other hand is kinda surprising, because they f’cked up worse than anyone would have predicted. Their reaction to Apple entering the arena was basically knocking themselves out. And seeing their plans for Symbian 4 AND MeeGo, I don't think that's gonna change anytime soon.
I don't mean to sound rude, but isn't there a bit of wisdom after the event in here?

When the iPhone was launched, it was fairly clear that it would be a decent success, for the reasons you've described. But I don't recall it was clear that it would be a game-changer, as it has turned out to be.

No hardware keyboard - fail! No 3G - fail! No copy/paste, MMS, Exchange email - fail!! And how can you expect to succeed with a browser that doesn't even support Flash?

We know now that none of that counted for much against the fact that this was the first genuinely usable smartphone and we also know that since then every rival has been judging their own products against the iPhone. Let's face it, Android is pretty much a re-engineered iPhone OS.

But, if we're honest with ourselves, we didn't *know* that would happen 3 years ago.

But that's just my opinion which isn't worth much to anyone except me
nick101 is offline   Reply With Quote